{"id":7854,"date":"2011-02-17T06:42:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T13:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=7854"},"modified":"2016-06-28T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T23:11:47","slug":"various-and-sundry-2011-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/various-and-sundry-2011-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Various and Sundry 2011 #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crafts<\/strong><br \/>\nSince it is never too early to start making gift bags, especially since you can use them for birthdays, Mother&#8217;s Day, Father&#8217;s Day, Groundhog Day, etc. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/17040170\" target=\"_blank\">video gift bag tutorial<\/a> for another way of making gift bags.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong><br \/>\nTedTalks is back with a great audio essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/nigel_marsh_how_to_make_work_life_balance_work.html\" target=\"_blank\">work life balance<\/a>. That term &#8220;work-life balance&#8221; always makes me laugh. People take time for their lives in the midst of work here in the US. IMO, of course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media<\/strong><br \/>\nI went to the C&amp;T Publishing Digital Lounge, which is hosted by Lisa of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisalizalou.com\" target=\"_blank\">LisaLizaLou<\/a>, on a recent Wednesday. There were two video demos and a chat portion. Lisa did one demo of TAP and Liquitex products, while SuziBlu did a demo of working iwth the canvas book. She isn&#8217;t an artist with whom I was familiar, but it was interesting.\u00a0 Links to the products used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpub.com\/productdetails.cfm?PC=1816\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Transfer Artists Paper<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0 Lisa basically showed how to use this. I still don&#8217;t know, because the chat was so distracting, but it looks very cool and I know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apaperaddict.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">my sister<\/a> would love it for her cardmaking and scrapbooking. I may have go back and watch the archive demo again.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpub.com\/productdetails.cfm?PC=1240\" target=\"_blank\">Ready-to-Go!\u00ae Blank Canvas Book 8 1\/2\u201d x 11<\/a>\u201d<\/span>:\u00a0 SuziBlu, the featured artist, used this book to show fabric printing, fabric painting and various other techniques. I haven&#8217;t never heard of her, but the audience was very enthusiastic. Her faces looked similar to Kelly Rae Roberts and I wonder if they work together?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpub.com\/productdetails.cfm?PC=1985\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Silicone Release Paper<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0 &#8211; Lisa said that this does not get hot. The sheets are only 8\/5&#215;11&#8243;, but I think they would be useful. I&#8217;ll put a package on my list.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploresurfacedesign.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Liquitex paints<\/span> (inks?) from C&amp;T<\/a>:\u00a0 I have used something similar at A Work of Heart. Inks are wonderful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpub.com\/productdetails.cfm?PC=1870\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fabric Art Collage\u201440+ Mixed Media Techniques eBook<\/span><\/a> by Rebekah Meier:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can watched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linqto.com\/PlaybackRoom.aspx?roomname=ctpublishing&amp;name=SingleExplicit_2011_02_09_19_59_37_773\" target=\"_blank\">archived replay<\/a> as well. Lisa received an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HVE-Dvybrok\" target=\"_blank\">award at CHA<\/a> and you can pretend you were there by watching the video.<\/p>\n<p>I ran across Judy Nolan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judy-nolan.com\/2011\/02\/09\/humble-but-essential-tools-for-sewing\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> on sewing notions. There were some listed that I thought would be very helpful to quiltmakers, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagemills.com\/notions.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cotton Mills Treasure Markers<\/a>. In the course of the post, she also gives a brief history of Nancy Zieman, of Nancy&#8217;s Notions fame, and her career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebluebell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adrianne<\/a> keeps pointing me (and her other blog fans) to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatquarterly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fat Quarterly Magazine\/Newsletter<\/a>. I love the idea and think the articles and information would be right up my alley. I don&#8217;t love the online aspect and I can&#8217;t see myself printing 70+ pages on my little inkjet. I don&#8217;t enjoy reading in bed with my laptop. Perhaps with the iPad, but still, I really like the old print versions to read at night. Not sure what I will do, except not buy it at the moment. New business model: printing and binding online mags for people for a reasonable price on a subscription basis.