Appleton Dance

Jake, summer 2017 at Warren Dunes State Park, Michigan by Linda Theil I made Jake's Christmas present this year using  Blurb's  bookmaking program  BookWright . I've used this free, and easy-to-use, program to make many books that are available on-demand from the  Blurb site .  I took photos at the  Warren Dunes State Park  in southwest Michigan this August, so I put together a picture book using these and other photos that Alisa and I had taken over the summer. Alisa helped me put the pages together with photos, dates, and information about Jake's summer of 2017.  A free view of the entire book,  Jake Theil: summer nine 2017  is available online at the blurb site. Or click on the image below to view. Jake Theil: summer nine 2017 By photos by Linda Theil

Folded box made of pages from Fons & Porter "Scrap Quilting". I have been making these Origami boxes for a very long time. They are beautiful and elegant and very easy to fold. Start with two squares of paper of any size and by making the box twice, you have both top and bottom that fit easily inside each other.  The Fons and Porter Love of Quilting TV series featured a box made of pages from a quilting magazine in the "Tips" section of program # 3001 titled "Diagonally Set Log Cabin Quilts" . I thought this would be an excellent way to highlight these wonderful little paper boxes that are such a pleasure to create. There is a very good video of how to create this box at "Classic Origami Box" on Instructables.com, and "Easy Origami Open Box" . I have shown my process here with a page from the Fons & Porter special bonus issue, "Scrap Quilts". I have developed a simple mnemonic to help me remember how to m...

"Interlocked Squares" quilt block as used in the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild logo Completed "Interlocked Squares" block using method described in this post. I found a version of the "Interlocked Squares" quilt block -- similar to the block used in the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild logo -- on the Field Guide to Quilts  site. The AMC Quilts site also had an  "Interlocking Squares" piecing guide . The AMC site used a piecing plan different from the Field Guide site. The AMC site featured a snowballing technique that I thought simplified the piecing process for this block considerably. I used the snowballing technique featured on the AMC site to lay out a sixteen-inch "Interlocked Squares" block that exactly replicates  the block used in the GAAQG logo shown above. Here is a graphic of the block on 1/4-inch graph paper. Graphic A: Layout for 16-inch "Interlocked Squares" quilt block as used in the GAAQG logo  ...