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Kimberly Wulfert - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Kimberly Wulfert, PhD is a psychologist, spiritual student and seeker of higher truth. June 2009 she started her new website/blog LivingToMakeSenseOfItAll.com.
Since 1998, she also used her detective skills to research antique quilts and textiles, their dyes and printing techniques in the historical timeline of the people and events.
Kim has lectured and taught nationally, and published historical articles in The Magazine Antiques (August 2008), PieceWork magazine(May 2006), Folk Art Magazine (Fall 2007) from the American ... [More]
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- Living Consciously is More Than What Happens in Meditation
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] When you read or hear people talk about conscious living it's most often in the context of meditation, spirituality, yoga, eating vegan and other green healthy ways of living, but when you are awake you also become conscious of your dirty refrigerator shelves, the dust layered under armoires. Consciously living every opportunity in your daily activities, offers you the discovery of a deeper meaning, perhaps a deeper understanding of your spiritual path.
- Meditation Simplified - What is it and Why Do It?
[Health-and-Fitness:Meditation] Meditation is simply a state of consciousness. Meditation does not have to be connected to a spiritual belief. It can be practiced for the sole purpose of healing and de-stressing your body through the relaxation response the body enters when you are in meditation. It also provides a clearing of your mind, referred to a "stilling" the mind.
- Quilters and the Friendship Effect - 7 Ways to Creatively Cope During Stressful Times
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] When you are feeling stressed-out, quilting can lift you up again for reasons you might not expect. The effect of bonding through friendship on a female's natural response to stress was recently studied in a prestigious university's landmark study. They found that in the female brain different chemicals are released during stress than in male brains. Females release oxytocin.
- String Quilts Match the Economic Times - Past and Present
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] The common thread in string, selvedge edge, and cigar ribbon tops, is that their popularity came about at the time of an economic downturn or a War, or both. The materials used in each were throw-aways being put to use, as a quilt or decoration for women's homes, and they were there for the taking.
- Crazy Quilts, Redwork Quilts and the Centennial Fair
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] Studying the reasons why Crazy and Redwork quilts began opens our eyes to the lives and attitudes of those who created fabric art before us. Both quilt styles began in the nineteenth century and they are unique to America's needlework history.
- Easy to Make Star of Bethlehem Quilts For Christmas Gifts
[Book-Reviews] Make Star of Bethlehem or Lone Star quilts without using any diamond shapes or Y-seams, only rectangles and squares, but they don't look like it. Fast and easy enough for beginners.
- Early Indigo Dyeing & Printing Methods
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] Both indigo plants and cotton plants grew abundantly in the warm humid climate of India, as did the best plant for red dye obtained from the root of the madder plant. Indigo was fast, madder red was not. But getting the blue dye from the indigo plant was not easy or quick. It was labor intensive and produced an expensive dye that was valued across the world.
- Passing on the Comfort - The War, the Quilts, and the Women Who Made a Difference
[Book-Reviews:History] An Keuning-Tichelaar, now 82, was a devoted anti-war protestor in today's terms. She lived in the Netherlands during WWII. Her compelling story is about the resistance movement she was involved in which helped refugees and the Jewish people during the terrible years of World War II. Lynn Kaplanian-Buller is the co-author and younger of the two women. Lynn came to Holland from Minnesota during the Vietnam War with a similar desire to An, to help the peace cause. She married an Israeli man she met in Holland, and together they worked for peace between the Palestinian's and the Israelis.
- Hand Quilting Patterns on Antique Quilts
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] Which hand quilted patterns were stitched into American quilts made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Nine common patterns seen by this quilt historian are described here.
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