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In honor of Count Your Buttons Day tomorrow, October 21, I did a little research on a button topic that has sparked my interest for a while: button strings. In Victorian times, young women in the U.S. would collect and trade buttons at parties, quiltingMore
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I was recently paging through the May/June 2006 issue of Quiltmaker when I found an article about a problem that is very much relevant to us beaders. In her article “The color-filled fabric pantry,” Heather Thomas writes, “Many quiltmakers buy only beautifulMore
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A while back, I was given a quilt kit with all the precut fabric to make a wall hanging. I’d never quilted from a kit before, but when I started assembling my wall hanging this weekend, I found that I still felt creatively challenged making a preconceivedMore
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I spent yesterday exploring another side of my creativity—I attended the Wisconsin Quilt Expo. In addition to all the great fabric, I saw beads, felting, and heat-set crystals, all to be incorporated into fabric projects. My creative brain is in highMore
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I’ve been thinking a lot about crafting generations. Recently, I read an article about a woman who was a fourth-generation button collector. Can you imagine the sentimental value of buttons collected by your great grandmother? I myself am a quilter, asMore
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