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Fiber and Stitch Magazine

If you subscribe to Fiber and Stitch Magazine keep an eye out for one of my articles being published in the November issue.

If you don’t subscribe to the magazine, do yourself a favor and check it out. It’s a great magazine, every issue chock full of wonderful techniques and projects for textile and quilt artists - well worth the subscription fee.

Support SAQA’s One Foot Square

Support SAQA’s One Foot Square Auction

Bidding starts at 2:00 Eastern/11:00 Pacific on Monday, November 10th.

The auction for Group I will begin November 10th. Group II will begin November 18th. And Group III will begin November 28th. For information on how our Reverse Auction will work, click here.

My donation “a leaf falls” can be viewed here.

Copyright For Dummies

Photo courtesy of PugnoM

The issue of copyright is always a hot topic amongst artists and the rules are confusing and difficult to understand.

I recently came across the Free Culture website which offers up some very interesting information, video and audio articles, including a link to the Creative Commons website. The Creative Commons website provides information on how to go about creating your own copyright policy as well as information on how to police it. In other words, you can now apply your copyright in language that anyone can understand. This copyright can be applied to work published on the internet as well as off the internet.

I am beginning to see more and more around the internet, that people are using a Creative Commons copyright. Images in particular, like the one in this article, are freely available under a Creative Commons copyright.
As textile and quilt artists, most of us live in fear of our copyright being abuser, a fear that is like a double edged sword. On one hand we fear having our work copied and ripped off, and on the flip side we fear having to deal with the repercussions because we simply are not sure of what they are.

I, for one, have decided to embrace the “Creative Commons” license and will in fact be revising all my online works to be covered under one of these licenses. A great idea in a world gone mad!

The Scariest Colors Imaginable

Color

For textile and quilt artists, that’s a scary thought!

The ColorLovers blog has an interesting article about this very thing and even lists the phobias associated with each color.

“For most people, color is basic element of our daily lives that we use for comfort, inspiration, practicality, etc. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, phobias and irrational fears affect approximately 10% of adults. Some of those phobias relate to colors being the most terrifying thing imaginable… for those poor people, this color loving website would probably be hell-incarnate. Here are several color phobias and some of color associations with common and strange phobias.”

Read the full article: ColorLoversBlog