Jude is making Videos


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For those who read Sprit Cloth and are fans of Jude’s work I am sure you will enjoy this video.  Not only does Jude share some of her studio journal sketches but she talks about her creative process. Jude’s speaks about adding a block to the “story” and how stories …

Giant crop murals in rice fields


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I had not heard of rice paddy art until I encountered this on Youtube. This is a time lapse video of rice farmers in Japan who create huge murals by planting fields of different coloured rice. Since rice plants produce fiber as well as grain I have my fingers crossed …

Turning a photo into a design


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Over on Feeling Stitchy there is an excellent tutorial on How to turn a photograph into an embroidery design. Kirsty has illustrated the article step by step and I am sure many embroiderers will find it useful. So run over there …

Karma Kraft


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Karma Kraft is a new (to me) print your fabric on demand service which is ideal for quilters and new designers who want to explore designing and printing their own fabric. There is a full explanation of how custom printing works on the site but basically you sign up, upload …

Botanical Monotypes of Mary Margaret Briggs


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Mary Margaret Briggs is a print maker who uses plants to mask an area creating what she calls botanical monotypes. No matter what they are called Mary Margaret Briggs produces some great prints applying the technique. Follow Pintangle and have it delivered to your inbox You can have Pintangle delivered to your …

A video tutorial about Kuler


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Adobe TV has this video tutorial about Kuler the free web app which earlier on in the week I wrote about using.  We have Robbie of Loft Studio Designs to thank for this video as she left me comment pointing to it. If you have time pop over and heck …

Trash and treasure


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What is one persons trash if truly another persons treasure. I snapped this photo in New Zealand recently as I found the colours where interesting. Not only the lids of bins attracted me but the colours the lane had been painted some interesting colours too.  I decided to play around …