Design Wall Tuesday – Arabesque #4 is underway!
I finished drafting Arabesque #4, picked out fabrics (from my stash, no less!) and have started cutting out the pieces. It’s far less complicated and a welcome change from Arabesque #3.
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Photo Friday – Composite Montage
My photo for this week’s challenge didn’t get done in time. I took my photos while on the retreat at Lake Winnipesaukee and even had several hours to myself once I got home before my DH and daughter came home. But, I was so exhausted from the weekend and the …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 46
Easter fell a little later in the calendar in 2012 than it did this year. The basket was woven with strips of brown batik fabric; the grass is Superior Threads Glitter thread; and the eggs allowed me to pull out all of my variegated threads and give the fancy stitches on …
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Design Wall Tuesday – #TQSBOM2016
I had an extremely productive weekend. I went to the Geneva Point Center on Lake Winnipesaukee for the Rising Star Quilters annual Spring Fling and three solid days of sewing. My first project of the weekend was to get caught up with The Quilt Show’s 2016 Block of the Month, …
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Photo Friday – Do Over
This week’s Photo Challenge was to do over a previous challenge. The hardest part was deciding which one to redo; there were so many that I wanted to fix! But, as I was making a cup of tea and thinking about the photo that I wanted to do, I looked …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 45
The last week of March 2012 brought the second of our two baby showers. This one was held in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts for our friends and neighbors there. The party had a Red Sox theme, which drove the color choice for the umbrella.
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Arabesque #3 is complete!
As I quilted Arabesque #3, I found myself thinking that I should call it “Divine Intervention” instead. The piecing certainly required a few prayers, but I have to admit that I had no faith at all when it came time to quilt. This one hung on my design wall for …
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Design Wall Tuesday – 2016 TQS BOM_v2
I have a number of projects going on for 2016, one of which is the Block of the Month from The Quilt Show. The quilt for 2016, is a smaller replica version of the Rajah Quilt, a quilt made by female convicts on the prison ship the Rajah during the …
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2016 Projects – #APQResolution March
This UFO really embarrasses me. It was inspired by the view of a neighbor’s tree from my third floor quilt studio window in a house we sold in 2009. I made the quilt in 2008. (Yes, that’s eight years ago. Or at least 7, because I might have made the …
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Photo Friday – Shutter Zoom
This week’s Photo Challenge was the use of a technique to purposely make a photo blurry. I started out my amateur photo career in what was essentially photo journalism as staff photographer and then photo editor for my high school yearbook so my reaction to this challenge was “Why the heck …
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