#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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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 33
This week’s journal quilt was one of my favorites because of the cool batiks and the silver threads used to create bare winter trees. I made it the week of January 5th, 2012, and it just makes me think of the hush of a winter blanket of snow.
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 32
Week 32 of my journal quilting project fell over New Year’s 2012. We had a typical New Year’s celebration of dinner, a movie, and a Harney & Sons visit with our dear friends. But, it was also the Iowa caucus and my DH suggested that I use that and the …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 31
We had a scare just before Christmas in 2011. I was pregnant with our daughter and we went in for the second ultrasound a few days before Christmas. The doctor reading the ultrasound couldn’t get a good view of her heart and he asked us to come back the next …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 30
This week in 2011 during my journal quilt project, Christmas prep was in full swing and my kitchen had become a rum cake factory. I have probably made hundreds of this cake over the years. I first made it in 1988 (probably), when a teacher of mine pulled me aside …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 29
I admit it. I’m a little Scroogey when it comes to Christmas, especially when I am working full-time. It doubles an already too-long to do list and amps up my stress level to the point where the machinery starts shaking and smokes start pouring out. This year, I am not …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 28
Journal Quilt #28 has a satin-stitched door that opens to reveal a photo of my studio. This weekend is the Monterey Makers Studio Tour in Monterey, MA. This year’s event is being held at the library on Saturday, rather than being a studio tour. But, when I participated in 2011, …
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Happy Thanksgiving
TBT will return next week. This week, I want to take the time to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that in the midst of this busy weekend, you’ll find a few moments for quilting. I am incredibly thankful for the journey that I have been on …
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History of Quilting in America – Crazy Quilts, 1890 – 1920
Crazy Quilts, 1890-1920 The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 and interest in Japanese art sparked the Crazy Quilt. It was fashionable for genteel upper-class ladies to use needlework as a proper use of leisure time. They had servants to do the mundane work. In the rapid changes in the world, …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 27
This journal quilt is my favorite from the year. in 2011, we flew to visit my sister in Denver for Thanksgiving and then made an ill-advised 7 hour drive to Durango to ride the Polar Express Train. It was a lot of time spent in a minivan driving over mountains …
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