<\/p>\n<p>In some part of Fat Quarterly that I, as a non-subscriber, could access, I was introduced to <a href=\"http:\/\/moderndayquilts.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Day Quilts<\/a>, a Tumblr blog that showcases one quilt a day. When I went to look I saw one that looked like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhiro.com\/quilts\/individual%20quilts\/spiral%20bound.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the mosaic piecing<\/a> from a recent issue of the AQS magazine and the art glass type quilts by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpub.com\/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=221\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Hirota<\/a>. It was made by the writer of <a href=\"http:\/\/howaboutpinkplease.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/you-can-call-me-owl.html\" target=\"_blank\">PinkPlease! blog<\/a>. Apparently, though, the artist is calling it a ticker tape quilt from a <a href=\"http:\/\/deeroodesigns.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/round-9-of-old-red-barn-quilt.html?showComment=1297571772706#c2854162242017081500\" target=\"_blank\">tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be*mused has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22514067@N00\/sets\/72157625919155444\/\" target=\"_blank\">set on Flickr<\/a> of quilts from the Tokyo Quilt Festival this past January.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t always loved video, but I am liking it more. I didn&#8217;t used to watch much TV and the video was jerky and weird. Now, there are so many videos on subjects in which I am interested (such as quiltmaking! Embellishing! Piecing! etc) that it is great to watch little bits of videos and learn something. I just found that Laura Wasilowski has a <a href=\"http:\/\/artfabrik.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/thread-u-cation-thursdays-french-knot.html\" target=\"_blank\">video on making French knots<\/a>. It is a little over a minute long and well done (except for the wooshing sound in the background). Viewers also get to see one of her fabulous whimsical pieces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shows<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m  part of Contemporary Quilt and Fiber Artists (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqfa.org\" target=\"_blank\">CQFA<\/a>) and we&#8217;ll be  exhibiting &#8220;Primal Green: Environmental Art Quilts&#8221; @ the Main Branch of  the San Francisco Public Library (5th fl) from March 1 &#8211; July 30. Artist reception  will be held on April 17th @ 1pm. Hope some of you can come! Check out  our link for more info: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cqfa.org\/shows.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.cqfa.org\/shows.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Projects<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Young Man keeps asking for his annual quilt. Huh? He recently told me he wants a food quilt. Mom has a lot of food fabric that I bought for her. Robin, at the recent retreat, was making a <a href=\"http:\/\/valentinequiltworks.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/disappearing-9-patch-quilt.html\" target=\"_blank\">disappearing 9 patch<\/a>, which is stuck in my head. I was thinking of working on one of those using food fabric for him. Recently, I talked to my mom and she said that she was thinking about making a disappearing 4patch. I looked up the <a href=\"http:\/\/quiltwhangarei.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/charity-block-for-february-meeting.html\" target=\"_blank\">directions<\/a> to which she pointed me and it looks interesting, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Machinery<\/strong><br \/>\nI know BryeLynn of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sewstitchcreate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sew*Stitch*Create<\/a> has had a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/re-post-of-54\/id306921873?i=89520572\" target=\"_blank\">problems with her Janome 11K<\/a>, but I would still like to upgrade to one. It isn&#8217;t going to happen until we get the Young Man off to college, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I am not tempted by <a href=\"http:\/\/janomespecials.com\/truckload-sale-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">ads that Janome<\/a> currently has running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crafts Since it is never too early to start making gift bags, especially since you can use them for birthdays, Mother&#8217;s Day, Father&#8217;s Day, Groundhog Day, etc. Here is a video gift bag tutorial for another way of making gift bags. Time TedTalks is back with a great audio essay on work life balance. That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/various-and-sundry-2011-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Various and Sundry 2011 #3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[400],"tags":[86,330,345,118],"class_list":["post-7854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-other-artists","tag-tools","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\/7854","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}