How an ACN Meeting Leads to Support for the Ukraine
From April 3 to 6, 2022, I met Art Cloth Network (ACN) members for the first time in person at our annual conference in Austin, TX....
Maria Billings, Artist
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- Jul 23
Rediscovering Childhood Joys in 30 Stitches
One of my pleasures as a child was embroidery. I had my own set of colored yarns and was very proud of it. Sometimes, I stitched...
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- Jul 6
My Adventures with the Orient Express
From childhood on, train rides were positive experiences for me. So, you won’t be surprised that I participated in the fictitious,...
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- Apr 15
Emma FOREVER CHANGED my Life
SAQA Northern California/ Nevada had a call for entry to explore diverse facets of the question if and how we and our lives have changed...
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- Jan 4
Creating a Panel for the Orient Express
After I finished my planned textile panels for the SAQA Orient Express, I offered the remaining wagon to the members, but nobody wanted...
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- Sep 13, 2021
Twelve Challenges: A Creative Response to Chaos
“Chaos” is defined as: complete disorder and confusion. Covid-19 created disorder and confusion world-wide. How do creative people react...
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- Nov 26, 2020
Art in the Time of the Pandemic
Yesterday, I visited the Blue Line Arts Gallery in Roseville. https://www.bluelinearts.org 405 Vernon Street, Roseville, CA 95678 (916)...
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- Sep 22, 2020
Crafting Sustainability
It’s obvious, if we want to pass on a world that’s worth living in, every small effort towards sustainability helps. In this post, I’m...
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- Sep 2, 2020
Inspired by Current Questions
In previous blog posts I wrote about various areas of inspiration: 1 Inspired by Nature 2 Inspired by Kandinsky and Geometry 3 Inspired...
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- Jul 23, 2020
Inspired by Fractals
I’m not a mathematician, but I find certain concepts do inspire my work, for example, fractals. Many of the following quotes are from the...
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