Meena Schaldenbrand

This quilt was made for the Fast Friday Challenge group

The Adventurous Quilters enjoyed a weekend of sewing at the Columbiere retreat in Clarkston. I used the time to play with the Cricut and cut...

Enjoyed the Florida Sunshine, Orlando's Celebration Community and the Maitland Art Center and surrounding lakes. We also got see Luz, a ...

Cybersewing hints Fixing pastels artquilts: Golden acrylic medium (gloss) diluted with a lot of water, so it is very thin: brush it gently o...

This is a quilt I made for the Fast Friday Challenge where we had to take an ad and use those colors in a quilt. I gave it to Mary who is a ...

Waterproof fabric or paper with Medium-Golden matt or shiny medium instead of using vinyl.Apply with a paint brush. Simulate a single hole ...

Loved the colorful quilt exhibit, Rooted in Tradition, Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum at the Florida International Museum...

When we did our annual gift exchange at the American Sewing Guild, Marge So created a fantastic holiday decoration. She drilled a hole in a ...

Focus! Tore out text and pictures from a medical journal and glued them onto a canvas base with diluted gloss gel medium. Also glued on whit...

Liquid Thread can be purchased on-line. Put the Liquid Thread in the Gutta Applicator bottles with metal tips from the Dharma Trading Compan...

http://www.quiltart.com/triple_play/works_tn.html Journal quilts including mine... Recession's Depression, Jai Ho and Jubilation, and Ra...

We experienced the Space shuttle launch earlier this week. The sound and vibrations were just incredible!

This is a Thank You Quilt for my Mom's Orthopedic Surgeon. I gave it to him today in great appreciation for all he's done. I embroid...

This is another one of 2 mosaic tables that I created that will be in MOSAIC ART 5 that includes 1357photos of mosaics by 771 artists from ...

Cyber Hints Printing on fabric : tape fabric (using double stick tape in certain places) onto heavyweight matte printer photo paper. It is s...

The quilt which honors my father, Great Visions, Great Life , is part of an exhibit, DAY OF THE DEAD: Art & Culture in the Americas at t...

http://www.pearlfryar.com/subtemp.asp?cat=2&id=5 This was an unexpected treasure we saw in Bishopville on our recent trip to SC. Pearl F...

Operation Quiet Comfort Greeting Card Project questions regarding cards. ( diane52381@nc.rr.com ) All cards are mailed to: D Schneider 630...

I am so impressed with Nancy Butler's quilt , one of my student's from a class at QU this summer. I love her interpretration of text...

white elephant swap: flat rate box filled with magazines, notions and fabric that was still good, and usable but not something they wanted ...

Finished grouting my circular table with circles :)

Raising Kids and Letting Go ....Expectations, Emotions and High Hopes . We have high expectations from our kids and hope for the very best f...

Paint Lutradur The 100 wt doesn't bleed through quite as much and the 70 wt. Place a large coffee filter under my work or anther piece ...

Here are more views of my mosaic mailbox . I still have to grout and seal it but do like the way it is turning out

This is one side of a mailbox I am working on. I have been glueing glass and tiles and am adding embellishments as well. This will be a 3 se...

CCC went on another fun trip .. this one to Quilt National in Athens, Ohio to admire some very contemporary quilts. We also saw the wonderfu...

Make your own jelly roll form your stash 2.5 inchs x width, about 40 strips 1 lb of quilting fabric is equal to 4 yards .. 1 yard is approx...

Am teaching a class on textures at Quilting Unlimited, a retreat for the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild. I chose this quilt for the teacher...

Turned many of my nephew, John's clothes including overalls, Tshirts, and some photos into a memory quilt for his high school graduation...

We created the main peacock in one weekend. Sucheta and I made duplicates of the same peacock in one weekend with Aai's help. I added m...

These are my popcan postcards for a Fiberart Traders swap. Some of them were crimped and beads , doilies and charms were added for embellish...

Cyberquilting hints : Blue gel glue as resist just soak the piece in room temp water for about 10 - 15 minutes & the glue melts out. Sol...

Worked with 11 year old Caitlin on a quilt, Diya. She did used beads, sequins , shisha mirrors, trims and did such a great job!

The challenge for this year is The Art of Nature. My quilt is called Earth's Dynamic Organic Art and is 20x24".

These are my magnets for the Moo Moo magnet swap with Fiber art traders . I can't wait to see what I will get back.

Interesting tidbits I learnt from the internet ... Foiling: with Misty Fuse .. so fine , and you can paint or otherwise color it before foil...

This is the picture of the fire that was right next to the place my daughter rents. She heard an explosion next door, saw the flames and rus...

Made 11 fabric microscope covers for the Cytologists at St Joe's Hospital, Ann Arbor. The occasion is National Cytotech Day on Wednesday...

Check out this article about my friend, Cyn Geist in the Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20090508/METRO04/905080376/1409/METRO/...

Saw a great exhibit of Recycled Art by Jean Shin at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC at 8th and G St NW. She used many i...

A new home for my bottle collection. Love those colors and shapes.

Originally, this purchased top had too many beads and stones. Removed about half of them, and added them to my embellishment stash for futur...

Zigzagged two striped placemats along the long edges while butting them side by side.Then zigzagged the floral placemat in the center for a ...

Detail, A gift for my music loving daughter