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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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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