In this semi-weekly series called Mistake Monday I talk about a cultural taboo: making mistakes. I make mistakes, constantly and aside from mentions of seam ripping I don’t see enough posts online about how people fix these mistakes with passable solutions or how they emotionally moved passed the mistake, let’s break that taboo. I needed…
Month: December 2014
#hashtagblock #SewingForSydney
Thursday night I got home from line dancing and decided to whip up 5 blocks for Molli Sparkles’ charity quilting bee for the survivors of the terrible terrorist attack in Sydney this past week. His requirements were this 5.5″ hashtag block tone-on-tone with white. I dug into my scrap & stash and pulled out these…
Jenn, Jesse, Brianna & Jacob – Christmas Card Photo Session
This first Christmas session this year really pushed me outside my normal box. I normally shoot adults and young adults but when Jenn, a close friend asked me to take some photos for her Christmas cards I knew it’d be a different type of session than I was used to so I jumped at the…
DIY Sewing Christmas Cards Tutorial
I don’t usually send Christmas cards but this year was a little different.This year I wouldn’t be getting my favorite Christmas card, the reliable one from Gram. That really got me thinking about sending out cards so when I suddenly had the idea to sew fabric to the front of a card I knew I…
Kelly & Brendon Family Photos
December is very strange weather here in New England. Sometimes we have snow on the ground, sometimes you can leave the house without a coat. Best of all the beautiful winter light is just wonderful to take photos if your clients are willing to don their best outerwear! My friend Kelly contacted me in November…
Website Update – QuiltAlong.net
So far everyone I’ve emailed/talked to about my project QuiltAlong.net has been really supportive and excited about it and I wanted to post an in-progress update on it! Last weekend I released an update so that now the weekly link parties are availiable on the site: I’ve been excitedly working on the quilt along and…
Quilt Along.net
Haven’t gotten much quilting done this week for a few reasons: I got frustrated that the paper piecing pattern I created had two blocks that came out the wrong size. I’ve yet to fix the pattern and have been kind of a grump about it I had an awesome idea for an ironing board cover…
Hi My Name is Terri and I’ve Been a Big ‘ol Quilt Blog Slacker
I’d love to pretend that any of this is a good excuse but since my last post I left my old job (well my entire office was outsted but that aside…) took a 7 week stay-cation between jobs, spent lots of time with friends and the boyfriend and just plain lived. When I got the…