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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UFOs: Great Creativity Challenges
Many years ago, I was the charity quilt coordinator for my guild. In that role, I was the recipient of many, many donated UFOs. What absolutely surprised me was how much I loved dealing with other people’s UFOs. I have rarely felt as creative as I did when staring at …
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Creative Play Date
Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s also Creative Play Date Day. I’m not feeling very creative today because I am still getting over the plague that my daughter brought home from school so I decided I would just play today. For me that means working on personal quilts rather than professional ones, …
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Photo Friday – Continuous Line Drawing
Continuing this week with my Sketching and Watercolor class with Jane LaFazio. This week – continuous line drawing. I’m getting a little better. 🙂
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Creative Play Newsletter (Vol. 1: Issue 8) – Creativity is Innate
I have been thinking about the nature of creativity for years, but nothing has helped me understand the topic more than having a child. My daughter created fearlessly from the moment she could first hold a crayon. But, judging from the stacks of papers other parents took home with them …
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