#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 49
This week in 2012, it was fiddle head fern season. It is now too, actually; I have some in my fridge right now, but I think that 2012 might have been the first time I encountered them. I immortalized both their shape and the recipe for cooking these strange vegetables …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 48
More baseball in Week 48 of my journal quilt project in 2012. This week in 2012, Boston celebrated the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park in a moving ceremony that included former players walking out from center field to the positions that they played during their time in a Sox uniform. …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 47
Well, this journal quilt from 2012 is appropriate this week. The quilt represents Opening Day 2012 and It was Opening Day at Fenway Park on Monday this week. As usual, my DH (Dear Husband, not Designated Hitter) and I were there. I don’t remember what the day in 2012 was …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 46
Easter fell a little later in the calendar in 2012 than it did this year. The basket was woven with strips of brown batik fabric; the grass is Superior Threads Glitter thread; and the eggs allowed me to pull out all of my variegated threads and give the fancy stitches on …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 45
The last week of March 2012 brought the second of our two baby showers. This one was held in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts for our friends and neighbors there. The party had a Red Sox theme, which drove the color choice for the umbrella.
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#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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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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#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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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 41
I know that I haven’t actually been creating any of these journal quilts, just reposting ones that I lost when my blog blew up, but it’s still hard to believe that I have already been at that for 41 weeks. In this quilt, I celebrated celebrating my husband’s grandmother’s 99th …
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