{"id":7110,"date":"2010-12-08T06:03:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T13:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=7110"},"modified":"2016-11-29T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T01:07:09","slug":"various-sundry-wednesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/various-sundry-wednesday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Various & Sundry Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned<\/a>, I opened a Cafe Press store around Thanksgiving (http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/Artquiltmaker<\/a>). I was thrilled to check on the sales and had two sales after only two days. AWESOME! if you are reading this and you bought something, thanks! I know it doesn’t sound like a lot to you big time retail executives, but I am excited. Don’t worry! I am not going to harangue you with sales pitches all the time, but won’t you go take a look and buy?<\/p>\n

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American Patchwork & Quilting Winter 2010 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Henry Glass Designer Holiday showcase of Project Goodness (or whatever it is called) just ended or is about to end. Linda Lum DeBono (Mark Lipinski’s friend) started out the first day with her blog post<\/a>. She showed the picture above and I thought it was very like It’s a Merry & Bright Wrap<\/em><\/a>, but much cuter. Is there another Christmas quilt in my future? I don’t know. I’ll buy the magazine, though. In general I found this blog hop confusing and gave up after a day or two. I did enjoy seeing the artists’ work.<\/p>\n

Heather Muldur Peterson is also on the Project Hit Parade (or whatever it is called) and she has a great project in her blog pos<\/a>t using her new fabric line called Artful Home. I like the way the stripes work in the piece. The colors are very vivid. She must have great light (or a special secret) for photographing. Her project is a dish passer, which I needed the other night. Perhaps I will make one. I assume I will have to make one for each of my baking dishes, so perhaps not.<\/p>\n

I joined Creating the Hive<\/a> when Lisa F<\/a> of C&T Publishing invited me. I don’t do much there except repost my blog post and respond to comments. I was thrilled when my Red Journal post was featured last week! It makes me feel like all this writing is valuable! If you want an invitation, leave a comment and I will invite you. I think you can join without an invitation as well.<\/p>\n

Last week I talked about the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild meeting<\/a> I attended. At that meeting, Adrianne<\/a> brought a bag<\/a> she had made. I really liked the bag and was thinking that I should buy the pattern. I thought I might have bought it already as the Grand Revival name rang a bell. I did a search in my blog to see if I had bought it and found that I had THOUGHT about buying that exact same bag pattern, but apparently didn’t. I wrote a blog post<\/a> about it back in September. Perhaps that is a sign that I should actually buy the pattern, which I didn’t. Yes, I am still lamenting hte fact that I have so many bag patterns and haven’t made many fo them.<\/p>\n

I did see a free bag pattern<\/a> from Rebeka Lambert of Artsy Craft Babe, which might satisfy my urge for a new bag pattern. I really want to make some gifts for the holidays, but time is slipping and I am only wishing. We’ll see. Not having to wait for a pattern to arrive buys me time.<\/p>\n

Somehow, in clicking around, I ended up at Kathy Loomis’ blog. She didn’t have a lot of pictures and sometimes I am too pressed for time to read a lot of words (I should remember that when I am going on and on, right?), but her post about taking a leap in art quilt imagery<\/a> was interesting. I don’t know if I agree with her completely, but it was interesting to read some writing about going beyond the “bad, citing \u201cclunky, obvious images” and “sappy, crappy ugly quilts or embroideries or puff-painted sweatshirts.” I think I got a glimpse of reaching beyond during the fabric exercise at the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild meeting. I have been struggling with putting fabrics together and that exercise (which I am more and more in awe of as time goes by) really helped me. I don’t want to make representational quilts or quilts about AIDS or depression or the impending train wreck that is environmental disaster. I do want to reach beyond what I am doing now. I am not sure what that means quite yet, but since this quilt adventure is a process for me, I am sure I will reach and find it.<\/p>\n

REACH BEYOND<\/p>\n

I saw a feature story on the web<\/a> about a grave in Massachusetts on Andi Stern’s blog<\/a> with a really interesting carving of a cephalopod on it. Cthulhu was in the title of the story and I didn’t know what what it meant so I looked it up on Wikipedia<\/a> and found some clarification on some other aspects of the story. Regardless, the image looks like a cheerful beast and I thought some child might like it on a quilt some day, so I saved the photo to my inspiration file.<\/p>\n

Finally, support some artists at USA Projects. See information about the project in the Next Web Social Media blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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