Creative Play Newsletter, Vol. 1, Issue 5
Peace and Quiet Last month, I wrote about Morning Pages from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and their goal of getting the crap out of your head so that your mind is clear for creative work. One of the other goals of Morning Pages is to slow you down …
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Monkeys in the Mail
A cousin of mine is a new dad. When I went into my stash looking for inspiration for the baby quilt, I found this sock monkey fabric and knew immediately that it was perfect. As a kid, my cousin had a beloved sock monkey that was never very far away. …
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Orlando Victims
After a little hiatus from my project, I am back to work on my Victims Quilt, making what I hope will be the last blocks. These blocks are the first four of the 49 I will make for the victims of the shooting at the nightclub in Orlando just a few …
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Completed Cancer Moon Shot Block
I’ve finished all of my thread painting and have my completed Cancer Moon Shot Ribbon Quilt block. It didn’t completely flatten out so there’s some batting on the back of the moon for a little trapunto. (I planned that all along, really I did. 🙂 )
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“Photo” Friday – Moon Shot
The same friend of mine who is running the BirdZeed creative community has started a community art project called the Cancer Moonshot Ribbon Quilt. She’s collecting blocks with circles that represent the moon that she’s constructing into a cancer ribbon like quilt as long as a Saturn 5 rocket. (So she …
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New Name for “No More Names”
I have come up with a good alternative name for my previously-named “No More Names” quilt. I am thinking of calling it simply “Victims.” I decided that I don’t need to make the overt statement about the purpose of the quilt by calling it “No More Names.” Instead, I can …
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This time next week…
This time next week, I’ll be on my way to the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA for their annual Meet the Teachers day. It’s a day for local quilt teachers to promote their lectures and workshops and for guild programming chairs to learn about the teachers located nearby. …
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Creative Play Newsletter, Issue 4 – Write it Out
There is a thread that runs through the book I mentioned last month (Jane Dunnewold’s Creative Strength Training) and another book that was a lifeline to me as I climbed out of my pit of creative despair. That book was The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and the thread was …
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Rising Star Quilters Guild Quilt Show – Next Weekend!
My guild’s quilt show is coming up! It’s that time of year again…Rising Star Quilters Guild will deck St. Brigid’s Church in Lexington, MA with more than 130 quilts and quilted items on Friday, October 14 from 10 am to 7 pm and Saturday October 15 from 10 am to 5 …
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Design Wall – Extreme Piecing
This week I am working on a table runner that will be a sample for a class that I am developing called “Extreme Piecing.” The class will cover creating templates that allow you to then piece anything you can draw, even if it’s complicated. (I almost said, “no matter how …
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