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  • The Avatar Path: The Way We Came - A New Book from the Author of the Avatar Materials Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 8:00AM"The Avatar Path: The Way We Came" is the eighth book from Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar materials. More than a collection of stories and perspectives, this is a complex process of self-evolvement that will transform the way you think. This is the story of an awakening that has become a worldwide movement.
  • Cool covers to cut chills Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 9:21PM"Get a heavier quilt, a gorgeous throw at the end of the bed and change the cushions and colours."
  • Housing discrimination is still a problem Friday, May 6, 2011 @ 10:52AMQ: Are there any protections against discrimination when buying, selling or renting a home? A: April was Fair Housing Month. It’s a good time to focus on the problem of discrimination in housing rentals and purchases, and to work towards a time when renting or buying a home is equally accessible to all Americans.
  • Swiss aerial photographer showing images of Iran in London Friday, April 8, 2011 @ 10:12AM"Paradise Lost, Persia from Above", a collection of 14 large fine art prints taken by Swiss aerial photographer Georg Gerster, opened April 7 at the Wilmotte Gallery in London. Between 1976 and 1978, Gerster was given rarely granted permission to record the landscape of Iran. The pictures included in this unique archive were gathered from over 100 different flights.
  • Swiss aerial photographer showing images of Iran in London Friday, April 8, 2011 @ 10:12AM"Paradise Lost, Persia from Above", a collection of 14 large fine art prints taken by Swiss aerial photographer Georg Gerster, opened April 7 at the Wilmotte Gallery in London. Between 1976 and 1978, Gerster was given rarely granted permission to record the landscape of Iran. The pictures included in this unique archive were gathered from over 100 different flights.
  • Swiss aerial photographer showing images of Iran in London Friday, April 8, 2011 @ 8:15AMTEHRAN, April 8 (MNA) -- “Paradise Lost, Persia from Above”, a collection of 14 large fine art prints taken by Swiss aerial photographer Georg Gerster, opened April 7 at the Wilmotte Gallery in London.
  • Swiss aerial photographer showing images of Iran in London Friday, April 8, 2011 @ 8:15AMTEHRAN, April 8 (MNA) -- “Paradise Lost, Persia from Above”, a collection of 14 large fine art prints taken by Swiss aerial photographer Georg Gerster, opened April 7 at the Wilmotte Gallery in London.
  • Top 9 weekend things to do in the Tri-State Thursday, April 7, 2011 @ 6:56PMLooking for something to do this weekend? WCPO and CityBeat have teamed up to bring you the top 9 weekend things to do in the Tri-State.
  • Modern Never Gets Old, Marimekko Celebrates 60 Years of Design Wednesday, April 6, 2011 @ 10:22AMThe Iconic Print & Design House Rolls out Product "Gems" & Awe-Inspiring Stories (PRWeb April 06, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Marimekko/Anniversary/prweb5228384.htm
  • Boonville residents quilt together generations Friday, April 1, 2011 @ 2:51PMQuilts will be on display at the Missouri State Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), on Friday and Saturday.
  • Sonia Delaunay textiles are art in motion Monday, March 21, 2011 @ 3:52AMNEW YORK - A century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colors could be used to create a sense of movement and rhythm in art.
  • Quilt show draws hundreds seeking inspiration Saturday, March 19, 2011 @ 11:33PMHundreds of quilters from around the region are in Minot this weekend for what they consider the event of the season.
  • May I Introduce..... Helen White Saturday, March 19, 2011 @ 11:07PMAn interesting interview with Quilter Helen White from Australia
  • Sonia Delaunay: A designing woman Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 1:18PMA century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colours could be used to create a sense of movement and rhythm in art.
  • Art in motion: Sonia Delaunay textiles on view Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 10:08AM(AP:NEW YORK) A century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colors could be used to create a sense of movement and rhythm in art.
  • Art in motion: Sonia Delaunay textiles on view Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 7:22AMA century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colors could be used to create a sense of
  • Art in motion: Sonia Delaunay textiles on view Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 6:46AMANN LEVIN For The Associated Press NEW YORK A century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colors could be used to create a sense of movement and rhythm in art. Sonia, who was intent on merging art and everyday life, applied this principle of "simultaneity" (color suggesting motion) to ...
