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Friday
19Mar2010

Time for the letter Q!

It is time for the letter Q. I hope you will enjoy browsing these blogs over the weekend.

I know I mention it each time but to be listed, I choose blogs that stay on topic at least 80% of the time, are written by textile practitioners and designers who do such things as quilt, stitch, dye, sew, embellish fabric, and bead. Or are kept by people who are interested in art, design or paper related crafts, such as bookbinding, altered books, visual journals or studio journals. By 80% of the time I mean that when I visit, 8 in 10 posts are on topic. If a blog has not been updated in the last 6 weeks or so I don’t include it as I think readers enjoy current and active blogs.

I often find blogs that are not in English and translate them via Google Translate 

For the rest of the alphabet here are the letters A , BCDEFGHIJKLMNO, P and now I would like to present the letter Q 

Quaker Inspired focuses on Quaker samplers 

Queen for a Day by Heidi Wallace writes about contemporary crafts

Queen of Fifty Cents tracks thrift shop finds 

Quicksilver Workaholic Author Cathy Johnson keeps a blog about her  drawings, paintings, collages, photomontages and prints and her sketchbooks and tutorials are often in her flickr stream

Quilt Therapy  is written by quilter Tammy Harrison who has published good instructions for free quilting projects.

Quilted Librarian Dana Fisher is a contemporary quilter who often provides good tutorials and resources on her her blog.

Quilters Buzz  covers news in the quilting industry

Quilters Cottage Norfolk Jane Clark is a British quilter and fiber artist, tracks her interest in contemporary textiles. 

Quiltifications  Tirane tracks her current quilting projects in her blog

Quilting and Life in General  Doni is a quilter who tracks the proces of making the quilts she creates

Quilting Arts  is the blog of the magazine by the same name

Quilting in the Valleys  Gina blogs her quilting activities

Quilting Twin Keryn is a fellow Aussie who lives in country South Australia and quilts 

Quiltkunstquilt  Christiane Kühr describes herself as a textile artist who paints, dyes, stamps and stitches fabric. Dont miss her blog as some of her daily sketches are great designs.

Quilts hidden histories untold stories is a fascinating blog written by Sue Prichard of the Victorian and Albert museum

Quilts 'n Things  is Candies quilting blog. Her other blog which covers crazy quilting is  Candi's Eyecandy

Quilts & Creativity  Maria Peagler's blog discusses quilts, offers tips and houses lessons

Quilts4U Gina keeps a contemporary quilting blog 

Quilts n' More  Pamela is quilter who writes about the contemporary quilts she creates.

Quiltville Quips & Snips  Bonnie Hunter is a long time quilter who blogs about her interest

Quinn Creative writes about journalling and art journalling which is why I have included it on this list but in reality it is not on the topic of textiles or fiber. Many articles focus on communication skills, writing and along the way Quinn offers advice and tips 

Quipsologies described as “a division of underconsideration, is bent on keeping the design community aware of as many things as possible through an ever-growing cluster of creative morsels found on- and off-line.”

Quodlibet Jane O’Leary tracks her fiber and textile projects and is studying for a City and Guilds Diploma in Stitched Textiles

Enjoy browsing these as I did!

Friday
19Mar2010

CQ Detail 158

The detail:

This detail decorates the sides of lace with three straight stitches and seed beads

The lace runs across piece 4 on block 24 of the "I dropped the button box" quilt.

The back story:

This is part of a series documenting the seam embroidery and embellishments in crazy quilt blocks in my quilt. All articles in the series are categorised under Crazy Quilt details

Links to the crazy quilt blocks covered so far are, block 12, 34, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1617181920212223 and 24

 

Thursday
18Mar2010

For the Love of Stitching Sampler - Band 200

This line of stitching is a combination of cable chain and wheatear stitch.

 

 

Thread 

A  #5 perle cotton thread

Fabric:

Linen hand dyed

Dyes: 

Procion dyes used on the fabric and thread 

Size:

The sampler is 15 cm (6 inches) wide and all sections are stitched together in one long band sampler.

The sampler is currently 44 ft 5 inches or 533 inches (1353.83 centimetres) or 14.8 yards  (13.53 metres) long and still being added to.

Date:

This section of the sampler was worked in January 2006.

The back story:

This series is documenting a long hand embroidered band sampler, which is still growing as I still stitch it. More about the band sampler are in the category For the Love of Stitching band sampler  

Other related posts

Introductory Post - how and why this sampler came to be made 

A few questions answered about fabric choice and width

Extending and backing the sampler

For the Love of Stitching Sampler Sections 1 and 23 and 4Section 5 ,  Section 6 ,  Section 7 ,  Section 8 Section 9Section 10Section 11 Section 12 and Section 13

Wednesday
17Mar2010

Photoshop tutorials 

This list of 40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials is worth browsing and doing some of the free tuts!

I realise only a percentage of my readers have and use Photoshop. An even greater percentage of readers have Photoshop but do not use it because they find it too difficult.  I could not resist posting this link, particularly for those readers that would like to improve their digital skills.

This list is really worth bookmarking, and in your quiet times returning an working through the tutorials one by one. Anyone who did this would learn a lot.

Feedback wanted:

Can I have feedback on how many people are interested in links like this? I often encounter both beginner and more advanced photo manipulation links, graphics resource sites, links for drawing packages like illustrator etc.

I was wondering as more and more textiles and fiber folks are using a graphics package as a design tool are people interested in resources like this being added as a regular feature? By regular I mean as maximum once a week but more likely to be twice a month. I do not mean a total change of topic. I have always posted links to resources online for manipulating graphics. So, I am suggesting  increasing this type of information slightly (or even more if I get a resounding response to it) and asking how readers feel about the idea.  

If you have time leave a comment  and let me know. I would appreciate knowing.

Wednesday
17Mar2010

CQ Detail 157

The detail:

This detail is probably a favourite stitch of many crazy quilters. It is two lines of feather stitch that have seed beads attached to the arms of the stitch. 

These lines cover two seams that sit either side of fabric piece 2 on block 24 of the "I dropped the button box" quilt.

The back story:

This is part of a series documenting the seam embroidery and embellishments in crazy quilt blocks in my quilt. All articles in the series are categorised under Crazy Quilt details

Links to the crazy quilt blocks covered so far are, block 1,  2,  3,   4,  5,  6 , 7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15,  16,  17 , 181920212223 and 24