Follow Your Leadings
This week, I felt very strongly the need to finish the blocks I have been making to remember the victims of the shooting in Las Vegas. It wasn’t on my To Do List this week and I’ve let the blocks sit for weeks on end without picking them up so …
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Women’s Words Fabric Added to Spoonflower
https://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/7518924-women-s-words-portrait-by-julieneu I created this fabric to be the background of an upcoming project and have made it available on Spoonflower if anyone else would like some. It’s in 50 pt gray Sans Serif font on a white background. This one prints Portrait style, which means that the words will be …
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Creative Play Newsletter Vol. 2: Issue 10 – Time of One’s Own
Time of One’s Own In 1929, Virginia Woolf published her essay A Room of One’s Own, in which she argues that for women to write, to exercise their creativity, they need a room of their own and financial support. For today’s women, a room of one’s own may seem like …
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#The100DayProject
I’m a few days late for the official start, but I have joined into #The100DayProject and will be posting photos of my projects each day to Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliebneu/ The idea behind the project, which fits so perfectly with Creative Play, is to do a creative project every day for 100 days. …
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Creative Play Newsletter Vol 2: Issue 9 – Why Find Your Voice?
Last month, I wrote about how Creative Play™ can be helpful in finding your voice as an artist. What I didn’t discuss was why you would want to do that. I always hear so much talk about “finding your voice” and it used to really confuse me. I mean, if …
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Alternative Facts, 2017
Work on my unexpected protest series continued this week with a new piece called “Alternative Facts.” I first created the letter blocks, sewed them together, and then slashed the top and resewed it over and over again. I captured the in-process pictures and created a 33 second video of them; …
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Thanks to the Cornerstone Quilt Guild
Yesterday, I had the wonderful opportunity to present my “Quilts in U.S. History” lecture to the Cornerstone Quilt Guild in Charlton, Mass. Not only did I see some stunning quilts during Show and Tell but one guild member also brought a top from 1876 from her collection to share. I …
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Thanks to the Quinobequin Quilters
Last night, I had the wonderful opportunity to deliver my “Quilts in U.S. History” lecture to the Quinobequin Quilters in Needham, MA. The guild members asked some great questions and there were a few that I wasn’t able to fully answer in the moment that I wanted to follow up …
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2018 Goals
2018 is here and that means it is time to think about goals for the year. I have a list of quilts that I want to get done, and of course, there’s the American Patchwork & Quilting UFO Challenge, but I received a gift from dear friends that perfectly sums …
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2017 Year in Review
I started a new tradition last year of writing a year-in-review blog post after I ran across some others doing it. I find the process of taking stock of the entire year to be a good reminder of just how much I actually did accomplish. American Patchwork & Quilting UFO …
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