Welcome Mat, 2017
The Muse seems to be stuck on political work lately. This new piece is no different. This piece is entitled “Welcome Mat” and it is roughly the size of one at 20″ x 30.” I used fusible, raw edge applique to add the Arabic letters, which say “Ahlan wa Sahlan,” …
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Photo Friday – Leaves
Here’s my project from Week 2 of the sketching and watercolor class with Jane LaFazio. Happily, they do actually look like leaves, but my watercolor painting still needs a little work. Still, stretching myself a bit with a new medium is great fun even if these paintings will never see …
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Groundhog Day Do Over
Do you remember the movie “Groundhog Day”? Bill Murray had to keep doing his day over again and that inspired me to write this post today. If I had a quilting do over, what would I do? It was easy to pick a quilt because I am currently doing it …
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Photo Friday – Fruit
My photography class has ended, but now I am taking Sketching & Watercolor – Journal Style with Jane LaFazio so for the next few weeks, I’ll have some of that work to post here. This week’s lesson was in drawing and painting fruit. What I did does actually look like fruit …
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Two Rows of Names
I’ve been working steadily this week on my “Victims” quilt (which may explain why I am in such a mood of melancholy). I now have two rows completed to share. When it’s done, the quilt will be about as long as it is wide now.
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Off to a Good Start
January is not even close to over yet and I already have my UFO completed for the American Patchwork & Quilting UFO Challenge. #apqresolution I had one of these place mats made already so I only needed to finish three. And, it’s only January and I already have an item …
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Hello World!
Remember last week in my Creative Play Newsletter when I talked about how the Universe doesn’t always work from the same project plan? Boy, is the Universe having a good laugh at my expense this week! My husband is away this week for work so I had an ambitious To …
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New Year, New Project
Yeah, I do have enough to do but I felt like doing something new and taking a class so I signed up for one. It’s with Jane LaFazio (Jane is a watercolor, mixed media and quilt artist..) and it’s called Sketching and Watercolor: Journal Style. Neither sketching nor watercolor painting are things …
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Creative Play Newsletter (Vol. 1: Issue 7) – Know When to Walk Away
I am stubborn. (I can hear the people who know me well chuckling at that. “Yeah, a little!” they are thinking sarcastically.) In a lot of ways, that stubbornness has served me well in life, but it doesn’t always serve me well in the studio. I like to get things …
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Design Wall Tuesday in Provence
Here’s what’s on my design wall today: Is it a little busy? Yes. Do I care? No. Why not? It’s for a back. It’s for the back of a quilt that I am making for myself. It’s going to be the back of The Quilt Show 2016 BOM that I …
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