Tentmakers of Cairo
A few years ago, AQS had an exhibit of the work of tentmakers in Cairo and they offered some of the work for sale. I treated myself to one and have had it in my closet for years waiting for me to get my act together and hang it. Well, …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 23
Happy Halloween! Week 23 of my journal quilting project in 2011, fell over Halloween and a memorable one at that since it snowed over a foot. I did reverse applique for the jack o’lanterns face, which allowed me to create the glow behind it with some Shiva paint sticks.
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Trick or Treat!
There’s some amazing stuff in my stash – like Halloween fabric. I can’t explain why I have Halloween fabric in my stash, but this weekend it came in handy. I made a Trick or Treat bag for my daughter, completely from stash supplies. She picked the fabrics and I chose …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 22
Week 22 of my journal quilting project in 2011 was a fun one for me. I’d long had on my list to attend a Quilt Restoration Workshop with Nancy Kirk and I was finally on my way there. I flew to Omaha, Nebraska where the workshop was held and when …
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History of Quilting in America – The Colonial Period and the Early 1800s
From the special exhibit at the Rising Star Quilt Guild quilt show, October 2-3, 2015. The Colonial Period and the Early 1800’s As English settlers crossed the ocean to the American colonies, they brought their quilts and their quilting traditions with them. Whole cloth and mosaic-style paper pieced quilts were …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 21
You will have noticed that I skipped Throwback Thursday last week. I wanted to talk about the quilts that I had finished for the Rising Star Quilters Quilt Show instead. Of course, that makes this week’s throwback journal quilt even more timely. This week in 2011, as Asst. Treasurer for …
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Quilt Show
Quilters are such nice people. I can’t even tell you how many people stopped me at the show over the weekend and told me how much they liked my “Authentic Self” quilt. It was a quilt that I made just for myself with no thoughts about winning any ribbons and …
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My Authentic Self is Complete
Well, the quilt anyway. I expect that my authentic self is going to be a WIP for quite a long time. For the quilting on this quilt, I let each different fabric “speak” to me and chose a quilting design that reflected the fabric itself. Each quilting design is different, …
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Arabesque #2
I am putting the final touches on a few quilts this week, readying them for my guild show this weekend. (Come see it on Friday and Saturday at St. Brigid’s Church in Lexington, MA.) I’ll have two quilts in the show, in addition to the many samples that I pulled …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 20
At the same time that I was in my first trimester in the fall of 2011, I was working on a consulting project that had me in a terrible office building in Hartford, CT that was surrounded by locked gates and security guards. I drove down on Monday mornings, flashed …
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