Announcing…
The first version of this blog when I started it in 2007, was named “Creative Play” because without really having a concrete strategy, I was using the blog as a way to explore my own creativity and to figure out how to keep my creativity well full. I have since …
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2016 Projects – #APQResolution – May
I finished another UFO for the American Patchwork and Quilting 2016 UFO Challenge. It really surprises me what projects I have in my drawer. Most of them are not quilts to finish. Those I seem to get done. This month’s project was to dye a white tee shirt that had …
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Photo Friday – Roads
Okay, I phoned this one in too (no pun intended). This week’s photo challenge was to take a photo in which a road was the primary or secondary subject. I was busy working and enjoying the holiday weekend so I didn’t give this challenge the time it deserved, which is …
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#TBT – Iris, 2010
Now that my journal quilt series of #TBT posts are complete, it’s time to dig back into the archives and share some other previous work. In the fall of 2009, I took a break from four months of staining woodwork in my new house. (Yes, FOUR months of 40 hour …
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2016 Projects – TQS BOM 2016
The May border for my 2016 Block of the Month for The Quilt Show is complete!
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Photo Friday – Mirror Montage
This has been one of my favorite challenges thus far in the class. We were to create a “Mirror Montage” with a mirror image of an original image sitting on top of it. Here’s mine of a tulip:
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Project Lessons Learned
I wrapped up my year-long journal quilting project in 2012, two weeks after my daughter was born. It was a terrific project for me and one that I am tempted to repeat. If nothing else, I had something on my to do list every week that encouraged me to get …
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Angel Wings
I heard recently that the brother of someone in my art group passed away suddenly. An image formed in my mind immediately upon reading about it of angel wings on a purple background. Other images have popped in my head over the years and just as quickly popped back out …
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Photo Friday – Red
This week’s photo challenge was to shoot a photo with red as the dominant color. I was thinking about the challenge walking to work the next morning after reading the lesson and I realized that I had just gotten off a Red Line T train, walked past some lovely red …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 52
I can’t believe that I have now been posting these Turn Back Thursday journal quilt posts for an entire year. But, here we are, at the end of my journal quilting project. Like last week’s quilt, this one was made a little late because we were home with a newborn …
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