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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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 4
This journal quilt was absolutely one of my favorites. I made it during the week of June 16, 2011, inspired by the bounty of summer. We get a weekly delivery of organic, local fruits and vegetables from Berkshire Organics and it’s always a treat to open the box to see …
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Mindless projects
In addition to having trouble getting started on a Monday morning, one of the other things that I know about myself from my work in Corporate America was that I could rarely expect two highly productive days in a row. I’d have one day when I was just cruising through …
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Getting Going
Monday mornings are not my most productive time. When I am working in Corporate America, I don’t really care about that. People rarely schedule meetings first thing on a Monday so I can usually ease into the week by reading through my email and planning my to do list. Now …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilts Week 3
For Throwback Thursday this week, we’re going back to the third week of my journal quilting project, June 9 – 15, 2011. This particular journal quilt is one that I could easily have made this week in 2015. In 2011, My DH and I visited our favorite tea shop, Harney …
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More Tile Work
I continued working on Tiles #1 this week, my first geometric tiles quilt. I am now at the point of thinking about when to stop making tiles. I have no set size in mind and am waiting for the quilt to say, “I am big enough!” I think that we …
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