  • Art in Motion: Sonia Delaunay Textiles on View Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 6:00AMCooper-Hewitt Museum displays fabrics, clothing, designs of artist Sonia Delaunay
  • Cooper-Hewitt Museum displays fabrics, clothing, designs of artist Sonia Delaunay Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 5:59AMNEW YORK, N.Y. - A century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colours could be used to create a sense of movement and rhythm in art.
  • Art in motion: Sonia Delaunay textiles on view Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 5:58AMA century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris,...
  • 33rd annual quilt show embraces all ages and styles Monday, February 28, 2011 @ 3:45AMWATSONVILLE -- Long gone are the days when quilting was restricted to grandmas and colonial patchwork patterns.
  • 33rd annual Pajaro Valley Quilt Association show embraces all ages, styles Sunday, February 27, 2011 @ 7:13PMWATSONVILLE - Long gone are the days when quilting was restricted to grandmas and colonial patchwork patterns.
  • Jolietan to sign copies of new quilt book Thursday, February 24, 2011 @ 12:40PMSimple nine-patch blocks, dazzling stars and basket blocks. These are just some of the patterns quilters can make from their leftover fabrics using the just released book, “Simply Charming: Small Scrap Quilts of Yesteryear,” by Tara Lynn Darr of Joliet.In this book Darr, a nationally-known quilt designer whose designs have been published in “American Patchwork & Quilting” magazine, features 20 ...
  • Quilting a trail: Henderson County joining unique landscape decorating project Wednesday, February 23, 2011 @ 9:03PMThe paint, paintbrushes and other supplies are ready.
  • Quilts in Modesto Thursday, January 13, 2011 @ 4:01AMModesto quilter Joyce Compton prefers making more adventurous art quilts than sticking to traditional block piecework.
  • Quilts will be blanketing Modesto this weekend Thursday, January 13, 2011 @ 4:01AMModesto quilter Joyce Compton and Escalon resident Nancy Galloway are the featured quilters in the Heart of the Valley Quilt & Textile Arts Show Saturday and Sunday at Modesto Centre Plaza. The women made about 45 of the 300 quilts that will be on display.
  • Yellow Creek Quilt Designs recognized by national magazine Monday, January 3, 2011 @ 9:14PMSunday’s open house for Yellow Creek Quilt Designs was a festive affair. Pearl City was bustling with activity. Cars lined Main Street. The activity had nothing to do with the impending Packer/Bear football game. People came to hear the news.
  • I’m still passionate about this Norwich theatre Monday, December 13, 2010 @ 6:23AMFrom the best of times to the worst of times, standing ovations to threats that Norwich Playhouse itself was facing its final curtain call, Caroline Richardson has weathered the storm alongside her beloved theatre.
  • West View fifth-graders go back in time to make their artistic mark Thursday, December 9, 2010 @ 8:46AMGirls will be girls. While classmates Antanay Smitherman and Kariann Neill, both 11, worked on their art project, they traded news about who might be interested in whom among members of their fifth-grade class at West View Elementary School.  read more »
  • Laura Ness: Ring in new, celebrate traditions during holidays Saturday, December 4, 2010 @ 7:28AMThanksgiving always reminds me of how many traditions we hang onto, and how sometimes a renegade act sets the tone for a whole new tradition.
  • Paper Trails: Stitching present to past Thursday, November 25, 2010 @ 1:33AMPassing down traditional craft skills
  • Something for everyone at the library Wednesday, November 24, 2010 @ 8:51AMJulie is on her way to work at her job as a book publicist when she gets a hysterical call from her friend, whose husband has just announced that their marriage is over.
  • Create patchwork quilt on tired furniture piece Sunday, November 7, 2010 @ 2:18AMThis is a really fun way to dress up a bench, table, chair or any flat wooden surface. I go to a flea market or vintage shops to collect wallpaper and paper scraps. Then I bring everything home and cut the scraps into squares or rectangles.
