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Like Free Stuff? I’m giving away a fat pile of hand-dyed and screened fabric!

It’s time for my second Maudlin-Free Monday giveaway (and yes, I realize it is Tuesday, but are we really going to quibble about this when I’m giving away free fabric?)

A little bit about this second batch of fabric I am giving away…

I have a huge love for painting, dyeing, stamping, stenciling, screening, and printing fabric in my free time, and in the summer of 2010 my (then future) colleagues at Quilts, Inc., invited me to come to La Grange, Texas–the same town as the new Texas Quilt Museum–to play with them and teach them some of my favorite surface design techniques.

We dyed fabric:

We did deconstructed screen printing:

And oohed and aaahed at the results:

And oohed and ached and jumped for joy as they flapped dry in the Texas wind…

We also played with Thermofax screen printing:

Me with Ruth Polanco, Show Director

And yes, we played until the cows came home.

I have learned that a team that works and plays together, stays together!

Want to win some fabric?

All you need to do is answer the following question and I’ll choose a winner randomly this upcoming Friday.

My Question: We all love to learn new quilt techniques. In fact, in case you might have missed it, we have a quick online survey that we would LOVE for you to take to help us offer classes you want at International Quilt Festival.

But back to my question: What is the one thing you want to learn how to do right now?

For me, I want to be brave enough to try bobbin embroidery. I recently met with Ellen Anne Eddy and she made it look so easy (and fun)!  So that is next on my list. What about you?

March 20, 2012by Pokey Bolton
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Welcome. I’m Pokey Bolton, founder of Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines, and Founding Host of Quilting Arts TV on PBS. With my experience in publishing, media, events, and craft adventures (by land and sea), I fairly recently founded Crafting a Life, LLC...

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