2016 Projects – #APQResolution February
I have a flurry of new projects this year, including American Patchwork & Quilting’s UFO Challenge. March’s project is already done, but I am stuck on February. My UFO is a practice piece I did years ago to try corded white work. I was reading Kathryn Berenson’s book “Quilts of …
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Photo Friday – Board Game
This week’s challenge was to shoot a picture of a board game. Amazingly, it was also the week my DH decided to teach our 3 year old how to play checkers. I have some cute pictures of the two of them over a game board, but my DH and I …
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Design Wall Tuesday – Ravaging Rio’s final pages
All of the quilted pages for “Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library” are now complete.
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Design Wall Monday – Literally!
Today’s project: install a design wall. Check! That’s 3.75 sheets of 1″ x 24″ X 96″ rigid foam insulation, screwed to the wall with drywall screws, anchored with large washers. I removed 8 inches from each board to get the right height, which was remarkably easy to do for a …
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Photo Friday – Mirror Image
The challenge this week was to create a mirror image in Photoshop. It took me several tries to get the initial image right so I got a lot of practice mirroring! Credit here is also due to the Sedona Sun Day Spa for the lovely manicure. I thought about doing …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 42
I am sitting in front of an open window as I write this, enjoying spring-like weather in early March. The same seems to have been true of the week of March 8th in 2012 because spring was the theme: These little snow drops are fused and stitched using batiks.
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Design Wall Tuesday – Rio’s Title Page
“Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library” now has a title page. All that remains now is the penultimate page.
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New Projects – #APQResolution
I mentioned that I had started the American Patchwork & Quilting 2016 UFO Challenge. To do the challenge, you catalog your UFO projects, assign numbers 1 – 12 to each one, and when APQ draws the number each month, you complete the UFO. I’m behind already on February’s project, but …
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Photo Friday – Abandoned
This week’s challenge was “Abandoned.” We had a great old car parked out in one of the back fields of the farm where I grew up that would have been wonderful for this, but that car’s probably long gone and that field is someone’s yard now. Instead, I took a …
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