ITEMS OF INTEREST
@the Mississauga Library
Have you tried our downloadable books, magazines, and music? And soon we will have comics and indieflix too.
Among the downloadable magazines we carry:
American Patchwork and Quilting
Quilting Arts
Quilts and More
At first glance browsing the magazines I couldn’t find “pull out” pattern sheets. Tthe pattern templates are available. Under the cutting instructions for the pattern, when it says the template is on Pattern Sheet x just click on this underlined phrase and link will go to the templates.
So far I have found one quilt book amongst the downloadable eBooks. Quilts with a Modern Slant. A search on the term “quilting” found a nice selection of quilt related novels.
Freegal supplies music as a background to your quilting. You can download 5 songs a week and stream 5 hours of music a day.
Coming in May will be downloadable Comics of all types and Indie films and documentaries.
Lynda.com from the Library eResources page has tutorials to help with your computer skills and business management.
It’s Spring and Port Credit branch has a Heritage Seed Library.
There are now 3D printers available.
Check it out at Mississauga Library.
Have you tried our downloadable books, magazines, and music? And soon we will have comics and indieflix too.
Among the downloadable magazines we carry:
American Patchwork and Quilting
Quilting Arts
Quilts and More
At first glance browsing the magazines I couldn’t find “pull out” pattern sheets. Tthe pattern templates are available. Under the cutting instructions for the pattern, when it says the template is on Pattern Sheet x just click on this underlined phrase and link will go to the templates.
So far I have found one quilt book amongst the downloadable eBooks. Quilts with a Modern Slant. A search on the term “quilting” found a nice selection of quilt related novels.
Freegal supplies music as a background to your quilting. You can download 5 songs a week and stream 5 hours of music a day.
Coming in May will be downloadable Comics of all types and Indie films and documentaries.
Lynda.com from the Library eResources page has tutorials to help with your computer skills and business management.
It’s Spring and Port Credit branch has a Heritage Seed Library.
There are now 3D printers available.
Check it out at Mississauga Library.
Article Regarding Copyright Posted February 2015
http://quiltville.blogspot.ca/2015/02/headed-home-and-some-challenges.html
Scroll down the page to read the relevant section.
http://quiltville.blogspot.ca/2015/02/headed-home-and-some-challenges.html
Scroll down the page to read the relevant section.
News from the Mississauga Library: Posted January 2015
Your Mississauga Library card now brings you many new services direct to your home! One of these would be of interest to our quilters.
The Library now has downloadable magazines through Zinio. 89 titles are available including “Quilting Arts.” These downloads do not expire. Contact your local library for help accessing this service. The website is: www.mississauga.ca/library.
Your Mississauga Library card now brings you many new services direct to your home! One of these would be of interest to our quilters.
The Library now has downloadable magazines through Zinio. 89 titles are available including “Quilting Arts.” These downloads do not expire. Contact your local library for help accessing this service. The website is: www.mississauga.ca/library.
Request from a designer regarding copyright Posted December 2014
Hunters design studio: Don't steal my pattern or any one elses click here
Hunters design studio: Don't steal my pattern or any one elses click here
Interesting Statistics about Qulters Posted November 2014
From the Quilting in America™ 2014 Survey presented by F+W, A Content + eCommerce Company
Click Here
From the Quilting in America™ 2014 Survey presented by F+W, A Content + eCommerce Company
Click Here
THE VALUE OF PROVENANCE Posted March 2014
Would you like to increase the monetary value of your quilts? This is a very easy thing to do – start a written provenance, defined as “the history of ownership of a valued object or work of art or literature” (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provenance )
This was made very clear to me while watching an episode of “Antiques Roadshow” on PBS. A young man had the world’s ugliest quilt (at least to me) that he had purchased at a flea market for $20 US. I say ugly because it was just a few rows of large orange / brown / orange / brown rectangles – very simple. It was valued, much to the shock of the young man and viewers at $40,000 US. Why? It had a written provenance, showing that it had been made by a “female slave” in 1842. It included the name of the plantation, the plantation owner, and to whom the quilt was bequeathed… down through time to before it was purchased at the flea market.
Think of the emotional value of the quilts we pass on to our children and their children. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have information for future recipients about who made the quilt, how and when it was made, for whom it was made, where did the design or idea come from (name the book, name the designer), how it was quilted (hand or machine)? If it was long-armed, the name of the quilter might also increase the value.
Wouldn’t this be a wonderful way to connect with the future? Imagine the delight of our descendants when reading the labels on the backs of our quilts. No unanswered questions or guessing – just lots of reliable information…because it comes from you, the quiltmaker.
submitted by VP MQG
Would you like to increase the monetary value of your quilts? This is a very easy thing to do – start a written provenance, defined as “the history of ownership of a valued object or work of art or literature” (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provenance )
This was made very clear to me while watching an episode of “Antiques Roadshow” on PBS. A young man had the world’s ugliest quilt (at least to me) that he had purchased at a flea market for $20 US. I say ugly because it was just a few rows of large orange / brown / orange / brown rectangles – very simple. It was valued, much to the shock of the young man and viewers at $40,000 US. Why? It had a written provenance, showing that it had been made by a “female slave” in 1842. It included the name of the plantation, the plantation owner, and to whom the quilt was bequeathed… down through time to before it was purchased at the flea market.
Think of the emotional value of the quilts we pass on to our children and their children. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have information for future recipients about who made the quilt, how and when it was made, for whom it was made, where did the design or idea come from (name the book, name the designer), how it was quilted (hand or machine)? If it was long-armed, the name of the quilter might also increase the value.
Wouldn’t this be a wonderful way to connect with the future? Imagine the delight of our descendants when reading the labels on the backs of our quilts. No unanswered questions or guessing – just lots of reliable information…because it comes from you, the quiltmaker.
submitted by VP MQG
