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| Quilting Room |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 4:50 pm |
| Tags: Beginning Quilting, Pictures Of Quilting Rooms, Pictures Of Sewing Rooms, Quilters Spaces, Quilting Rooms, Sewing Rooms |
| Do you have a really great quilting area to work in? Is your home graced with a studio where you can work undisturbed? For most of us, the answer to both questions is no. We work on the dining room table, or anywhere we can balance a pile of fabric and some spools of thread. I’m always interested in the sewing rooms of |
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| Answers In A Game Of Questions |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 1:51 am |
| Tags: Goethe |
| THE LADY.IN the small and great world too,What most charms a woman's heart?It is doubtless what is new,For its blossoms joy impart;Nobler far is what is true,For fresh blossoms it can shootEven in the time of fruit.THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN.With the Nymphs in wood and caveParis was acquainted well,Till Zeus sent, to make him rave,Three of those in |
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| July 23, 2008 |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 11:28 pm |
| Tags: 2008 Classes, July 2008, Sewing |
| For today’s project, I found something simple and something that each person with a sewing machine needs - a sewing machine cover. I found the pattern here at Love to Sew (they’ve got some great stuff!) and I think it took me roughly an hour to cut, piece it together and sew it. As far as anything I’d do |
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| Music of the Dead debuts as live symphony |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 6:06 pm |
| The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will present the world premiere of Dead Symphony No. 6 next Friday, the day Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia would have turned 66. |
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| $4.2M to fix Walk of Fame's damaged stars |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 5:49 pm |
| The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday it is planning a $4.2-million makeover of the Los Angeles Walk of Fame. |
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| Eight new artists chosen for country showcase |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 5:01 pm |
| [IMAGE]Former Canadian Idol hopefuls Karen Lee Batten and Jason Greeley are among eight emerging artists who will show off their talents to country music lovers at the New Artist Showcase during Country Music Week this September in Winnipeg. |
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| Creature features, Van Damme, young heroes slated for TIFF |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 4:06 pm |
| Down-and-out action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, movies featuring a handful of heroic kids and more than two dozen avant-garde films and videos are among the latest additions to the Toronto International Film Festival bill. |
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| Courtney Love sued over profits of Nirvana catalogue sale |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 3:57 pm |
| A U.S. management and accounting firm has filed a nearly $1 million US lawsuit against rocker Courtney Love over profits from her partial sale of grunge pioneers Nirvana's publishing catalogue. |
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| Montreal writer nominated for Man Asian literary prize |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 3:52 pm |
| Montrealer Miguel Syjuco has been long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel Ilustrado. |
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| Casting On |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 3:28 pm |
| Tags: Cast On, Count, Knit, Knitting |
| Maybe it’s just because my brain is worn out and I can no longer think straight, but I’m finding one of the most difficult parts of knitting now is casting on. Not the actual physical activity, I can handle the long-tail and knit-on methods just fine. Even the cable-cast on doesn’t have me stumped. It’ |
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| Making Art & Money in the Digital World - Meet Me in Atlanta |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 3:24 pm |
| Tags: Art Business, Art Print Market, Art Publishers, Barney Davey, Current Affairs, Digital Painting, Digital Photography, Digital Printing, Fine Art Reproductions, Giclee, Learning, Limited Editions, Marketing Art, Workshops, Art Market, Art Business, Art Print Market, Giclee |
| I'm honored to be giving a presentation titled Making Art & Money in the Digital World at the Digital Arts Studio in Atlanta next month. The company is an industry leading premier digital printmaker. The talk is slated for Wednesday, August 13 at 6:30 pm at company headquarters. The address is: 1082 Huff Rd NW, Atlanta, Georgia |
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| I Spy a Quilt |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 2:54 pm |
| Tags: Beginning Quilting, Noticing Quilts, Quilts As A Symbol, Quilts Everywhere, Quilts Exemplify Home, Quilts In Movies |
| After I started quilting, I began to notice quilts . . . everywhere. There was one in the reading room of my local library, in the showroom of the local bedding store, in my favorite episode of Friends, and there is a quilt in at least one of every five movies I watch. Sometimes they are hanging on walls, or draped over the |
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| Toronto's Just for Laughs starts with Strombo |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 2:07 pm |
| Last week they laughed their way through Montreal and now, stand-up comedians are taking on Toronto. |
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| Writers' Trust sweetens the pot for lit prizes |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 12:17 pm |
| The Writers' Trust of Canada is making the pot a lot sweeter for several of its annual literary prizes, announcing on Tuesday increases in the cash values of the fiction, non-fiction and children's literature prizes. |
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| Features of An Artist |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 11:29 am |
| During my journey as an artist, I have learned that we have some interesting features: 1. Stubborn or hard to get along with. 2. Miserable in a job that stifles creativity. 3. Can be a lone wolf type of person. 4. Sees the world differently than others. 5. Not as open to other artists, fearing competition. 6. Dislike other artists |
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