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Painted Quilts - Fly Away Black Bird Take a look at Linda's latest quilt to see how she's bringing the free motion quilting to life with fabric painting. |
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Drawing - Time Flies The first in our new series of shows focussing on drawing. Join Laura to get started with fast and furious observational sketches. |
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Charming Hearts Laura's using free-motion embroidery on soluble fabrics to make a collection of lovely heart charms. Perfect for valentine day gifts, embellishments for textile projects or to add to altered books! |
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Complementary Therapy In art and in nature some of the most exciting colour combinations involve complementary colours. See how you can use them with easy hand dyeing to produce glorious fabrics. |
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Photographic Textures Designing with collage is fun, fast and effective so what better materials to use than papers you've decorated yourself! Join Laura to see how she's using photographic textures to print papers full of interest and colour. |
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Exploring Monoprint Monoprint is a wonderful technique for creating pattern and linear designs. In today's show join Laura to see how she's using monoprint to prepare a range of fabrics for her quilts. |
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Quick Fix Knits We love to have a simple knitting project and these easy to knit cowls make the most of spare time and spare yarn. Join Linda to see how to make the most out of even the tiniest leftover balls. |
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Soya Wax Screenprinting Screenprinting isn't always user-friendly, but this method is perfect for making screens with immediate and characterful motifs or patterns. |
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Papermaking Essentials Recycling has become a way of life, but what about making your own paper from envelopes and other scrap paper? There really can't be another more satisfying way to deal with junk mail! In this show see how simple it is to make a whole stack of beautiful papers using basic equipment. |
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Altered Book "Moths" First Steps Are you intrigued by the ideas and processes involved in altering books? Linda's embarked on a new book and in this show she shares the first steps of getting started, from establishing the theme, modifying the pages and adding new imagery. |
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Festive Paper and Stitch The holiday season is approaching fast so why not spare a few minutes to make some special greetings cards for your family and friends? Laura's using paper collage with hand and machine stitch to create these fun, quirky cards. |
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Painterly Applique Iris - Part 2 Linda's completed the first in her new series of floral applique quilts. Take a look at how she quilted the piece and find out what she's making with the left over scraps of hand dyed fabrics! |
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Painterly Applique Iris - Part 1 Learn how to transform simple bonded applique shapes into beautiful painterly images that are full of detail. In this show Linda's working with iris flowers, but you could apply the same methods to any bloom! |
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Hand Dyeing Great results with hand dyeing are easier than you might think. In this show Laura demonstrates how to introduce gorgeous visual texture to your next batch of beautifully coloured fabrics. |
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Finding Inspiration for Quilting Traditional quilting patterns can be lovely, but why not create some of your own? In this show Laura demonstrates how a source of inspiration can be captured and developed quickly and easily to make beautiful designs for hand or machine quilting. |
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Discover The Needle Museum We use needles almost every day, but how often do we think about how this simple tool is made? Jo-Ann Gloger, the Keeper of Collections takes us for a tour around The Needle Museum to discover the fascinating history of needle making. |
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Books for Collectors In this show Laura shares her latest handmade books. The simple construction with integrated pockets makes them perfect to house collections of photos, postcards, fabric samples, you name it! |
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Ink Resist Join Linda as she experiments with an exciting mixed media resist technique that we think you'll love to use in your sketchbook and other art work. |
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Pieced Landscape In today's show Linda puts her hand painted fabrics to good use in this pieced landscape panel. Combining free-cut curves, quilting, digital embroidery and fabric painting there are lots of elements working together in this little quilt. |
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With Hand and Heart Join Linda and Laura for a guided tour of their 2011 exhibit With Hand and Heart. The exhibition includes both new and retrospective quilts and in this show they'll tell you the stories and techniques behind some of the pieces. |
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The Accordion Bag - how to make it! The accordion bag can be adapted to suit many different purse frame styles. In today's extended show join Laura to find out how to devise the pattern pieces to suit your own purse frame and of course, how to make the bag! |
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The Accordion Bag Often we find inspiration for our textile pieces in many different places and we're able to put into practise skills and ideas gathered from working in other craft areas. Join Laura to see where the idea for her new Accordion bag and purses came from and find out more about the digital embroidery techniques used to make them. |
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Art to Wear - a closer look Join Laura to find out more about the garments that made up our 'Art to Wear' creation for Festival of Quilts Fashion Show 2011. Learn about the techniques employed and the inspiration behind the collection. |
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Recycled Wearables In today's show take a closer look at our 'Daywear' outfit for the Festival of Quilts Fashion Show and join Linda to find out how to make your own feather brooch or charm. |
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Through the Looking Glass Today Linda is joined by Catherine Nicholls who's working on her latest quilt, an intriguing piece inspired by the themed challenge 'Through the Looking Glass'. |
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Spraying Fabrics We've used spray techniques in one of our creations for a recent fashion show. Join Laura to take a closer look at the garment and find out how you can achieve the same effects on a beautiful chiffon scarf. |
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Dye Painting Introduce some control to your fabric colouring with dye painting! In today's show Linda works with thickened dyes to create range of exciting fabrics for a new project. |
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Who are you? Whether you're attending a national quilt show or a local class there's nothing better to break the ice than a friendly handmade name badge. Join Laura in today's show as she shares her ideas for easy badges in fabric or paper. |
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Combining Techniques Here on DMTV we've featured numerous techniques including printing, dyeing and stitch. Putting it all together is where the fun really starts and our own work is often created using a combination of favourite methods. In this show take a look at how Laura's latest work has translated from sketchbook page experiments to stitched textile using monoprint, block print and applique. |
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Perfect Presentation It's lots of fun to work small - journal quilts for example are all the rage at the moment, but how to present them? It can be tricky to display smaller quilts and embroideries. Join Laura to take a look at some of the solutions she uses to make the most of her work. |
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Drawing - tricks and cheats! Part 2 Be confident with your drawing! Use bold strokes of graphite pencil and lift out highlights with an eraser before adding as much detail as you want. Hopefully by the end of this show, you'll love drawing! This show will be available until 16th March 2012 |
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Drawing - tricks and cheats! We all know we ought to draw more, but getting started can be daunting particularly if you haven't drawn for a while, or maybe ever! There are some simple tricks and cheats to help and in this show Laura demonstrates some of her favourites. This show will be available until 9th March 2012 |
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Re-arranging with Railfence Multi-coloured hand dyed fabrics can be show stoppers, but hard to combine with other fabrics to create a successful quilt. Laura's using the simple strip patchwork block Railfence to create painterly quilt tops each pieced from a single fabric. This show will be available until 2nd March 2012 |
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Pencilled In - Adding Stitch Now that you have a beautiful drawing on fabric why not embellish the surface with stitch?. Linda's combining machine quilting with hand stitches to complete her drawn panels. This show will be available until 23rd February 2012 |
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Pencilled In - On Fabric! If you enjoy drawing on paper then why not on fabric? Simple drawing with soluble pencils works beautifully and can be made permanent too. In this show Linda demonstrates how and shares her latest work. This show will be available until 16th February 2012 |
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Pencilled In Watersoluble pencils are the happy medium between the comfort of pencil drawing and the fluid washes of watercolour painting. Join Linda in today's show to see her latest sketchbook studies of plants using nothing more than the humble soluble pencil! This show will be available until 16th February 2012 |
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