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Here it is in its taped corrugated glory – Surtex Booth #550!  There’s a lot of paint, and foam, and paper, and fire-code-sanctioned flame-proofing, and adorable baby robots, and argyle elephants, and jumpin’ monkeys, and you name it – it’s in there. Now to tackle the seasonal 6″ paper-flurry that has blanketed the studio…

Not long ago, I reopened Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt given to us by our friend Emily at this book shower in 2008.  The full-page full-color images are gorgeous and the writing is both a history of the place over several decades and a bit of art criticism – the good kind of academic in tone.  It wasn’t

As we’ve been getting to love to our amazing new Wacom Cintiq 21UX’s (which, for me, was not love-at-first-sight, but rather, a slowly-endearing romantic-comedy-style realize-the-ugly-girl-with-glasses-is-actually-your-soulmate-and-now-a-total-babe type of love), every now and then I’ll use Spoonflower’s fabric design of the week theme as a jumping-off place for learning to do more and more with our new equipment.  Here are the swatches