#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 44
At this time in 2012, baby preparations were in full swing. We had the first of two baby showers, this one at our apartment in the Boston area.
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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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