#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 42
I am sitting in front of an open window as I write this, enjoying spring-like weather in early March. The same seems to have been true of the week of March 8th in 2012 because spring was the theme: These little snow drops are fused and stitched using batiks.
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Design Wall Tuesday – Rio’s Title Page
“Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library” now has a title page. All that remains now is the penultimate page.
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New Projects – #APQResolution
I mentioned that I had started the American Patchwork & Quilting 2016 UFO Challenge. To do the challenge, you catalog your UFO projects, assign numbers 1 – 12 to each one, and when APQ draws the number each month, you complete the UFO. I’m behind already on February’s project, but …
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Photo Friday – Abandoned
This week’s challenge was “Abandoned.” We had a great old car parked out in one of the back fields of the farm where I grew up that would have been wonderful for this, but that car’s probably long gone and that field is someone’s yard now. Instead, I took a …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 41
I know that I haven’t actually been creating any of these journal quilts, just reposting ones that I lost when my blog blew up, but it’s still hard to believe that I have already been at that for 41 weeks. In this quilt, I celebrated celebrating my husband’s grandmother’s 99th …
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Design Wall Tuesday – Discovery
I have finished page 25 of the “Ravaging Rio and the Ghost in the Library” book. In it, Julie discovers the medal due to Rio’s destruction.
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New Projects
2016 seems to be a year of finishing for me. I started the American Patchwork & Quilting’s 2016 UFO Challenge (and I’ll share photos of my completed projects soon). I’ve also decided to tackle one room in my house each month to “finish” it. We have a lovely house, but …
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Photo Friday – Black and White
I love black and white photography. It might be nostalgia because many years ago when I first learned photography, I shot in black and white, developed my own film, and printed my own pictures. I loved being in a dark room and working with film and prints. I wish this …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 40
Mmmm. In Week 40 of my journal quilt project in 2012, we toured the Taza Chocolate Factory in Somerville, MA. This quilt represents the different flavors of their chocolate wedges: chipotle, cinnamon, coffee, ginger, orange, vanilla, etc.
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Design Wall Tuesday – “Stage 1- Destruction”
Two more Ravaging Rio pages in which he executes on his plan and awaits judgment.
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