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A day downtown with Vincent, Vivian, and Elizabeth from With Strings Attached

Or, how I spent the last day of August.

I finally went to see Immersive Van Gogh in Chicago. It's been there all summer and closes September 6. (I could drive to Milwaukee to see it but I'd rather take the train downtown. UPDATE: the Chicago and Milwaukee shows are operated by different companies. This article provided details.) IVH is a virtual reality art show. The artwork swirls and morphs as a timeline of the artist's life.

I bought a flex-entry ticket which allowed me to get in earlier than the official time. The show was about ...

added by Nann 2 years, 7 months ago. under chicago history museum , immersive van gogh , just wanna quilt , vivian maier

Broken Star....Mended from Ann Quilts

The color play on this quilt is spectacular!

This turned patching some of the diamonds into one of those good news / bad news situations. Good news: the quilt is gorgeous. Bad news: it really, really needs the perfect patching fabrics so as to not detract from the wonderful color play.

There were just a few diamonds damaged. So it could have been a relatively quick job, but it wasn't....

I had no problem with the pale yellow, the two pale pinks, or an aged white for the background. Here's why.

A few years ago, a friend wrote that ...

added by Ann 2 years, 10 months ago. under broken star , just wanna quilt , quilt repair , vintage fabrics

Piece on Earth from Ann Quilts

Hello, everyone!

I haven't posted here in well over a month....

All healthy, so no worries there, in case any of you noticed my absence and were worried. The whole situation in which we find ourselves took over my attention and energy, and certainly my ability to express it all in words. But I’ve been busy, and here’s what I’ve been doing. It’s been a while, so this will be long! Grab an iced tea (in my hemisphere anyway), and settle in.

— I haven’t been doing much quilt repair. At first, I was too ...

added by Ann 3 years, 9 months ago. under design process , just wanna quilt , polka dots , quilt repair , rainbow , social justice sewing academy

Hallucinating with my Spirit Animal from If These Threads Could Talk

I was entertaining my self with Facebook when I saw a post by my friend and fellow Studio 180 Design Certified Instructor, Karen Overton The Quilt Rambler. Here is some of what she wrote: “The idea began with a talented quilter named Jessica of Jessica Quilter also known on Instagram as @Jessicaquilter. Seems the good folks at Just Wanna Quilt picked up on her inspiration and ran with it! More details can be found here on the JWQ website. Jessica had an idea to use a little bit of her favorite fabrics from her “inventory” and the rest they say ...

added by ifthesethreadscouldtalk 4 years, 1 month ago. under deb tucker , hallucination , inventory quilt project , just wanna quilt , quilting , quilts , spirit animal , studio 180 design , studio 180 design tools , the quilt rambler , tucker trimmer 3 , tucker trimmer iii , tula pink , wedge star tool (Comments)

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