Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 11
Throwback Thursday takes us back to the first week of August in 2011. That weekend, like the other first weekends in August for the last 15 years, my DH rode in the Pan Mass Challenge, a 192-mile, two day ride from the western (ish) part of Massachusetts to the end …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 10
You may not remember a time when the U.S. Government was a tangled mess of bureaucracy, but that’s what was happening in late July 2011, when I made this journal quilt. We were in the midst of a crisis about the debt ceiling and every day the news was filled …
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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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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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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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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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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 2
Welcome to another edition of Throwback Thursday. This week, we look back to the second week of my journal quilting project in early June 2011. Though one of the things that happened during the week was “post vacation laundry,” I instead focused on the heat wave that week with the …
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Throwback Thursday
There’s this thing on Facebook where you post an old picture for what is called “Throwback Thursday.” I don’t really think anyone needs to see old pictures of me, but I am adopting the idea to recreate some old posts from my previous blog. When my life got too far …
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