Category: Uncategorized

A deadly encounter

68 Comments

It is 6:27 in the morning and I just got a call from Bob on his way to work.  This is very unusual.  He was very upset; I could hear it in his voice.

He said he was traveling through a local wooded area and saw two deer on the side of the road.  At the very last possible moment one of them bolted.

He just walked through the door.  He is OK, but his spirit is damaged.

I am sad for both of them.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Dimples must be related to a TIMEX.  She takes a licken’ and keeps on ticken’.

Over the past five years:

  1. Rear end collision (not at fault (NAF)
  2. Rear end collision – second in one week! (NAF)
  3. Golf ball and Tangerine sized hail damage!!!  (Car is named Dimples after that.)
  4. Hit a telephone pole hydroplaning at Dead Man’s Curve!
  5. Hit a deer.  😦
Related articles

Taking a vacation?

21 Comments

Well, yes I am.

Where am I going?  To work!

Where am I working?  HERE!

When will I be back?  On the 24th, that’s two weeks, and hopefully, I will have lots of pictures of lots of things accomplished in 14 days.  😉

See Ya’ll then!

PS:   OK, if it’s really good I’ll be popping a picture up on the Farmlet’s Facebook page… 

 

4 Comments

ATTENTION: If you are a WordPress user and are ANNOYED with the automatic check marks in the follow the conversation box at the end of each comment you make, then

READ THE ABOVE ARTICLE FROM WORDPRESS! 

You can now get rid of it in your global settings.

Beau Lebens's avatarWordPress.com News

Update (May 17): Since this feature went live we’ve had a bunch of feedback and it looks like following comments by default is not a good fit for a lot of bloggers (and their readers) after all. We looked at a few different options, but for now we’ve just changed things back to how they were before. To follow a conversation, make sure you check the box when you post a comment.

It’s now much easier for you and your commenters to keep track of the conversations you’re involved in across WordPress.com. Some recent tests have shown that by subscribing commenters to new comments by default, they are more likely to stay engaged and come back and comment more on your blog. With that knowledge, we’ve changed the default comment following behavior to help you get more conversations going on your blog.

We made the initial changes last week and after…

View original post 171 more words

IMperfectionism: the humility block in quilting

31 Comments

Recently, when taking my newly quilted table runner to my quilting group, I mentioned to a few of the ladies what I had been working on and then brought up the subject of my imperfect block.  Comments? Yes, and two of note were:

“What mistake? I can’t see it?  (I point it out)  OH…  just leave it in.”

and

“Oh, that will be your ‘humility block.’  Just leave it!”  Whereupon she proceeded to tell me about how the Amish always leave in an imperfect block in their quilts because it shows their humility to God.

Well, I went looking for the Humility Block and guess what?  It just isn’t true.  As near as can be found, the concept began in about 1948.  You have to wonder why people make things up like that.  😉

So now, if you go to your quilters guild and ask, they may well tell you the myth, and in great detail, but you will know the truth of it.  Want to know more about this charming, but entirely untrue quilter’s tale?  Then go to Hart Heritage Quilts  (scroll down a ways on this site)  or to Cats Quilt Art to read in more detail.

So, what did I ultimately decide to do?  After reading about how many vintage and antique quilts there are out there with a high value attached to them, and that the imperfections are considered ‘quirks’ of the maker… well, I decided to let it go.  I’ve  bound it, its done, and I’m happy.

The block is called *“Railroad.”  The table runner is machine pieced and quilted, however the binding is hand sewn!

Though I must confess I do sort of like the myth behind the Humility Block.  Old or new to the quilting tradition, the quirky block in even the oldest of quilts stands the test of time, and I don’t care when the myth was begun.   I like it.

~*~

~*~
So what’s next?
NOTE:  I find that I have called my four patch block the “Underground RR,” and it is actually simply called “Railroad.”  I found the pattern on the Civil War Quilts website, in which Barbara Brackman stated that, “Railroad can symbolize the end of the Underground Railroad, a change in the strategy of escape from slavery.” (Emphasis mine)  The fact that I loved the block and purchased the fabric for it almost a year ago, but was afraid to cut it out for fear of ruining it (!!!) had apparently combined her comment, and the quilts actual name, in my mind between then and now.  So, thank you to Tracy Byers for, indirectly, pointing out my mistake!  😉