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Quilling, not quilting at South Porcupine library

Not to be confused with quilting, branch head Louise Gaudette of the C.M. Shields Library in South Porcupine says its maker space is featuring quilling all this month.

 “Quilling is the art of rolling and shaping strips of paper with special tools and gluing them to create different designs.”

 “Quilling is the art of rolling and shaping strips of paper with special tools and gluing them to create different designs.”

The result is 3-D art, Gaudette adds..

“I especially like it in my scrapbooking.  I also like to make cards with them, they’re very pretty.  You can also take your artwork and you can frame it and put it on the wall.  It can be that ornate or as simple as a card.

“It’s a little bit more of a complicated craft. It’s not something a two-year-old will do.  Your hand-eye coordination is much more fine-tuned when you’re doing this.  But 12 and up shouldn’t be an issue.”

Quilling is available during library hours. The material and instructions are in the maker space.  If staff members have time, they can help you with it.

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