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EVENTSStop by and meet usQuilting Arts will have a booth at the following shows. Please stop by and watch our demonstrations, learn about the magazine and our products, or just say, “Hello!” International Quilt Festival/Long Beach
Tune inQuilting Arts TV NewsQuilting Arts, LLC Publishes over 400 Quilts in New Book Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt ProjectNovember 2006 Some people keep written journals for months or years at a time. But relatively few turn their everyday lives—the joys, tragedies, and mundane events—into a creative contemporary art quilt every month for a year. Yet over the past four years, 918 quilt artists have signed up for The Journal Quilt Project: A Page from My Book, sponsored by Quilts, Inc., to make page-sized art quilts every month, challenging themselves to chronicle their lives and experiment with new techniques and materials on the cutting edge of fiber art design. The quilts—nearly 6,000 in all—have been displayed annually at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas. Now, photographs of more than 400 of the best of these art quilts—including those by seven artists from the Greater Boston area—have been brought together in one book, Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project, published by Quilting Arts, LLC, of Stow, Massachusetts, publishers of Quilting Arts Magazine® and Cloth Paper Scissors®. Creative Quilting is not only beautiful to look at, it serves as a resource for artists of any genre, professionals or hobbyists, who yearn to make room for innovation and inspiration in their art and their lives. Quilting Arts Magazine® and Cloth Paper Scissors® Increase Publication to Bi-monthlyNovember 2006 Stow, Massachusetts – At a time when many print publications are folding, Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth Paper Scissors are expanding from a quarterly to bi-monthly production schedule. Both magazines are published by Quilting Arts, LLC, in Stow, Massachusetts. The expansion follows the news that Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth Paper Scissors each ranks first in their category by sales and volume among craft magazines sold by Borders Books and Music, based on figures from the bookseller for the fiscal year June 2005 through May 2006. Quilting Arts Magazine rank is based on dollar sales and number of copies sold among all quilting magazines (28 total titles) carried by Borders while Cloth Paper Scissors, is first in dollar sales and number of copies sold among all paper craft magazines (58 titles in all). Among all craft magazines (277 titles), Cloth Paper Scissors ranks 6th and Quilting Arts ranks 13th. “There are no other magazines quite like Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors,” says John Bolton, publisher of the two magazines. “Fiber artists, crafters, and hobbyists of all skill levels praise us for our innovative (yet easy to follow) how-to articles and beautiful photography of some of the finest and most exciting art from around the globe. Our readers continually tell us that we are unique in the marketplace, so it only makes sense that we give them more of what they already love.” Quilting Arts Magazine was born six years ago from creator and Editor-in-Chief Patricia Bolton’s passion for creative contemporary art quilting. When she could find no publication that focused exclusively on this growing style of quilting, the former special needs teacher and her husband John, an attorney, started their own magazine. In the year 2000, Quilting Arts Magazine clearly responded to a pent-up demand and was an immediate hit, selling out the initial press run of 5,000 copies. Sales for the quarterly publication continued to rise steadily from there. In 2004, Patricia and John saw that many artists with quilting and fiber arts backgrounds were now incorporating more paper and other media into their work, creating fiber books, assemblages with found objects and metal, and other fiber-based, mixed-media art. The Boltons launched Cloth Paper Scissors®, also a quarterly, in the fall of 2004. Cloth Paper Scissors has also met with steady growth. Currently, Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth Paper Scissors have a combined circulation of 195,000 worldwide, per issue. |
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