#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 40
Mmmm. In Week 40 of my journal quilt project in 2012, we toured the Taza Chocolate Factory in Somerville, MA. This quilt represents the different flavors of their chocolate wedges: chipotle, cinnamon, coffee, ginger, orange, vanilla, etc.
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 38
Happy Valentine’s Day 2012! I got to try out some of the fancy stitches on the sewing machine. I also used Heat ‘N’ Bond to fuse fabric onto the backs of the hearts to make them more 3D. They are only sewn down the center so the sides are free …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 37
The Super Bowl occurred during Week 37 of my journal quilt project in 2012. I don’t follow football at all so I can’t even tell you who was playing in 2012. (It was probably the Patriots so I am proving what a horrible New Englander I am by not knowing …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 36
The week of January 26, 2012, brought a bit of Spring-like weather so I revisited the wintry journal quilt from a few weeks earlier and created this quilt using the same techniques:
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 35
By Week 35 of my journal quilting project, my pregnancy was in full swing, so to speak. Inspired by the Batman television series, I created this journal quilt to record those first kicks. I put scrapbooking stickers on fabric, painted over them with fabric paints and then removed the stickers …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 34
This week in 2012, I was inspired by the mundane. It was Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and we had dinner with good friends at our house, but the most interesting thing that happened during the weekend seems to have been that our generator came on. The power wasn’t out …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 33
This week’s journal quilt was one of my favorites because of the cool batiks and the silver threads used to create bare winter trees. I made it the week of January 5th, 2012, and it just makes me think of the hush of a winter blanket of snow.
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 32
Week 32 of my journal quilting project fell over New Year’s 2012. We had a typical New Year’s celebration of dinner, a movie, and a Harney & Sons visit with our dear friends. But, it was also the Iowa caucus and my DH suggested that I use that and the …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 31
We had a scare just before Christmas in 2011. I was pregnant with our daughter and we went in for the second ultrasound a few days before Christmas. The doctor reading the ultrasound couldn’t get a good view of her heart and he asked us to come back the next …
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