Issue #7

In this issue of Quilting Arts Magazine® Embellishments you'll learn how to make Patricia Bolton's fiber art journal cover as well as the latest on our fiber art cruise and our 2-for-1 calendar sale.

journal cover

After devouring the latest two Jan Beaney/Jean Littlejohn books, Grids to Stitch (Book #17) and Seductive Surfaces (Book #18), Quilting Arts Magazine® Editor-in-Chief Patricia Bolton was inspired to make a mixed-media design that she then stitched onto a fabric journal cover.

MATERIALS:

• Transfer-dyed velvet (approximately 8" square)
  
• 2 hand-dyed chiffon scarves
  
• Hand-dyed cotton (approximately 8" square)
  
• 8" square piece of Misty-Fuse Shiva® Paintstiks® in gold and copper
  
• Hand threads in coordinating colors
  
• Tapestry needle
  
• Gold metallic thread
  
• Sewing pins
  
• Sewing machine
  
• Fabric scissors
  
• Heat gun
  
• Iron
  
• Painted cheesecloth

DIRECTIONS:

1. Iron the Misty-Fuse fusible webbing to the back of the transfer-dyed velvet.
2. Cut the transfer-dyed velvet into 14 diamonds.
3. Iron the velvet diamonds in rows onto your hand-dyed piece of fabric.
4. Pin one of the chiffon scarves on top and machine-stitch around the velvet diamonds. (It's easiest to machine-stitch in long diagonal rows.)
5. Take your heat gun and burn away most of the chiffon scarf. (Make sure to do this either outside or in a well-ventilated area.)
6. Add running stitches around the diamonds with various hand threads.
7. Cut the cheesecloth into 3 diamonds and place randomly on your piece.
8. Repeat steps 4 and 5 with your second chiffon scarf.
9. Accent bits of your design with gold by dabbing some Shiva Paintstik in gold and/or copper with your finger around the raised areas.
10. To add to a fabric journal, cut your finished design to size and satin-stitch to the cover.

For more details making this project, visit the Editor’s Blog.

cruise or lose?

Classroom seats in our Fabulous Fiber Art and Creative Embroidery Cruise to Alaska July 14-21, 2007, are filling quickly, so register now so you won’t lose out. The Quilting Arts, LLC, cruise features:

• workshops with Jan Beaney, Jean Littlejohn,, Beryl Taylor, and Patricia Bolton,
  
• complimentary receptions with fellow fiber artists,
  
• luxury treatment aboard the Holland America Cruise Line,
  
• plus the amazing scenery and wildlife of Alaska.
  

Visit qacruise.com for registration and information.

two calendar years for the price of one

Order the 2007 Quilting Arts Magazine® Calendar now, and we’ll give you the 2006 edition, with 13 quilt artists’ idea of their Utopia, for FREE while supplies last. Use the beautiful images in both calendars as inspiration for your own techniques or just hang them up as wall art. The 2007 calendar features 13 artists’ interpretation of “How Does Your Garden Grow?” and includes listings for 2007 quilt shows in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia.

Get two calendar years for the price of one today...

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