#TBT – Maple Leaf
We’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time this summer out in the Berkshires near Lake Garfield, which reminded me this morning of my 11th quilt. I made these maple leaves in 2005, (well, it’s hand quilted so 2003 – 2005) for my husband’s aunt and uncle.
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Design Wall – No More Names Quilt – Aurora
One of the interesting things to me as I took on this project was to realize that only one state has had more than one mass shooting (with more than 10 victims) during the last 20 years. Colorado saw the first mass shooting of the recent string in Littleton and …
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Design Wall – No More Names Quilt – Texas
Last week was a pretty productive one for my “No More Names” quilt. In addition to finishing the New York blocks, I also got the blocks made for the victims of the Fort Hood, TX shooting in 2009.
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Design Wall – No More Names Quilt – New York blocks
I have finished another group of blocks for my “No More Names” mass shooting quilt. These are the victims of a shooting in 2009, in Binghamton, New York. Working on these blocks saddened me because I realized that I had forgotten completely about this shooting, which is exactly the point …
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#TBT – Fosterfields Log Cabin
I just posted a thumbnail version of this quilt on my new Lectures page to illustrate my “Quilts in U.S. History” lecture. It was based on on a quilt made in New Jersey in 1920, and I machine pieced and hand quilted it for Fosterfields Living Historical Farm in Morristown, …
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New Project – No More Names Quilt
I started a new quilt, though it’s not a happy one. The week after the attack at the night club in Orlando, I was sitting at my machine, sewing the very pretty blue and white quilt for my bedroom and thinking about the news. I found myself just heart sick …
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What’s on my bed? A scrap quilt
I’m thinking about this today because one of my projects over the weekend was to dig into my big basket of scraps (in a lovely quatrefoil urn made by my neighbor Wendy Jensen) and to cut 2 1/2″ squares and 1 1/2″ strips. I find this to be a good …
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#TBT – Colnago, 2008
In honor of Father’s Day this week, I’m sharing a small art quilt I made for my husband in 2008, as a “Creative Play” project. It sat finished in my “UFO” drawer for years, but I am happy to say that it’s been hanging in his bike room now for …
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Design Wall (Definitely Not Monday) – Arabesque #4
I have been postponing this post, trying to get the top to “Arabesque #4” finished and now I finally have. From this photo, you can’t see all of the pleats that are on the inside corners of the green crosses; I finally got them right on the last set of …
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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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