{"id":25353,"date":"2014-11-01T05:39:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=25353"},"modified":"2016-11-08T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T20:39:20","slug":"various-sundry-12-early-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/various-sundry-12-early-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Various &#038; Sundry #12 &#8211; Early November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a key to acronyms I use? Check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/about\/artquiltmaker-glossary\/\" target=\"_blank\">AQ Glossary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My camera broke a few weeks ago, thus the weird photos I have been posting. I haven&#8217;t bought a new one yet, but am planning to do so. It is kind of a pain, because I wasn&#8217;t planning on learning something new just now. I had a good rhythm with my old camera and liked the photos it produced. I guess we don&#8217;t get to choose these things. I&#8217;ll probably borrow my son&#8217;s camera for awhile since I would like to figure out what I want and try some out. I don&#8217;t want to rush into a purchase. What kind of camera do you have?<\/p>\n<p>Results of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quilts.com\/announcements\/y2014\/QIA_survey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2014 Quilting in America<\/a> survey, the 7th conducted since 1994, were announced at Quilt Market. Some key highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quiltmakers in the US spent $3.76 <em>billion<\/em> on their passion<\/li>\n<li>1 out of every 20 Americans makes quilts, though there was a decrease<\/li>\n<li>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"762.00104\" data-angle=\"0\" data-font-name=\"g_font_3\">\u201cDedicated Quilters\u201d (spend more than $500 per year-how many of YOU qualify?) represent 12.2% of all quilting households, and account for 60.4%<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"704.78808\" data-angle=\"0\" data-font-name=\"g_font_3\">of the total industry expenditures, or about $2.27 billion<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CHA, the Craft &amp; Hobby Association, has a new <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/pDotP-17K%20\" target=\"_blank\">Blogger membership<\/a>. This should make it a lot more affordable to attend, however there are some limitations. The blog post says &#8220;The criteria for membership were established to attract established bloggers that do this as a business versus individuals who\u00a0are blogging to support their love for crafting.&#8221; I know that many of you qualify, so go to the show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Products, Thread and Fabric<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Need help matching thread and fabric? PlayCrafts has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.play-crafts.com\/blog\/work-in-programming-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\">new app<\/a> out just for that. Now you can match your Kona solids to your Aurifil.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Miller has something in the works for Janome Sewing machines and their fabric. They put up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10152328318990213\" target=\"_blank\">sneak peek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25550\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25550\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PatagoniaQuilt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PatagoniaQuilt-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Patagonia Quilt\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PatagoniaQuilt-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PatagoniaQuilt.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patagonia Quilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Patagonia, the outerwear maker has a cool Twitter feed (@patagonia). It is not just filled with &#8216;buy this&#8217; and &#8220;look at how awesome we are&#8221;. They are awesome, because they engage with their readers in their area of expertise. They have beautiful pictures of nature, they show recycled and upcycled products, including a quilt made from old down jackets. I never knew what happened to those down jackets that no longer fit or &#8230;. whatever. Now I know one thing. My dad would love this! I was alerted to Patagonia&#8217;s down recycling project and went on to read a <a href=\"http:\/\/alabamachanin.com\/journal\/2014\/09\/patagonia-at-alabama-chanin-truth-to-materials\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/alabamachanin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama Chanin<\/a>, which tells more about Patagonia&#8217;s relationship with their garment during the entire life cycle of the garment. There is a video that talks about one aspect of the project. This is such a novel and exciting concept. It really makes me want to buy Patagonia products.<\/p>\n<p>Red Pepper Quilts does a Sunday Stash Report and recently she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redpepperquilts.com\/2014\/10\/mimosa-by-another-point-of-view.html\" target=\"_blank\">posted about Mimosa by Another Point of View<\/a>. I thought that I really liked the fabric when I saw a little sliver in a picture of a stack, but I drew back, because a little sliver is a lot different than an 10&#8243;x10&#8243; or half yard piece. She posted larger pieces of the blue colorway and I definitely like them.\u00a0 I am not so sure about the red colorway. I also noticed that a couple of the prints look a LOT like Some Denyse Schmidt prints from Flea Market Fancy. Hhhmmm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Artists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you seen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carolewool\/status\/523523431439282176\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Carol Wool&#8217;s quilt<\/a> from her Gwen Marston class? Don&#8217;t those stars look like <a title=\"Women\u2019s Work\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/womens-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women&#8217;s Work<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>What about Charolotte&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theslightlymadquiltlady.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/the-comfort-of-stitching.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scrapitude blocks<\/a>? They are very different than the others I saw, but also uniquely her. Charlotte also writes about the <a href=\"http:\/\/theslightlymadquiltlady.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/the-comfort-of-stitching.html\" target=\"_blank\">comfort of stitching<\/a> and her words are exactly how I feel. I love her posts and her work.<\/p>\n<p>Mom finally got back on <a href=\"http:\/\/marysartmusings.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/i-havent-blogged-in-very-long-time-i.html\" target=\"_blank\">the blogging bandwagon<\/a> and has a bonanza of projects to show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quilt Market<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Christine have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goinghometoroost.com\/2014\/bonnie-christine-design\/see-you-at-quilt-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">two new lines<\/a>. I like Cultivate. Enough to buy? I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Timeless Treasures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttfabrics.com\/tuesday-teaser-quilt-market-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">talks about what they are introducing<\/a>, which you should have seen by now. They also sort of explain the Judy\/Judel Niemeyer confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Julie, over at the Intrepid Thread, talks about her <a href=\"http:\/\/intrepidthread.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/more-new-clothes-for-quilt-market.html\" target=\"_blank\">wardrobe for Market<\/a>, which is always of interest to me.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Brackman has a new reproduction line coming out. She is not going to Market, so has <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarabrackman.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/houston-quilt-market-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\">created a virtual booth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Mortenson is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polkadotchair.com\/2014\/10\/visit-quilt-market.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">debuting her new fabric line and her book<\/a> of projects for teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a key to acronyms I use? Check the AQ Glossary. News My camera broke a few weeks ago, thus the weird photos I have been posting. I haven&#8217;t bought a new one yet, but am planning to do so. It is kind of a pain, because I wasn&#8217;t planning on learning something new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/various-sundry-12-early-november\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Various &#038; Sundry #12 &#8211; Early November&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-25353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-various-sundry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}