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Spotlight: Lotta Helleberg, Fiber Artist
Combining the essence of the flora that surrounds her Virginia home with her Scandinavian esthetic, Lotta Helleberg uses botanical contact printing (AKA eco-printing) as a foundation for her fiber art.…
Spotlight: Philippa Naylor, Textile Artist
Always up for the next challenge, Philippa Naylor takes on anything she needs to do to challenge her skills, grow as an artist and help others to grow, as well.…
Spotlight: Ingrid Alteneder, Quilt Designer
If you think that foundation paper piecing patterns are predictable, you have not met Ingrid Alteneder. From her third-floor studio in Frankfurt, Germany, Ingrid breaks images down into basic geometric…
Spotlight: Sue Burley, Textile Artist
Finding her creative path with a focus on issues that affect people's everyday lives, Sue Burley uses textiles to give form to her ideas. One piece inspires the next -…
Spotlight: Mary Vaneecke, Fiber Artist
Mary Vaneecke is a fiber artist with a passion for social issues and making a difference with her work. From small art quilts to curating a huge installation of 23,000…
Art Cloth Network: Celebrating 20 Years
Art Cloth is cloth transformed by adding or subtracting color, line, shape, texture, value, or fiber to create a compelling surface. This is the Art Cloth Network's definition. Art Cloth Network…
How to Stamp on Fabric (Beginner-Friendly Guide)
Want to add pattern and personality to plain fabric without complicated sewing or expensive tools? Fabric stamping is one of the fastest ways to transform fabric—and it’s beginner-friendly, forgiving, and…
Letters Home: A Crate and a Gate
The central focus in this quilt is a large crate. Our Mother tells the story of their sea shipment arriving in a large wooden crate, the excitement of having a…
Spotlight: Patricia Mosca, Artist and Writer
Painting intuitively, Patricia Mosca, of Rochester, New York, lets color speak to her and guide the layers she builds with whatever tools manipulate the paint to her satisfaction. An adventurer…
Spotlight: Melinda Hutton, Recycled Jewelry Artist
Loving the improvisation of finding ways to make disparate elements work together to become a cohesive whole, Melinda Hutton has found her happy place with Closures-Remnants. She combines old buttons…
DIY Mouse Pad
The makeshift mouse pad on my desk, which had evolved from a large folded piece of tissue paper, looked more than a bit pathetic. It slid about on my glass-topped…
How to Make a Garment Bag: Free DIY Sewing Pattern
Pick your own fabrics to personalize your own garment bag. We are all doing more road trips, and I find being able to pull together my hanging clothes and put…
Spotlight: Jill Jensen, Fiber and Mixed Media Artist
From engineer to artist, Jill Jensen's work has evolved to adapt to lifestyle changes as well as to satisfy her natural curiosity. She combines the strong graphic quality of printmaking…
Spotlight: Christine Ricks & Amy Ellis, Curated Quilts
What happens when two quilters start meeting for lunch? For Christine Ricks and Amy Ellis, they launch Curated Quilts, a quarterly quilt show you can hold in your hands. The…
How to Make a Face Mask from a Template
As long as we need to wear face masks, I like to have a deep inventory. I need fresh ones - doing laundry is not my favorite quarantine activity when…
Spotlight: Barbara O’Steen: Fiber Artist
Barbara O'Steen's art career has spanned many years and many obstacles that would have kept a lesser woman down. Through gender barriers, supporting a young family as a widow and…
Spotlight: Tara Axford, Mixed Media Artist
When Australian mixed-media artist Tara Axford discovered she could bring printmaking into her home studio with adapted equipment, it changed her creative life. It opened up the possibilities of using…
Spotlight: Michelle Kingdom, Embroidery Artist
With a strong sense of narrative, Michelle Kingdom embraces embroidery as an art form that has long been sidelined as "women's work". With lines of stitching, she creates textural drawings…