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Lynn Krawczyk
Creating with layers of surface
design and stitch

FROM SNAPSHOT TO ART QUILT

Natalya Aikens
Design with digital imagery

REPTILE RAW-EDGE APPLIQU

Jane H. Haworth
Capture detail and depth with fabric collage

STITCHED PET PORTRAITS

Bring your art quilts to life

FREE-STYLE FREE-MOTION

LETTERS FROM READERS

SHEILA FRAMPTON-COOPER
Ellen Seeburger

Tips to liberate your stitching

CALL FOR ENTRIES

RESULTS FROM OUR

SIMPLE SHIBORI

GREATEST PET PEEVE

READER CHALLENGE

Jeannie Palmer Moore

ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS

OFF THE PAGE: SKETCHBOOK KEEPING
FOR TEXTILE ARTISTS

The art of resist painting

JUDGES CHOICE

TAKE THAT COLOR OUT

Judy Coates Perez

Ana Buzzalino

Cover art by Cynthia St. Charles.

ARTIST PROFILE:

STITCHING
Elin Waterston

EDITORS NOTE

Cleary, Sheila Frampton-Cooper, and Elin

Waterston
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products from Quilting Arts.

in profile
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Faith Cleary

get more online

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INTENSE ART CLOTH

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Rit Color Remover: a no-bleach alternative

READER CHALLENGE ANNOUNCEMENT

OUT OF THE TOOLBOX

Quilts from the Q A

2012 Calendar Contest

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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Maria Elkins
Putting deColourant and deColourant Plus
to the test

Jim Goldsworthy

MINDING YOUR BUSINESS

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Jane Dvila
Create value-added content for your
blog or website

MEDIA WE LIKE
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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CLASSIFIEDS & AD INDEX
GODDESS OF THE LAST MINUTE
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