Month: June 2013
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Preparing For Batik Watercolor Quilting Class
Preparing for the Batik Watercolor Quilting classes that the Pixeladies teach is not an easy task. There are many things that need to get done, and they are all very time consuming. The first thing I did was sort the fabric squares that had been mixed up from being used in the previous class. There were over…
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Tech Tuesday: How To Resize Images In Photoshop
I have learned a lot of new skills during the first week of my internship. One thing that I learned was that when you are uploading photos to the internet, you can resize them so they open quickly. I had used Photoshop before but never to resize photos for the internet. Here are the steps:…
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We Have A New Intern!
We are so excited! For the first time in Pixeladies history, the studio is hosting an intern! Meet Kelsi, who started on Monday and will continue with us fulltime until July 5, 2013. We had so much work to do in the studio, we didn’t know where to start, so we decided to clean a…
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Tech Tuesday: Threading Motion Project – Quilt Vignettes
Sometimes it isn’t the technology that’s new, it’s what a person does with it. I must admit, I’m not usually a big fan of video art installations, but Merli V. Guerra’s video at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles had me riveted. To create Threading Motion Project: Quilt Vignettes, Guerra chose six quilts…
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Batik Watercolor Class At Blue Line Arts
We’ll be teaching a mini-version of our batik watercolor quilt class at Blue Line Arts in Roseville, CA on Saturday, June 22, 2013. You can sign up here: http://www.rosevillearts.org/events/adultworkshopseries.html. What’s different about this class, you might ask? To begin with, no sewing required! Painters, sculptors, politicians, and athletes alike can try their hand at this. Second,…