Creative Play Date Day!
It’s Creative Play Date Day! How will you spend your play time? We’re expecting snow so I think there’s a good chance I’ll be playing with Popsicle sticks with my kiddo on a snow day, but I’ll keep you posted. Enjoy!
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Looking for Pattern Reviewers
Hi All! I’m in the process of posting some patterns to Craftsy and they could really use a few more sets of eyes to review them. If you’d be interested in reviewing one of the patterns below, please contact me with your email address and I’ll send you a copy …
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Photo Friday – Flowers
Here’s the last of my homework from the sketching and watercolor class with Jane LaFazio. This was due weeks ago, but I hadn’t gotten to it. But, my tardiness gave me the great opportunity to paint some flowers for a dear friend’s birthday card and then have it do double …
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Creative Play Newsletter (Vol.1: Issue 9) – Play Time
What is Creative Play and why do I keep talking about it? Well, I keep talking about it because after many, many years of fighting it, I have finally realized how very important it is. I stopped playing at about oh, two years of age. That’s probably a bit of …
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American Patchwork & Quilting Podcast
Did you miss me yesterday on the live radio show? No worries! Click here to find out how to listen to the American Patchwork & Quilting Podcast.
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Talking with Pat Sloan Today!
Remember last week when I told you that Pat Sloan would have a special guest on her American Patchwork & Quilting podcast? Well, it’s me! I’ll be on live at 4PM ET today talking about “Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library.” If you can’t listen today, the show …
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Photo Friday – Woman Made
This week’s assignment in my sketching and watercolor class was to draw a machine-made object. I spent some time noodling over what object had meaning to me that I wanted to draw when I looked down on my work table and the answer became obvious: Because this month’s BirdZeed challenge …
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What I’m Listening To
I’ve been doing a lot of hand sewing lately. I decided to do a quilt-as-you-go technique on the Victims Quilt so that I didn’t have to put a king-size quilt under the machine and I’ve been hand sewing the seams closed on the back. It’s time-consuming work (each of the …
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#APQResolution Project for February
I’m happy to say that this month’s UFO for the American Patchwork & Quilting UFO Challenge has only been a UFO for a year (or maybe two?) and even better yet, it’s something that I made for myself. It’s a travel sewing kit from the tutorial on the “lots of …
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Photo Friday: Shoes
I was really looking forward to this week’s lesson for the Jane LaFazio sketching class. This week: shoes! I chose to sketch the Electric Purple Chucks that I bought myself as part of my 40th birthday presents. They’ve become my favorites. But, they are not as dirty as they look …
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