#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 23
Happy Halloween! Week 23 of my journal quilting project in 2011, fell over Halloween and a memorable one at that since it snowed over a foot. I did reverse applique for the jack o’lanterns face, which allowed me to create the glow behind it with some Shiva paint sticks.
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 21
You will have noticed that I skipped Throwback Thursday last week. I wanted to talk about the quilts that I had finished for the Rising Star Quilters Quilt Show instead. Of course, that makes this week’s throwback journal quilt even more timely. This week in 2011, as Asst. Treasurer for …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 20
At the same time that I was in my first trimester in the fall of 2011, I was working on a consulting project that had me in a terrible office building in Hartford, CT that was surrounded by locked gates and security guards. I drove down on Monday mornings, flashed …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 19
The week of September 29th, 2011 was a momentous one for me, an unexpectedly momentous one. When I started the journal quilting project, I didn’t expect anything particularly interesting to happen in my life. My DH and I were settling into a nice, comfy place after building our dream home …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 17
Week 17 of my journal quilt project in 2011 (September 15th) was when Fall really hit. I mentioned last week that the leaves in Western Mass. start turning at the end of August, but the weather generally stays warm and gorgeous into September. However, this week in 2011, it felt …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 16
Rather than celebrating the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, during this week 16 of my journal quilting project in 2011, I decided instead to celebrate the beginning of Fall. No, it wasn’t the official start of the season, but in the Berkshires in Western Mass., the leaves begin turning …
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#TBT – Journal Quilt Week 15
Week 15 of the Journal Quilt project in 2011 brought Labor Day and the end of summer, celebrated with attendance at Lobster Fest, an annual fundraiser supporting The Berkshire National Fish Hatchery. I think that my lobster was a little overstuffed because sewing around it ended up being quite a …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 14
The journal quilt for the week of August 25th, 2011, probably says more about what wasn’t happening that week than what was. The biggest event of the week was Hurricane Irene, but I didn’t make any particular notes about why. I live in the mountains in Western Massachusetts. A hurricane …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 13
I have always been a little triskaidekaphobic, which means fear of the number thirteen, though admittedly part of it is just loving the word for it. So, it shouldn’t come as much surprise that a natural event occurred during Journal Quilt Week 13 in August of 2011. That week, there …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 12
Week 12 of my journal quilting project fell the week of August 11, 2011. That weekend my DH and I attended an annual fundraising gala for the Bidwell House Museum in Monterey, MA. The party must have had a Caribbean theme or island feel to it because my journal notes …
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