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Line Mastery from The Snarky Quilter

As part of my January lines challenge I viewed work I admired by artists ranging from the renowned Paul Klee to textile designer Lucienne Day. I’ll be showing the second part of my January lines challenge soon, but first I … Continue reading →

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Line By Line from The Snarky Quilter

Temporal challenges to create art abound on social media: 100 days of postcards, 52 weeks of collages, a year of daily ambient temperatures, etc. I wanted to begin 2021 with some sort of daily art prompt, but I didn’t know … Continue reading →

added by snarkyquilter 3 years, 10 months ago. under challenges , freezer paper as resist , in process , lines , monoprinting , techniques (Comments)

This time... LINES from Fleur de Lis Quilts and Accessories

Remember my pictures for inspiration post from last week? Well, I guess I really like the concept, because I took another walk, this time on the search for lines.

a fence line

Trees have always been a big deal to me. I'm not sure just what it is exactly, their grandeur, their ability to clean the air, their home site capabilities, their colors and beauty. If you've ever seen the changing colors of the leaves in fall, or fledgling bluebirds following the mama from branch to branch, or Spanish moss dripping in the fog, you'd get it ...

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tactic 23. Lines part 2 from Devious Quiltmaking

Part 1 is *here*. (The block above is a Nine Patch cross.)

All stripes can be cut cross or long.

The stripes in any one block can be cross, long, or a mixture – you have to figure out what you want. I’m especially fond of the swirling effect you can get with a mixture of cross and long. (The block is Calico Puzzle.)

When two striped patches touch, you can decide whether to match them (so that they look as though the two were a single piece of cloth), to cut them any old which way, or to align ...

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