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Lottery for the Arts 2019
Blue Line Arts is one of our favorite regional art galleries. This March, Blue Line is hosting its 11th annual Lottery for the Arts. We had never donated to this worthy cause before, so we decided that this year would be a good time to do so. As we delivered our piece, we ran into…
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GYST: Tracking Your Artwork
It’s Tuesday, and we have another Tech Tuesday installment. This time we want to talk about the importance of tracking your artwork. It really doesn’t matter which method you use: paper and pencil, Excel spreadsheets, index cards. The important thing is that you keep track of your artwork (your family will thank you). We use…
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Katharine McCormick: Two Diaphragms Are Better Than One
It’s Kris, back with another post about our KDM project for the 2020 exhibition, Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. We’ve already blogged about some of the technical issues in creating this piece and some biographical information (see below for links to these posts), but today we want to put the technical and the…
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Fabric Messages AT 48 Natoma
This is Deb saying that If you find yourself in the Sacramento area between now and March 9, 2019, take the extra drive out to Folsom to see the Fabric Messages exhibit at the Gallery at 48 Natoma.* Under the curatorial vision of Cindy Abraham, this unassuming gallery has quite a history of promoting both nationally known and…
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Deb’s India Trip part 2 – Colorful India
Color, color, and more color! When you like bright colors as much as I do, India is paradise. I talked about my favorite place in my previous post about India. This time I’m just going to share some colorful eye candy. The colorful Vehicles One of the statements I write in my bio is that the world…
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Marketing 101 – Customer Satisfaction
Deb gives some nifty advice on what a great customer satisfaction card looks like.
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Deb’s India Trip Part 1
Do you have a bucket list? You know, that list of things you want to do before you “kick the bucket?” I’m really not a bucket list kind of gal, but there was one thing I really wanted to see in person: the Kailasa Temple in the Ellora Cave complex in India. I think it…
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Practicing for Focus on Fiber Florida Style
Deb’s in India, so I thought I would take the opportunity to practice some of the upcycling skills Deb taught me. If you remember, Deb will be teaching at Focus on Fiber Florida Style in April. You can read about it by clicking here. She helped me with the dress shown above. While Deb was…
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Art Quilts Unfolding
“Wow! That’s one heavy box.” said my husband as he handed me (Deb) the package from Schiffer Publishing. “Wow!” I said as I tore the box open. I don’t think I’ve had a book that large and heavy since the days of college textbooks. This is no mere coffee table book, this book has meat!…
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Happy Holidays!
Just a short note to let you know that the studio will be closed through January 17. Deb is going to India, which has been on the top of her bucket list for years. Kris is going to stay close to home, taking a short trip to help her sister organize her new house near…
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Katharine McCormick and MIT
This is Kris, back with another installment on our piece for the 2020 exhibition, Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. We chose Katharine McCormick as our subject not simply because she was so instrumental in the women’s suffrage movement; she furthered women’s rights wherever she set foot. And the first place she happened…
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The Google Keep App
Do you keep a notebook in your purse? Or do you just write notes on any scrap of paper when you have an idea? I’m of the latter persuasion. My desk was covered with notes written on napkins, return mail envelopes, and pages from the numerous notepads I purchase but forget to put in my…
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Our New Website!
The Pixeladies have a new website! As much as we loved our old one, it was time to move on to a more modern, fresher look.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Just a short note to let you know that we are taking a little break this week to spend time with our families. We are so grateful for them as we are for our friends, students, and colleagues. We would also like to pause a moment and thank all the wonderful firefighters who have been…
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Building A House Quilt To Share
Our friend and fellow artist, Jamie Fingal, is collecting 14″ x 14″ quilts that feature a house for people transitioning from homelessness and starting a home. Jamie has partnered with Furnishing Hope on this project. We decided to make our own house quilt to donate to this great cause, and we also love to take a…
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Antoni Gaudí’s Barcelona
Spain did not disappoint. Antoni Gaudí’s Barcelona was as magical as I thought it would be. What artist intentionally starts something that he knows he will never see to completion? La Sagrada Familia My first stop was Gaudí’s masterwork, La Sagrada Familia. This temple is amazing in so many ways. The highly decorated nativity façade…
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Tech Tuesday: Why We Stopped Printing Our Own Fabric
We are no longer printing our own fabric. Cost, time, and other resources are the main reasons.
