Hello everyone!Ever been to a seminar and when you come back to the office or home, you’re ready to change everything? Yep! That’s your brain tingling with inspiration. When you’re inspired from inside and actually do something with it, you’re experiencing intrinsic...
Dear Friends, Storytelling with textiles is a unique blend of art and culture. From technique-specific maker journeys such as the Milwaukee Art Quilters ‘Yo-Yo Challenge’ to broader cultural storytelling seen in The Migrant Quilt Project’s exhibit, Los...
Greetings everyone! I’m posting T. G. I. Fiber on Thursday instead of Friday so I can legitimately show you a gallery of red. It’s Valentine’s Day and while I think the day is overrated as a holiday, the color that represents it is tremendous. From...
Hello Friends,Before the New Year gets going (too quickly), here’s a colorful, vibrant look at 2018 out on the Trails! This gallery showcases members’ work from all five Midwest Fiber Arts Trails. It’s like the old Life magazine adage – a year...
The max distance is four hours from our house. Theoretically, that means eight hours in the car, but it’s more than that because our plans are loose. A while back my husband and I decided that we wanted to see more of Minnesota. Through family inheritance, he and his...
This story was written by Phyllis Calkins in 2017 for the Mazomanie Historical Society. Have you ever come across something that you had lost or forgotten?? …an old photograph, letter or maybe an old coin… and, did you wonder about the lives of the people...
By all accounts, Don Waalen-Radzevicius is having a great year. MinnesotaSticks, his knitting pattern and design business has really taken off giving him the opportunity for travel, teaching in shops across the United States and the opportunity to create pattern...
Thinking more about winter than fiber art today so while I was sifting through the photo archives, I came across these images of winter in northern Minnesota. I enjoy winter immensely. This image is of the Mississippi River winding its way through the Crow Wing State...