{"id":2767,"date":"2025-03-23T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T14:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2025-03-23T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T14:51:54","slug":"improvising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"Improvising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I signed on for the #100DayProject again this year, paying a small subscription fee to be part of the Substack. I posted a couple notes there but I only have so much time and energy for writing and sharing so will focus on this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the100dayproject.org\/\">#100DayProject<\/a> is sponsored each year by Lindsay Jean Thompson. The goal of the project is spend 100 days working on a creative project. I started with a plan for combining poetry and gel printing. I followed through on that plan for 10 days or so and was pleased with the results. But, I had subscribed to a monthly quilt box and the second box was on the way while the first box sat explored but unused on the shelf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My time is flexible and mostly my own, but I didn&#8217;t have time for both printing and quilting so moved on to the latter. My #100DayProject turned to quilting for a couple weeks. My subscription comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/mrsquilty.com\/\">Mrs. Quilty<\/a> and is meant for beginners. Each box includes a quilt block in a different pattern and then several utilitarian projects that demonstrate different skills. Fabric in matching designs, often from the same designer, is included; each box also provides a couple quilting tools. You are building your toolkit and fabric stash as you learn. The video tutorials are detailed and easy to follow. I am very pleased. This is an uncompensated review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2409\">shared<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2601\">before<\/a>, I am part of Ali Manning&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/vintagepagedesigns.com\/\">Handmade Book Club<\/a>. She highlights a different book style each month, and my goal this year was to make each one during the month it was featured, thus ending the year with 12 handmade books. I have completed January and February but March&#8217;s coptic stitch binding was more challenging as it included fabric covers and multiple signatures sewn in one at a time. So, I moved on to bookbinding for my #100DayProject. I made a few small, single signature books with gel printed covers and two Valen-zines from gel prints. They got their own folder as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All this to say that I have moved the focus of my project to a bit wider lens of having fun and doing something creative in one of my areas of interest every day. Easter is fast approaching and I need to start making cards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am dropping photos of all the various prints and quilts and books in a Flickr album if you want to see what I have been up to since February 23:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed='true' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/therichardsons\/albums\/72177720324035919' title='2025 100 Day Project by TheRichardsons, on Flickr'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54345989440_7bfe50c841_z.jpg?resize=604%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" alt='Stopping By Woods'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed on for the #100DayProject again this year, paying a small subscription fee to be part of the Substack. I posted a couple notes there but I only have so much time and energy for writing and sharing so will focus on this blog. The #100DayProject is sponsored each year by Lindsay Jean Thompson. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Improvising<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,74,115,31],"tags":[705],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-creativity","category-thinking-out-loud","tag-100dayproject"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-ID","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}