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34
features
18 Something to Crow About
A mixed-media fabric collage
D I A N E T AY L O R

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24 Easy Pet Portraits

Use photographs to create
original fabric paintings

TABLE OF

contents

J A N E L A FA Z I O

28 Artist Profile:
Allison & Tracy Stilwell
C AT E C O U L A C O S P R AT O

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32 Beaded Felt Necklace

T R A C Y A N D A L L I S O N S T I LW E L L

34 Kitchen Poetry with

Vintage Spoon Books
KELLI PERKINS
Stir up some colorful pages

40 Artist to Artist with Amy Orr

LESLEY RILEY

44 Feeling Chair-itable
ALLISON BERRINGER
Create colorful keepsakes

48 Collage Mania
Fiberart for a cause

each issue

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Musings

Now Read This

The In-Box

Who Did This?

10

Popping the Question:

12

Tell us how youre going green

in your artwork. We want to hear
how you are repurposing, recycling,
and re-creating.

The Workshop:

SUE PELLETIER

56 Art: The anti-boredom

solution for kids
E L I N WA T E R S T O N
Have fun with three great projects

62 Dream Houses, Part II

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Unique uses for canvas boards

JENN MASON

J U D Y C O AT E S P E R E Z
Constructing your dream house

68 Submissions Guidelines

Marketplace

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69 Mixed-media Tea Party

Reader Challenge

Classifieds and Ad Index

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70 Straight from My Soul

Chasing the Red Balloon

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L O R E T TA B E N E D E T T O M A R V E L

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52 Seat Yourself
Collage & paint
some comfy chairs

On the cover: Tea Time by

Diane Taylor and vintage spoon books
by Kelli Perkins

MAY/JUNE 2008

C L O T H P A P E R SC I S S O R S

SHARI BEAUBIEN
Paint from within

74 Special Section: STUDIOS Sneak Peek

A look into the creative spaces of four of
your favorite fiber and mixed-media artists:
Claudine Hellmuth, Helen Cowans, Shari
Beaubien, and Kelly Rae Roberts