Photo Friday – Stuck in Place
This week’s assignment: stand in one spot for an hour taking pictures. You can see my spot in the photo in the top left of this montage – the edge of my deck. The best of the photos I took are the remaining ones. Nothing worth framing, but not a …
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#TBT – Colnago, 2008
In honor of Father’s Day this week, I’m sharing a small art quilt I made for my husband in 2008, as a “Creative Play” project. It sat finished in my “UFO” drawer for years, but I am happy to say that it’s been hanging in his bike room now for …
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Design Wall (Definitely Not Monday) – Arabesque #4
I have been postponing this post, trying to get the top to “Arabesque #4” finished and now I finally have. From this photo, you can’t see all of the pleats that are on the inside corners of the green crosses; I finally got them right on the last set of …
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Photo Friday – Panning
I was not expecting to like my submission to this week’s photo challenge. The assignment was to either get a panning shot of something moving against a blurred background (I was tempted to try and capture my daughter whizzing by on her pink scooter.) or to move the camera to …
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Announcing…
The first version of this blog when I started it in 2007, was named “Creative Play” because without really having a concrete strategy, I was using the blog as a way to explore my own creativity and to figure out how to keep my creativity well full. I have since …
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2016 Projects – #APQResolution – May
I finished another UFO for the American Patchwork and Quilting 2016 UFO Challenge. It really surprises me what projects I have in my drawer. Most of them are not quilts to finish. Those I seem to get done. This month’s project was to dye a white tee shirt that had …
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Photo Friday – Roads
Okay, I phoned this one in too (no pun intended). This week’s photo challenge was to take a photo in which a road was the primary or secondary subject. I was busy working and enjoying the holiday weekend so I didn’t give this challenge the time it deserved, which is …
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#TBT – Iris, 2010
Now that my journal quilt series of #TBT posts are complete, it’s time to dig back into the archives and share some other previous work. In the fall of 2009, I took a break from four months of staining woodwork in my new house. (Yes, FOUR months of 40 hour …
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2016 Projects – TQS BOM 2016
The May border for my 2016 Block of the Month for The Quilt Show is complete!
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Photo Friday – Mirror Montage
This has been one of my favorite challenges thus far in the class. We were to create a “Mirror Montage” with a mirror image of an original image sitting on top of it. Here’s mine of a tulip:
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