Design Wall – Elemental Symbols
I mentioned last month that a friend of mine has started a creative community called BirdZeed. Each month she sends out a word to use as inspiration for a piece of art work. This month’s word was “Symbol.” I chose to focus on the symbols for the 4 Elements (Fire, …
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Photo Friday – Silhouette
I am having a bad string of not getting my homework done for the Photo Challenge class so again, I am heading back into the archives to find something to share this week. (And, many thanks to Shutterfly for organizing my photos so nicely to make this task easier.) The …
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#TBT – Maple Leaf
We’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time this summer out in the Berkshires near Lake Garfield, which reminded me this morning of my 11th quilt. I made these maple leaves in 2005, (well, it’s hand quilted so 2003 – 2005) for my husband’s aunt and uncle.
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Design Wall – No More Names Quilt – Aurora
One of the interesting things to me as I took on this project was to realize that only one state has had more than one mass shooting (with more than 10 victims) during the last 20 years. Colorado saw the first mass shooting of the recent string in Littleton and …
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Photo Friday – Found Alphabet
This photo challenge was a fun one. The assignment was to shoot a “found alphabet,” to find our initials in things that weren’t actually letters. So, I took my phone out with me on a walk to specifically look for letters and found some that would work. Then the next …
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Design Wall – No More Names Quilt – Texas
Last week was a pretty productive one for my “No More Names” quilt. In addition to finishing the New York blocks, I also got the blocks made for the victims of the Fort Hood, TX shooting in 2009.
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Design Wall – No More Names Quilt – New York blocks
I have finished another group of blocks for my “No More Names” mass shooting quilt. These are the victims of a shooting in 2009, in Binghamton, New York. Working on these blocks saddened me because I realized that I had forgotten completely about this shooting, which is exactly the point …
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Photo Friday – Old Paint
Yes, “Old Paint” was the challenge this week. I’m happy to say that my house doesn’t have a lot of old paint on it, but I do have lots of cans of paint so I opened one up and shot this:
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#TBT – Fosterfields Log Cabin
I just posted a thumbnail version of this quilt on my new Lectures page to illustrate my “Quilts in U.S. History” lecture. It was based on on a quilt made in New Jersey in 1920, and I machine pieced and hand quilted it for Fosterfields Living Historical Farm in Morristown, …
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Design Wall Tuesday – No More Names Quilt: Virginia Tech
These blocks were so hard for me to work on. I’m a native Virginian and though I went to another of Virginia’s fine universities, two of my aunts, two of my uncles, my first cousin and my sister are all Hokies. This attack felt pretty close to home and even …
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