Design Wall Tuesday – Ravaging Rio
I have spent the last few days making grandfather clocks. I realized as I put on the facing for one of the “Ravaging Rio” pages that I had trimmed it wrong, leaving me a little short on floor and baseboard on one page. I needed to come up with something …
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Photo Friday – Windows
The challenge for this past week in my Ricky Tims’ 2016 Photo Challenge class was “windows.” A few minutes after I finished reading the lesson, I hopped up to walk down the hall, walked past my laundry room, stopped, backed up, and noticed this window. (The caption is exactly what …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 36
The week of January 26, 2012, brought a bit of Spring-like weather so I revisited the wintry journal quilt from a few weeks earlier and created this quilt using the same techniques:
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Design Wall Tuesday
Monday was another busy day around here so Design Wall Monday is happening on Tuesday again. Today, two more pages from “Ravaging Rio.”
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Photo Friday
Week 2’s Photo Challenge was “Line.” I shot some pictures in Harvard Square until my fingers stopped working from the cold and settled on this image as my submission for the week:
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 35
By Week 35 of my journal quilting project, my pregnancy was in full swing, so to speak. Inspired by the Batman television series, I created this journal quilt to record those first kicks. I put scrapbooking stickers on fabric, painted over them with fabric paints and then removed the stickers …
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Design Wall Monday – on Tuesday
What I have been working on lately could qualify for Throwback Thursday. I started working on these in 2012 and then put them away from a while. I just picked them back up and got the facing done on 9 quilts over the weekend. Many years ago, my sister wrote …
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Photo Friday – Selective Focus
In the last incarnation of my blog, I had a feature called “Photo Friday.” Photography is another love of mine. I’m not an amazing photographer, but it’s been something that I have enjoyed for as long as I can remember. The last photography class that I took, however, was in …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 34
This week in 2012, I was inspired by the mundane. It was Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and we had dinner with good friends at our house, but the most interesting thing that happened during the weekend seems to have been that our generator came on. The power wasn’t out …
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7th Time is a Charm!
Finally, finally the top for Arabesque #3 is done. The center star required seven tries, cutting out three different stars, cursing, and prayers. It’s still not done well, but I decided that seven was my limit. If it lays flat when it’s quilted, it will be a miracle.
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