Creative Play Newsletter – One Week from Today
I am putting the final touches on the first edition of my Creative Play newsletter, which will land in email boxes one week from today. In this newsletter, I will explore the topic of creativity and will be writing about where creativity comes from (spoiler alert – I think we’re …
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What’s on my bed? A scrap quilt
I’m thinking about this today because one of my projects over the weekend was to dig into my big basket of scraps (in a lovely quatrefoil urn made by my neighbor Wendy Jensen) and to cut 2 1/2″ squares and 1 1/2″ strips. I find this to be a good …
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Photo Friday – Bristol
This photo wasn’t from the Photo Challenge this week. (That one was a Do Over and I sent the composite from Lake Winnepesauke that I already posted here.) Instead, I am posting my favorite photo from a trip I took last week to England. (That explains the lack of blogging …
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Photo Friday – Rainbow Cake
This is a strange picture for Photo Friday, I realize, but this week’s Ricky Tims’ Photo Challenge photo was of my daughter and I have a “no kid pics on the Internet” rule. Instead, I am sharing a picture of her birthday cake. She asked for a “rainbow cake with …
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#TBT – Launching My New Life
A year ago today I posted here about “Launching My New Life” and finally pursuing quilting as a profession. I thought I would use this Throwback Thursday post to give an update on that. I am happy to report that I am still on this path. I didn’t quit yet …
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Books Now Available – Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library
It’s finished! “Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library,” a children’s story written by my sister and illustrated by me with individual pictorial quilts for each two-page spread, is now available in hardcover on Lulu.com.
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Photo Friday – Stuck in Place
This week’s assignment: stand in one spot for an hour taking pictures. You can see my spot in the photo in the top left of this montage – the edge of my deck. The best of the photos I took are the remaining ones. Nothing worth framing, but not a …
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#TBT – Colnago, 2008
In honor of Father’s Day this week, I’m sharing a small art quilt I made for my husband in 2008, as a “Creative Play” project. It sat finished in my “UFO” drawer for years, but I am happy to say that it’s been hanging in his bike room now for …
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Design Wall (Definitely Not Monday) – Arabesque #4
I have been postponing this post, trying to get the top to “Arabesque #4” finished and now I finally have. From this photo, you can’t see all of the pleats that are on the inside corners of the green crosses; I finally got them right on the last set of …
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Photo Friday – Panning
I was not expecting to like my submission to this week’s photo challenge. The assignment was to either get a panning shot of something moving against a blurred background (I was tempted to try and capture my daughter whizzing by on her pink scooter.) or to move the camera to …
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