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Teaching at Focus on Fiber Florida Style
Wanna get away? Why not join me at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida for Focus on Fiber? I’m going to be teaching a 2-day workshop on Improvisational Upcycling with T-shirts, April 7-8, 2019. What is Improvisational Upcycling? Improvise: to make or fabricate out of what is conveniently on…
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Katharine McCormick: The Facelift
It’s Deb, back with the another post on our project for the 2020 exhibition, Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. In our last post about the project, we talked about how we chose the face color. This time we’ll show you how we gave Katharine McCormick a bit of a facelift. Liquify Filter…
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The Pixeladies Turn 15!
Has it really been fifteen years since we paddled around Deb’s pool, dreaming up a way to start a business? It seems like yesterday when we decided to call ourselves the Pixeladies, but now that we’ve taken stock of what we’ve done these past fifteen years, it really has been a long time. You can…
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My Love Affair With Mosaics
This is Deb. I’m in the airport right now and thinking about mosaics.* I’ve forgotten when my love affair with mosaics started. It was definitely before I visited the Magic Gardens in Philadelphia. And before visiting the House of Shards at the Abita Mystery House in Abita Springs, Louisiana. It…
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Tech Tueday: The Pixeladies, WordPress & Gutenberg
This is Kris with a big confession. It’s time to update our website. We use WordPress to create our website. There are two basic pieces to WordPress: how the site “looks” and how you “edit” your information. While we still like the look of the website, it just doesn’t work anymore with all the different…
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Behind the Scenes at Quilting Arts TV
We flew to Cleveland, Ohio last week to film three segments for Quilting Arts TV. We met up with our colleague Jane Haworth (pronounce it like Howard, but replace the “d” with “th”) at the airport for a red-eye flight to Cleveland. The bad part about taking a night flight is that you usually arrive…
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“Apple Records” and the 2018 SAQA Benefit Auction
If you are regular readers of the Pixeladies blog, you know that we are big supporters of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) and especially its annual benefit auction. We’ve individually bought quilts at auction, but as the Pixeladies we try to also donate a quilt every year. Last year we were unable to donate a…
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What (Not) To Wear (On TV)
It’s Kris here, with a fun dilemma. Let me just shout it out: Holy spandex, Batman, the Pixeladies are going to be on TV, and we don’t have a thing to wear! I know, back up. “You’re gonna be on TV?” you might be asking. Yep. We’ll be filming three segments for the long-running Quilting Arts…
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Katharine McCormick: Choosing A Face Color
It’s Deb, back with the next episode of our project for the exhibition Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. In Part 2, you may recall we decided to try something different and make our text collage in black and white and add the color in Photoshop. This post is about choosing the…
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Why We Go To The Movies
It seems like a silly question. Doesn’t everyone go to the movies (or at least watch them at home)? While most people do just that for the enjoyment of it — and we’re no exception — we love to go to the movies for inspiration. Ogle all you want over George Clooney (and we do),…
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Kris’ 2018 SAQA Dream Collection
As Deb mentioned in our last post, it’s time again to start dreaming about the perfect art collection in the form of six amazing 12″ x 12″ art quilts from the annual SAQA Benefit Auction (Sep 17 – Oct 7). Deb actually posted not one, but two dream collections. I, on the other hand, have been…
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Deb’s 2018 SAQA Dream Collection
It’s getting to be that time of year again. Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) holds an auction of amazing 12″ x 12″ art quilts in September. This year it goes from September 14 through October 7, so mark your calendar! In addition to seeing all the quilts, you can view members’ dream collections of six…
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Tech Tuesday: Capture and capture
I was sitting outside, minding my own business, reading a no-brainer book, when Art Brain (thanks, Lynn Krawczyk, for introducing me to the term) sprang to life. I kept thinking about an upcoming project. I wanted to have just the right color palette. Adobe Color, I thought to myself. Too comfortable to venture inside to the…