04/30/2011
Check out some good reads by other SDA members here. Bhakti Ziek recommends “Just Kids” by Patti Smith; Laura Sapelly recommends “Twelve by Twelve: The International Art Quilt Challenge”; Marjorie Fedyszyn recommends “1000 Artisan Textiles” and Donna Joslyn recommends “Digital Essentials”. Share what you’re reading!
Read how textile entrepreneur Laura Foster Nicholson uses Spoonflower.com, a print-on-demand fabric service, to satisfy her pattern compulsion! Then come to SDA Confluence conference (June/Minneapolis) and let both Nicholson & Stephen Fraser, co-founder of Spoonflower, inspire you to express your vision in prints.
04/28/2011
One in a growing number of SDA’s “Men in Quilts”, Joe Cunningham has been working in the medium since 1979. Follow along as he takes you through his process on a breakthrough quilt he made in 2006. Creative sparks along his way home in San Francisco’s Presidio ignited his imagination, leading him to freely fuse the ideas and materials that took him to a new level of working “in flow”.
04/12/2011
SDA AoE program was started in 2002 to acknowledge outstanding creativity or innovation in a work using surface design/fiber-related media. Check out 5 recent winners here, each of whom received a full year of SDA membership. Detail of “Uprooted”, an award-winning work by Adrienne Sloan, is shown at left.