  • Hobbies: Decorate a flat surface with wallpaper and paper scraps Monday, October 25, 2010 @ 9:16PMThink of it as a paper patchwork quilt.
  • Charity case Wednesday, October 13, 2010 @ 5:33AMWhen she learned of a national drive for pillowcases, Ann McConkey saw it as a chance to do something nice for others in her community while also doing something she loves.
  • Bicentennial artist working in broad strokes Monday, October 4, 2010 @ 4:23AMFAIRLAWN, Ohio - Don Dillahunt likes to be different, so what better way than to have a garage painted - by a master barn artist - based on family quilts?
  • Exhibit Review | Cultural Arts Center: Exploration of patterns plays with natural forms Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 4:58AMUsing glue and pigment on panels, Mille Guldbeck creates textural, patterned pieces that evoke nature and its forms - as seen in the exhibit "Technature"
  • Educator simplifies complex patchwork Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 1:03AMIf you’ve always liked the look of traditional 60-degree patchwork designs, but thought “no way am I going to spend time on those laborious set-in seams (also referred to as Y seams),” quilting expert and educator Marci Baker of Fort Collins may have the answer. Her newest book “ABC 3-D Tumbling Blocks ... and More!” features 16 projects using Baker’s easy strip-pieced method for a dazzling ...
  • Sew-In attracts patchwork of quilters Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 5:53AMOne wouldn’t call LaRae Rongey’s quilt a blue-ribbon contender.
  • Alternative Craft: Quilting With a Hard Edge Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 6:03PMAn alt-craft darling in Seattle uses traditional quilting techniques to create head-banging designs, under the label Quiltsryche.
  • Political seeds of sewing Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 3:52PMLANCASTER - By the time the last stitch is knotted next spring, the Mothertown Quilters Guild will have spent close to two years and sewn hundreds of thousands of tiny stitches into the Civil War reproduction quilt that they will raffle off on the 150th anniversary of a clash in Baltimore that is thought to be the first bloodshed of the Civil War and#8212; April 19, 2011.
  • Political seeds of sewing Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 3:38AMLANCASTER - By the time the last stitch is knotted next spring, the Mothertown Quilters Guild will have spent close to two years and sewn hundreds of thousands of tiny stitches into the Civil War reproduction quilt that they will raffle off on the 150th anniversary of a clash in Baltimore that is thought to be the first bloodshed of the Civil War - April 19, 2011.
  • Some Exceptional Garden Quilt Books Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 12:22AMQuilting has special appeal to gardeners for this offers ways to decorate the home with garden themes. Here are reviews of some excellent quilting books.
  • ‘Stitches Around The World’ provides a patchwork landscape Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 8:49AMQuilters and quilt lovers from Ellis County and surrounding areas arrived as the doors opened Friday morning for the seventh annual Quilt Show sponsored by Creative Quilters Guild of Ellis County.
  • Inviting quilts Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 10:58PMPatty Hawkins was a nervous wreck when she packed her children into a box, and shipped them from Estes Park, Colo., to Brigham City. read more
  • Step it up Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 7:05PMSpruce up the look of your stairs
  • Goal: 1 million pillowcases for charity Wednesday, June 16, 2010 @ 8:11AMKristina Medley
  • West Overton Museums uncovers 27th quilt show Sunday, June 6, 2010 @ 12:00AMThe creativity of local quilters will be on display at West Overton Museums, East Huntingdon, which launches its 27th annual quilt show, running today through June 20.
  • Barnstorming Portage County Monday, May 31, 2010 @ 11:52PMOver the winter, Justin Isherwood - farmer, author and amateur photographer- and 22 others decided it was time to account for all these barns of Portage County, in the middle of the state. In the end, they photographed 1,516 barns.
  • Italian cathedral’s tile designs floor quilter Sunday, May 30, 2010 @ 12:46AMThe inlaid tile designs in the floors of the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice astonished a quilter from Santa Barbara, Calif. While tourists around her craned their necks to marvel at the mosaic ceilings, Norah McMeeking couldn’t take her eyes off the colored marble patchwork beneath her feet.