Thrilling Quilling!

The PUGDOG® Enterprises, Inc. Quillers.net: Thrilling Quilling Network!

We'll be offering supplies, ideas, patterns, and much, much more (like bad puns and Digital Postcards® Electronic Greetings with Quiller Attitude!

Currently, we offer quilling and origami supplies and papers and books in our shop, and the popularity has been steady, but seems to be on the rise. We've had a spike in paper sales, and an increase in requests for quilling classes in our retail Rock & Bead Shop -- "The Rock Shop" in Squirrel Hill.

Planned offerings for both on-line and in our shop are:
(as sites/offerings become active, the bold will become an active link)


Origami.net: This has been our main origami, quilling and paper crafts site. Please enter your quilling related sites there, and they will be moved here, when we open. Additional paper craft sites are on the way as well.

  • ThrillingQuilling.com - This entry site.
  • AboutQuilling.com - a bit of history, examples, and references.
  • CreativeQuilling.com - A gallery of advanced ideas for Creative Quillers
  • KidsQuilling.com - A place for kids (of all ages) to learn and experiment with quilling. We always try to do more than have them do a Martha Stewart type cookie cutter project. CREATIVITY and INDIVIDUALITY not doing a "project". Learning skills and techniques that can be used later on in OTHER projects (school, hobby, clubs) is our primary teaching bent. This site incorporates Quilling4Kids.com (and variations).
  • Quillers.net / Quillers.org -- Alternative entries to this site.
  • QuillingPatterns.com -- and indexed searchable list of quilling patterns, hopefully a large number *FREE*
  • QuillingTools.com -- a site with a list of specialized quillers tools, sources, and tips and hints for making your QuillingTime easier.
  • Fit2Quill.com -- as we said, puns. Probably will be part of the Digital Postcards® site, or it might be an idea site for QuillingPatterns.com. We are not sure about this one.
  • License2Quill -- Like Fit2Quill, it's a bad pun, and will be an idea site or a gallery.
  • QuillingTime.com -- Most likely this will be a quilling gallery. Another pun :)
  • QuillerAttitudes.com -- we are developing this one, as a punny/humor very pithy site for cute quilling, and sayings/slogans in Quilled format. A subsection of QuillingPatterns.com
  • QuillMe.com -- Definitely part of the Digital Postcards® site :)
  • RoadQuill.com -- LOL! Do you *need* to have a description for this one!
  • RoadQuillers.com -- This is where we'll offer quilling kits, suggestions for travel, and incorporating nature into your work. A mix of gallery and more.
  • Time2Quill.com -- Suggestions for quilling projects, and probably our FORUM area. Another pun, but more softly pointed. If it gets out of hand, it will become part of the Digital Postcards® site, but for now, we are looking at it as it's own entity.

Quilling is the perfect go-with for use with scrapbooking, foamies, woodsies, and other creative crafts that require very little additional materials. "scrap" bookin was originally a way to reuse scraps and odds and ends to create "collage" type pages of memories of trips or other special events. Rather than archival, acid free paper, the basic manilla or even newsprint type papers were used. The goal, was not to create miniature works of art, or to spend huge amounts of money on supplies and extras, but to use up what you had around, and to have fun doing it.

Scrap books were often bought after a trip, and while the memories were still fresh, postcards, shells, rocks, twigs, and souvieners were pasted or taped to the pages, with cute captions and dates.

Slowly, from the 70's onward, more and more supplies were being made for use with scrap books, from "balloons" with printed sayings and blank spaces. More and more materials became available, until today, when there are rows upon rows of materials at most craft stores, and whole stores and industries are built up around "scrapping".

Quilling is the original "scrapping." The gilded edges of prayer books were used to create imitation gold leaf decorations in churches during the hard times of the middle ages. From there, the quilling, or paper filligree as it eventually was called, became a popular form of art seen in every place from homes to castles.

You don't need much to create beautiful quilled designs. For inspiration on what to do, turn to children's coloring books often found 2 for $1 at the discount stores. They have images with large bold areas that can be filled in with the various quilled shapes, and can be the spring board of your imagination.

There most likely will be more! There always is. These sites will probably not be available for awhile, and developing them takes a lot of time. *BUT* if there is a site you'd like to work on, please contact us through the Bead Banter Forum (there is no spam there), and either post public, or private to me, "pugdog". We are always looking for help with sites, and we'll give credit where credit is due!