Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Designing Repeat Patterns
One of the most commonly used designs on fabric is a repeat pattern design. Repeat patterns are easy to make in Photoshop Elements using the Offset feature and simple copy and past. So let’s get started …
Note: This tutorial is for Photoshop Elements 6 but the steps are probably similar in other versions.
1. Download the image
Purses Totes & Handbags Updated for July
Head over to the Free Purses Totes & Handbags listings and click on the Alphabetical Section “Added July 2010″ for the links to the tutorials for the following fabulous bags, purses and totes.
Enjoy …
New in the Store – Delicious Art Bags
I’ve just added some lovely new handbags to the store so stop by and check them out. Careful though, no drooling on your keyboard. These handbags are just the perfect size to travel lightly and brightly through your day, so make a statement and …
Wear Your Art on Your Arm
Stitch, Cloth, Paper, Paint
If you follow my blog, you should know by now that I love to work with fabric paper.
and I use it for all sorts of projects.
So if you love using fabric paper also, then you’re sure to love this book I recently stumbled across…
Inspiration For All You Eccentric Fashionistas
What inspires you …
to be daring …
to be different
Be inspired by Iris Apfel …
Arts on Stage
If you’re in the Daytona Beach, Florida area on the 14th and 15th August, stop by and visit with me and get a close up and personal look at my digital art on fabric at a special event …
Arts on Stage
Arts on Stage is a two day event being held INDOORS!! (yayyyyy!!!!) in the air conditioned comfort of the lovely Peabody Center where you can browse and shop for local fine arts and crafts and as this is a juried event you know there will be some lovely artwork on display.
Chaos and Order
Way back when I was dressmaking I once had a client who freaked out when she saw all her beautiful fabric cut into pieces and lying on my sewing room table. She took one look at her beautiful Chinese silk fabric that was once yardage which had been hidden away in her closet for 20 years and asked that I pack it up so she could take it home because she wasn’t happy with the mess I was making. At the time I had only cut out the pieces and had yet to put one stitch to it so I guess in her eyes all she saw was a sloppy bunch of irregular shaped pieces of fabric haphazardly strewn over my table.
In The Garden
I haven’t made an art quilt in such a long time being so absorbed recently with my art bags, so I was a little nostalgic when my art quilt “Pomegranate” returned home to me last week after touring the country with the “Fibrations” exhibit for the last 12 months.
Synchronicity
This is what my work table looks like at the moment … Look past the mess and notice the colors – all blues and greens, very cool and soothing.
These are not colors I normally work with, in fact they’re not colors I’ve ever worked with; a little too trendy and cool. I like my colors bold and strong. Like this …
Art Trader Magazine
The latest issue of Art Trader Magazine is now available for download.
Art Trader Magazine is a free publication for those interested in trading art. Even if you aren’t into trading art or cards, you’re sure to find the articles informative and entertaining – I always do!
I’m in the process of reorganizing my websites and this involves moving my blog here on the Creative Textile and Quilting Arts website to my blog over at 
If you missed out on the recent free “Fabric Paper” mini-class which was held over at the 
I'm Linda Matthews and welcome to my website. As a textile artist I love to experiment with all sorts of different textile and art quilting techniques; and as I teacher I love to share. I hope you enjoy my website. 
