Month: August 2011
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Inspiration and Online Classes
I guess it all started in 1985. While I was working in Zurich for a summer, I got to visit the Verzasca Valley in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. It was breathtaking–the landscape, the color of the water, the fireflies, the lightning off in the distance. In 2000, I returned with my friend Weslee, whose…
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Organizing Patterns with Photoshop Elements
At the American Sewing Guild’s national conference in Los Angeles, we gave a short presentation about organizing your patterns with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. The Organizer portion of Elements is a great way to catalog photos, videos, music, and yes, even sewing patterns. If you want to use the tags we created for patterns, save the…
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Working on Faith . . . Ringgold that is!
Sometimes you just have to pinch yourself. I still can’t believe that we – yes, the Pixeladies – have been invited to create a quilt in honor of Faith Ringgold. An entire event is being planned to honor her at City College of New York. She’s an alumna of the college and will be the…
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Linking WordPress to Facebook
Hey, we’re trying to figure out if our blog entry will automatically post to Facebook, if we tell WordPress to do so. So here’s an image to check it all out.
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Join Us at the ASG National Conference!
We’re packing our bags for the American Sewing Guild’s national conference in Los Angeles August 19-21. (OK, that’s not really true. We’re actually running around getting all of our teaching materials ready, but that doesn’t sound like the organized Pixeladies we always claim to be.) Despite this small confession, we really hope you can join us there.…
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Art and Community
Deb and I recently returned from a meeting of the Northern California Quilt Council. They devote two meetings a year to “Meet the Teachers.” Any member interested in teaching at a guild can sign up to present her/his classes to other members. These meetings attract upwards of two hundred people. We always come away inspired…