Photo Friday – Found Alphabet
This photo challenge was a fun one. The assignment was to shoot a “found alphabet,” to find our initials in things that weren’t actually letters. So, I took my phone out with me on a walk to specifically look for letters and found some that would work. Then the next …
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Design Wall – No More Names Quilt – Texas
Last week was a pretty productive one for my “No More Names” quilt. In addition to finishing the New York blocks, I also got the blocks made for the victims of the Fort Hood, TX shooting in 2009.
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Design Wall – No More Names Quilt – New York blocks
I have finished another group of blocks for my “No More Names” mass shooting quilt. These are the victims of a shooting in 2009, in Binghamton, New York. Working on these blocks saddened me because I realized that I had forgotten completely about this shooting, which is exactly the point …
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Photo Friday – Old Paint
Yes, “Old Paint” was the challenge this week. I’m happy to say that my house doesn’t have a lot of old paint on it, but I do have lots of cans of paint so I opened one up and shot this:
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#TBT – Fosterfields Log Cabin
I just posted a thumbnail version of this quilt on my new Lectures page to illustrate my “Quilts in U.S. History” lecture. It was based on on a quilt made in New Jersey in 1920, and I machine pieced and hand quilted it for Fosterfields Living Historical Farm in Morristown, …
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Design Wall Tuesday – No More Names Quilt: Virginia Tech
These blocks were so hard for me to work on. I’m a native Virginian and though I went to another of Virginia’s fine universities, two of my aunts, two of my uncles, my first cousin and my sister are all Hokies. This attack felt pretty close to home and even …
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Creative Play Newsletter Issue 2 – Learning to Play
Last month, I ended my newsletter article by saying, “Let the creative journey begin!” But in truth, I have been on my creative journey for a very long time and I suspect that you have too. In 2007, I started a blog that I called “Creative Play.” My idea was …
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Ravaging Rio – Now on Amazon!
I am so excited to announce that the children’s book I created with my sister, Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library, is now available in paperback from Amazon. I was really pleased with the quality of the paperback book and I hope you will be too. We’d love …
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Photo Friday – Sant’ Antioco
I didn’t get my photo challenge homework done this week either (silhouette). So instead, I am sharing a photo of some sun from the island of Sant’ Antioco off the coast of Sardinia. When I started planning my “Running with Scissors” quilt months ago, this image is what I had …
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Creative Play Newsletter Vol. 2 Coming Soon!
I’m drafting the second volume of my Creative Play Newsletter, which goes out to inboxes next Thursday, August 11th. If you would like to have the newsletter sent right to you, you can sign up here. You can also read the first newsletter if you’d like to see a sample …
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