Photo Friday – Street Photography
This week’s photo challenge assignment was “Street Photography.” The shot I submitted was one that I took of two quilters having an engaging chat in front of the Superior Threads booth at MQX East in Manchester, NH. However, though I may be the only person on the planet who concerns …
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Photo Friday – Composite Montage
My photo for this week’s challenge didn’t get done in time. I took my photos while on the retreat at Lake Winnipesaukee and even had several hours to myself once I got home before my DH and daughter came home. But, I was so exhausted from the weekend and the …
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Design Wall Tuesday – #TQSBOM2016
I had an extremely productive weekend. I went to the Geneva Point Center on Lake Winnipesaukee for the Rising Star Quilters annual Spring Fling and three solid days of sewing. My first project of the weekend was to get caught up with The Quilt Show’s 2016 Block of the Month, …
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Photo Friday – Do Over
This week’s Photo Challenge was to do over a previous challenge. The hardest part was deciding which one to redo; there were so many that I wanted to fix! But, as I was making a cup of tea and thinking about the photo that I wanted to do, I looked …
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Design Wall Tuesday – 2016 TQS BOM_v2
I have a number of projects going on for 2016, one of which is the Block of the Month from The Quilt Show. The quilt for 2016, is a smaller replica version of the Rajah Quilt, a quilt made by female convicts on the prison ship the Rajah during the …
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2016 Projects – #APQResolution March
This UFO really embarrasses me. It was inspired by the view of a neighbor’s tree from my third floor quilt studio window in a house we sold in 2009. I made the quilt in 2008. (Yes, that’s eight years ago. Or at least 7, because I might have made the …
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Photo Friday – Shutter Zoom
This week’s Photo Challenge was the use of a technique to purposely make a photo blurry. I started out my amateur photo career in what was essentially photo journalism as staff photographer and then photo editor for my high school yearbook so my reaction to this challenge was “Why the heck …
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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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