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Take a Make it University!™ with
Cloth Paper Scissors® Challenge
 We’re planning two special reader art exhibits at Make it University!™ at the International Quilt Festival/Spring in Chicago April 13-15, and we’re offering two challenges from which we’ll choose the art.
challenge 1: It's Home Grown!
Make a mixed-media accordion-style book that is inspired by your local surroundings. Perhaps you're like fiber artist Jean Littlejohn who finds great inspiration from cracks in pavement and manhole covers to create her grid series. Or maybe you take walks at your local arboretum and you want to capture the beauty of all that foliage. Whatever your local inspiration may be, we hope you'll capture it in a mixed-media accordion-style book for prominent display in Chicago.
- Make an accordion-style book out of paper, fabric, or a mixture.
- Design and decorate the pages using the theme “It’s Home Grown.”
- The book must be a minimum of four pages and a maximum of 36" long. The height of the book should measure no less than 6" and no more than 14".
- Note: Because of how they will be displayed, only one side of the book will show, and therefore only one side need be decorated.
- The embellishments must not protrude more than 1" from the page.
- The entire book must weigh no more than 5 lbs.
- To be considered for the Make it University display, send 2 jpegs of your book, one of the entire piece and one detail, to cprato@quiltingarts.com no later than March 13, 2007. You will be notified if your book has been accepted by March 15, 2007.
- If accepted, your book must be in our offices no later than March 28, 2007.
Please note: If your book is accepted for the display in Chicago, it will be shipped and moved several times. Though we are very careful with artwork, we strongly encourage you to choose materials and embellishments that are not easily broken and attach them securely to your book.
Mixed-media accordion-style book
From Mixed-media Explorations by Beryl Taylor (above image “Sitting Pretty” by Beryl Taylor):
This style includes no formal binding or stitching and is thus good for beginners.
MATERIALS
- 90 lb. Watercolor paper (purchased in sheets of 22” x 30”)
- Paints
- Silk or other fabric
- Glue
- Needle and thread or sewing machine
- Bone folder or similar instrument to crease the pages
DIRECTIONS
- Decide how many pages you want and how wide and tall you want each page to be. Cut a strip of watercolor paper according to those measurements. (For example, 6” x 28”, to create 7 panels, each 4” wide.
- Fold the pages in a zigzag fashion, creasing the paper with the bone folder as you go.
- Paint, draw, stitch, glue and otherwise decorate the pages directly onto the watercolor paper, or decorate individual “pages” of silk, other fabric, paper or metal and glue or stitch the decorated pages onto the watercolor paper.
MORE IDEAS for making accordion books
- Make the pages out of Lutradur®, Timtex®, or interfacing sandwiched between layers of fabric.
- Make each page singly, insert grommets, and lace the pages together with ribbon, fun fibers, leather strips, etc., in an accordion-style manner.
- Make your decorated pages. Then, take 2 pieces of fabric (such as white muslin) cut to the length and width of your book. Stitch the strips together leaving channels between the pages; the channels should be just big enough to insert a wooden dowel (size of your choice). The dowels will act like a spine for the pages as well as a stand for the book. Before inserting the dowels, stitch the prepared pages onto the muslin strips. Decorate and insert the dowels.
If you have questions about the It’s Home Grown! Challenge, please contact Cate Prato of our editorial staff at cprato@quiltingarts.com.
 challenge 2: Flower Power: The Paper Quilt Challenge
- Make a mixed-media paper quilt that incorporates a floral theme.
- The entire quilt, including binding, must measure 12" x 12".
- You are encouraged, but not required, to use a sewing machine for quilting your paper quilt.
- The embellishments must not protrude more than 1" from the quilt.
- The entire quilt must weigh no more than 2 lbs.
- The quilt must be backed with fabric and the edges must be stitched closed, or you may use a fabric binding.
- The quilt must have a 3" rod pocket attached to the back.
- To be considered for the Make it University display, send 2 jpegs of your paper quilt, one of the entire piece and one detail, to barbara@quiltingarts.com no later than March 13, 2007. You will be notified if your quilt has been accepted by March 15, 2007.
- If accepted, your quilt must be in our offices no later than March 28, 2007.
You may make the quilt out of any kind of paper, but if you are going to stitch it, you may want to strengthen the paper using this method, described by Beryl Taylor in the Premiere Issue of Cloth Paper Scissors and in Mixed-media Explorations.
- Take a piece of open-weave muslin and paint it all over with diluted PVA or white glue.
- Embed wrapping, images, text, etc., into the glue layer, leaving spaces in between.
- Apply another coat of diluted PVA or white glue over the top. Embed craft tissue into the glue layer.
- While the glue is still wet, paint on dyes using a sponge applicator.
For more ideas on how to create mixed-media quilts with paper, see Cloth Paper Scissors® January/February 2007 Issue 10, “Paper View, Quilting with Paper Monoprints”, by Margaret Anderson and Jane LaFazio’s “Ralph’s Letters” quilt in “Artist to Artist.”
If you have questions about the Flower Power Challenge, please contact Barbara Delaney of our editorial staff at barbara@quiltingarts.com.
Paper quilt by Margaret Anderson.
NOTE: Important information for both challenges:
By submitting your Make it Univeristy™ project you are authorizing Interweave Press, LLC, to publish your project in upcoming publication and promotional materials, and on our website. Interweave Press, LLC, will not be held responsible for loss or damage due to circumstances beyond our control.
Have fun and good luck!
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