Design Wall Monday – Arabesque #3
Here’s what the design wall looks like today: Unfortunately, I haven’t made a lot of progress since this morning because it’s one of those days when I am taking out more seams that I put in, but c’est la vie. I did make one big change over the weekend …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 26
I was halfway into my journal quilting project year at this point in 2011. To mark the occasion, I sewed thumbnail pictures of some of my favorite quilts onto a timeline and left a few blank spots for the quilts to come.
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Arabesque #3 In Process
After some great help from Arlington Swifty Printing on Friday to enlarge the design for Arabesque #3, work is now underway. So far, so good!
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History of Quilting in America – Westward Expansion, 1840s – 1860s
Westward Expansion, 1840s – 1860s In the mid-1800s, Americans turned their eyes west. The first wagon trains left Missouri for the territories in 1843, and hundreds of thousands of settlers followed over the next few decades, bringing their quilts with them. Family and friends of settlers sent their loved ones …
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Arabesque #3 Design
I have been wrestling with the design for Arabesque #3 for weeks now. I kept trying to talk myself out of doing it. The inspiration for the design is from the Alcazar Palace in Seville, Spain (Broug, Eric. Islamic Geometric Design, pg. 27) and it is complicated. It’s a 12-point …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 25
This week in 2011, we spent a weekend in NYC with dear friends. The purpose for the trip was to see the Spiderman show on Broadway. My DH is a great U2 fan and was interested in seeing the show since they had done the music. Unfortunately, even U2 couldn’t …
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Grandpa’s Waves
This is the top that I finished yesterday. A little over a week ago, on the day that would have been my grandparents 70th wedding anniversary (though I didn’t realize it at the time because I rarely know what day it is), I started thinking about my grandfather and was …
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History of Quilting in America – Rise of American Patchwork, 1825 – 1860
This is the second installment from the History of American Quilting special exhibit at the Rising Star Quilters 2015 show. The sample quilts included here were not in the exhibit, but are quilts that I have made in recent years. Rise of American Patchwork, 1825 – 1860 By 1825, conditions …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 24
This week in 2011 gave us our first glimpse at our daughter, though we didn’t know at the time that she would be a daughter. I used a black organza overlay to create that filmy ultrasound look.
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Design Wall Monday – Waves
I’ve been struggling with the design for Arabesque #3. I just had to be inspired by some tile work that’s a 12 pointed star inside a hexagon! Getting it drawn is proving to be quite a challenge. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I was inspired to work …
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