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The Empire State Building goes tie dye and the photographers have some fun. Click on the picture to see more from New York.
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Empire State Building Goes Tie Dye
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The Empire State Building goes tie dye and the photographers have some fun. Click on the picture to see more from New York.
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Every year at Halloween C&T Publishing holds a costume contest.....and first place winner is...........(gotta love our Publisher).
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In last week's newsletter, we asked you to guess the use for this unusual item, which we found while strolling through the booths at the Houston Quilt Festival. All is now revealed! It's an antique button sorter, which was offered for sale by Sandy Schor & Co. Each metal paddle was designed to hold a specific quantity of buttons of a specific size.
Workers in the factory would scoop the paddle into large bins filled with thousands of specifically sized buttons. When the scoop was given a slight shake, each button would find its home in the indentations, while the remaining loose buttons would fall off the paddle and back into the bin. Then the buttons, thus counted, could be packaged and made ready for sale to retail shops.
Shell buttons derive from shells, just as the name implies. These buttons could be core drilled from a large shell to produce a single large button (center top), or from numerous places in the shell to produce smaller buttons (two items at left). Children's garments and women's blouses required very small buttons (center bottom). These tiny embellishments were drilled from even smaller bits of shell. The piece of shell shown on the bottom right is the "remains" after these tiniest buttons have been drilled and removed.
Shell buttons are no longer manufactured in the United States. Sandy Schor, who specializes in vintage jewelry, trims, buttons, and other collectible items, recently bought out the last core- drilling pearl button factory in New England. As part of the agreement, Sandy was required to take the entire stock of pearl buttons, along with the machinery used to produce them. It took ten semi trucks (!) to transport 300,000 mother-of-pearl buttons and numerous button sorters, as well as the factory's machinery, back to Ft. Worth, TX.
If you look closely, you just might see some of the sorters and machinery in the recent film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Sandy leased the entire stock (minus the buttons) to the film's producers for use in that movie, which starred Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
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There is still time to enter to win one of 24 Fat Quarters from The City Quilter's line titled "New York Collection". Yes, there will be 24 lucky winners. But the deadline to enter is tonight at midnight!
To enter, click on ILoveNewYork@thequiltshow.com and type in "City Quilter". Contest is open to everyone worldwide, so enter before tonight, Monday, October 26, 2009 at midnight PST.
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Celebrate New York in your quilting, thanks to The City Quilter. The first of their own "New York Collection" designed by The City Quilter is titled "Olde New York".
These stylized picture postcards from the 1930's feature the "sights" of New York as they looked back then: St. Patrick's Cathedral, Pennsylvania Station, the Empire State Building, the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Bridge, Chrysler Building, Flatiron Building, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central Terminal, and more. And "Olde New York" is avilable in three background colorways.
The second fabric is titled “NYC Subway”, which features an all-over design of New York City’s famous subway map, licensed from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Striking in black, white and map-natural beige background colorways, this fabric is instantly recognizable--around the planet.
To celebrate, The City Quilter is giving away 24 Fat Quarters from the "New York Collection" to 24 lucky TQS winners. To enter, click on ILoveNewYork@thequiltshow.com and type in "City Quilter". Contest ends Monday, October 26, 2009 at midnight PST. This contest is open to everyone worldwide, so enter today!
All of the "New York Collection" fabrics are owned by and exclusively available from The City Quilter, online, by phone or in the store. Look for the next addition of this collection in late Spring 2010. Click here to order yours!
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(Amy Ronis' "Kitschin' Jane")
For the first time, quilts are being seen in Times Square!
The City Quilter arranged with Panasonic to provide free time on its 28 ft X 38 ft Astrovision screen, high above Times Square, to promote their "MADE IN NEW YORK: City Quilting" Exhibition, taking place just a few blocks away at the Williams Club. The 15 second spot runs every 7 1/2 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, through the end of the exhibition on November 14.
("Wildlife" by Ellen Highsmith Silver)
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Yesterday we enjoyed and celebrated a huge group of talented dancers in downtown Chicago along with the Black Eyed Peas. Check out what just one kid (a student at Yale) managed to pull off. Talent is in the air!
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Click on Picture to go to PBS site. Choose Chapter 2 of 8.
In the PBS Series on Craft in America, they explore the way quilting enhances lives and how it brings together a diverse group of people. Be sure to keep your "strings"... We will let you see for yourself.
Wait a moment for the video to load and then pick the second picture which is Chapter 2.
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