Now on Etsy – Rainbow Sprinkles
I’ve realized that one of the things that I lost when my blog blew up and I lost all of those years of content was the creation stories of most of my quilts. So, I have decided to recreate some of those, at least for the quilts that are available …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 9
The technique that I learned for my Week 9 Journal Quilt (July 21, 2011) was patience. I tried several projects and nothing was working out. I finally reminded myself that I only wanted to allot a few hours to each journal quilt and decided to call “time” on the project. …
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Happy Birthday to Me!
Two weeks ago, I celebrated a milestone birthday. My gift to myself was to finally pursue my passion and make quilting my career (albeit one supported with some digital strategy and data governance consulting work). My darling husband’s gift to me was the following gift certificate: A gift for Julie/ …
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I Spy
My baby started preschool today. It wasn’t pretty. Though she’s been in day care since she was 5 months old and her “preschool” is really just a new classroom upstairs from her old one at day care, my daughter wanted none of it this morning. We’ve been on vacation for …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 8
Week 8 of the Journal Quilt Project fell in mid-July of 2011, in the middle of the Tour de France. My DH is a serious cyclist with several road bikes (which really has its advantages when it comes to buying new sewing machines. When I tell him how much a …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 7
The week of July 7, 2011 brought the relief of rain after a heat wave (a New England heat wave granted, but heat by our standards). I went back to the Glitter from Superior Threads and pulled out the silver to use with a piece of gray batik to create …
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Launching My New Life
Today is my 40th birthday. I am celebrating at the spa with my mother and sister and at the lake with the rest of my immediate family and a bottle of champagne. But, my gift to myself is that I am finally going to follow my bliss, pursue my calling, …
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Throwback Thursday – Week 6
Throwback Thursday this week takes us back to the Fourth of July in 2011. I’d been doing Superior Threads‘ Superior University and had a nice pile of Glitter threads to play with so . . .
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Arabesque #1
The first of my geometric tiles quilts is complete. It’s all pieced using templates and a bazillion Y seams in batik fabrics and simply quilted around the tiles. Let me know what you think!
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 5
I broke with convention for this week’s journal quilt of June 23 – 29, 2011, and made a much bigger, wall-hanging sized quilt. I made the quilt the week of my birthday and wanted to have 36 candles around the border, but didn’t want to have to piece tiny, tiny …
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