Many thanks to Kathy Shaw of Shawkl for the heads-up.

The main emphasis is to give an impression about each month, to journal your experiences and record your feelings in a visual way. The secondary emphasis is to challenge yourself to expand and develop your technical skills.

Get all the details from the site.

MarieE

In creating these feathers we talked a lot about various forms of collaboration. Personally I think collaboration is a vital part of being a contemporary artist, and including collaboration in the classes I teach to both adults and children is a form of community building and social consciousness-raising.

Find out more and see more photos at Marie’s blog post.

You need to register to participate and everyone who does will get some kind of prize. Prizes include thread packs, books, coupons good for my ebooks, discounts on classes and more. Here’s how it works. If you want to participate, contact me to register. Just for signing up this week you’ll get a 25-point bonus, signups after Sept 26 get only a 10 point bonus. The goal is to finish projects that are under 10 inches square. For each registered piece you finish, you’ll get points. Points will be totaled and prizes awarded after December 21.

Get more juicy details from Janet’s blog post.

Here’s how it works: The names of all the participants pop up at the left side of the screen as they log on. On the right side of the screen is a running chat feed, where participants can talk to one another, to the C&T host, and to the artist doing a demo. A box at the bottom of the screen lets you input questions or comments that then pop up in the chat feed. And in the center of the screen is the video feed.

For the episode I watched, Lisa Fulmer of C&T welcomed everyone and explained how the Digital Lounge format works. Then she shifted control to our beloved Victoria, who (being a pro at vlogging and such) did a superb job of introducing her tools and supplies and stepping through a technique demo, making it accessible to viewers of all levels of experience. As she demoed, Lisa followed up with notes and links in the chat feed, letting viewers check out Victoria’s web site, directing them to sources of the supplies Victoria mentioned, and answering some of the viewers’ questions. Victoria also checked the chat feed regularly and responded to viewers’ remarks.

The whole thing was so lively and interesting — so successful — that I got caught up, and a couple of times I started typing a question or comment before I remembered that this was the replay!

Congratulations to C&T for offering this remarkable venue for artists and crafters. And congratulations to Victoria for preparing and delivering outstanding content with humor and charm.

Go to the C&T site for links to all of the replays available so far and all of the upcoming episodes. And plan to be on hand for the next Wednesday Night Live webcast. I know I will!

DMC is giving away five (5) limited edition French hardbound diaries that contain beautiful inspiring photos of needlework. The back of the book features patterns and charts for the designs shown, and includes both vintage and new designs for you to stitch as well as pages where you can keep track of your important events.

Go to the blog post for entry details.

Amy

We are going to have a great year in 2011!!!  As usual, we will be doing lots of stitching, chatting, laughing, shopping and eating, and more!  We will be spending 4 days (open from 8 a.m. – midnight) in an oceanfront conference center with our stitching & exchanges!

If you’d like to join in, go to the site to register.

TAFA continues to move forward with its plans for a new website…Members will each have their own landing pages and all products that show up in the search will link back to their pages.  The site will also have many other tools for both members and guests.  It will be beautiful, fun and educational.  I believe that TAFA will become one of the leading sites in the textile/fiber art field.   I want this to be done yesterday already!  But, first we need to raise some money to get there.  $5,000 is the price for this beauty.  Our members have already contributed $1,000 towards our goal, so we have another $4,000 to get there.  YOU can help!

Find out what you can do from the TAFA newsletter.

Do you love Bargello? Are you looking for a source of new Bargello Needlepoint designs and quick projects? Do you want explore different threads for Bargello and try new color combinations? Are you intrigued to fill templates using Bargello? Look no further, beginning April 1, 2011, I will be launching Little Bargello Treasures, a monthly Bargello Club. The first of each month club members will receive:
13 or 18 mesh deluxe mono canvas with template outlined
new Bargello pattern with color picture of the model
stitching tips and supplemental information

All this for only $7.50 per month when shipped to US addresses (if you are outside the US, contact me to get pricing). This club is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time and you’ll be so delighted with the possibilities for quick and charming projects.

For details or to sign up, go to Janet’s blog post.