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Free Taster Issue of Quiltwow
The internet magazine for quilters.


Carol Tulip

Quiltwow is Workshop on the Web for Quilters. It is a new quarterly publication and is only available on the internet. It features the very best tutors from all points of the compass, with step-by-step details of quilting and piecing methods, surface decoration, including dyeing, painting, printing, stencilling and more. Articles are planned which show how new technology is used within the quilt world.

We cover hand and machine quilting, machine embroidery, hand stitching, design and a variety of techniques, some new, some more traditional. New books and products are reviewed and we'll keep you in touch with all that's new with exhibitions and competitions. Some big stars are lined up for celebrity interviews.

Look at the free taster articles below and then click here to Subscribe. All for £15.00 British pounds (about $30 US) for a year's subscription (four issues).

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Articles

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Kate Dowty Kate Dowty Red Hot Chillies
Combine paint and stitch to create a textural wallhanging
Kate Dowty

Carol 1 Carol 1 Postcards from the Edge
Making a collage using computer prints
Carol Dowsett

Katharine Guerrier Katharine Guerrier Art Deco Style
Make a stylish wallhanging combining patterns and techniques
Katharine Guerrier

Nancy Goodman Nancy Goodman Small Beginnings
A year of journal quilts
Nancy Goodman

Carol 2 Carol 2 Celebrity Interview
Carol Dowsett

Books Books Top Quilters choose
their Favourite Books


We feel sure you will enjoy this Taster. Don't forget that the real thing is even bigger and better. Each issue has at least six workshops in addition to the interview, product and book reviews, and news of exhibitions and competitions. Add all this together and it's far more than a magazine - more like getting a new book every quarter. All for £15.00 British pounds (about $30 US) for a year's subscription (four issues).


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This issue
In this issue of Quiltwow
  • Naomi Renouf paints a fantastic wallhanging
  • Helen Deighan shows us how to make a coil bag
  • An Awaji cushion panel by Susan Briscoe
  • Pat Archibald uses foil in gilding leaves
  • The Celebrity Interview is with Dilys Fronks
  • Hilary Gooding uses crazy, log cabin and pineapple techniques to create perspective (see left)
  • Inkjet printing on fabric with Gloria Hansen
  • Carol Dowsett tells us about piecing inspirational daffodils
  • Plus more on journal quilts and all the regular features (see the buttons at the top).


If you've enjoyed this taster, have a look at the Free Taster for our embroidery-based internet magazine www.workshopontheweb.com, also published by Maggie Grey.



Printing the Workshops

Workshops can be printed using your browser (left-hand icon) or through Adobe Acrobat (printer friendly version). If you haven't got Adobe Acrobat reader, you can downloaded it free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html). The Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version takes longer to load so is only really suitable for those with a broadband (ADSL) connection. Anyone with dial-up may still prefer to download in web (html) format (right-hand icon).

There should be no problems of printing in PDF format. However, with web format, differences may be experienced due to the wide variety of screen resolutions and printers everyone has. What you see on your screen may be totally different from what someone else sees if they are using a different computer system with a different screen resolution. And that's without all the setups for all the different printers. So, without PDF, it's not possible to have a truly printer-friendly system other than one which prints text only - which wouldn't be any use for a site of this nature. Before publishing each issue, we test print on two different resolutions, two different printers and using two different browsers, so it should work for most people.

If you do have problems, one possibility would be to experiment with the page setup in your browser, especially making the left- and right-hand margins narrower in File menu, Page Setup. If this doesn't work, an emergency option is to change the page orientation to Landscape. If a pic gets split (which is rare with the latest browsers), you can copy it (with a right-click) and paste it into your paint program or word processor. Print from that and glue next to the split pic. Other options: Some printers can be set to print slightly smaller, at 90 or 80 percent - if the text is still readable - it might fit. And some printers display a 'shrink to fit' option when File menu, Print is selected in a browser.

Hope this helps. Remember that you don't need to be on line when printing. Once you have accessed a workshop and viewed all the pics, you can disconnect and print while off line. Subject to your browser settings, you can access that workshop as many times as you want without going back on line. Just make sure that your browser is set for working off line.