Friday Funny

I don’t know how funny this really is.
My post today is being renamed
Amazing Friday?
Johanna Quaas of Germany recently competed in the International Senior Gala. At the ripe age of 86 she competed in four different apparatus. Johanna began her gymnast career at the age of 50. I am 50.!!!!! This is where the amazing part comes in. I have 36 years before the 2048 International Senior Gala. This would make me the exact age of Johanna.

AMAZING
I could barely pass gymnastic class in elementary school.
It was like watching a giraffe try and stay balanced on the uneven bars.

My hats off to you, Johanna. I can’t wait to see what you do when you are 90.
Have a great weekend.
My book show n tell starts next week. There may be a few giveaways sprinkled in.

friday funny- out of the mouths of babes

NUDITY

I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, ‘Mom, that lady isn’t wearing a seat belt!’  

OPINIONS
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, ‘The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents ..’

KETCHUP
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone.. ‘Mommy can’t come to the phone to talk to you right now She’s hitting the bottle.

MORE NUDITY

A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women’s locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, ‘What’s the matter, haven’t you ever seen a little boy before?’  

POLICE # 1

While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, ‘Are you a cop? Yes,’ I answered and continued writing the report. My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?’ ‘Yes, that’s right,’ I told her. ‘Well, then,’ she said as she extended her foot toward me, ‘would you please tie my shoe?’  

POLICE #2

It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. ‘Is that a dog you got back there?’ he asked.

‘It sure is,’ I replied.

Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, ‘What’d he do?

ELDERLY

While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, ‘The tooth fairy will never believe this!’  

DRESS-UP

A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, ‘Daddy, you shouldn’t wear that suit.’
‘And why not, darling?’
‘You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning.’
 

DEATH

While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.

The minister’s son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: ‘Glory be unto the Father, and unto the Son, and into the hole he goes.’ (I want this line used at my funeral!) 

SCHOOL

A little girl had just finished her first week of school. ‘I’m just wasting my time,’ she said to her mother. ‘I can’t read, I can’t write, and they won’t let me talk!’
 

BIBLE

A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.

‘Mama, look what I found,’ the boy called out.

‘What have you got there, dear?’

With astonishment in the young boy’s voice, he answered, ‘I think it’s Adam’s underwear!’

NOW IF THIS DIDN’T BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY, GO BACK TO BED AND FORGET IT

Schnibbles Quilt Along

I am now month 2 in to the Schnibbles Quilt Along. I took your advise from my previous post and used Friendship collection by Howard Marcus. However, I used Etchings by 3 sisters as the background for all my geese.
I have all my geese units done.
 Half of the block assembled and some rows started.  I did not get quite as far as I would have liked to, but….
 I am not completely finished. I could come up with some pretty convincing arguments such as my sewing machine was hit by a truck or my dog ate my fabric or there was a thread strike OR I could say that market is 2 weeks away and I have 20 other quilts that I have to make happen. One of these 4 things is true. Guess which one?
My geese were all sewn and ready to trim with Monica’s handy ruler. This is the before picture.
Trimming
This is the after. Precision heaven.
Points, points points! It wasn’t me. It was the ruler!
I have never used a design board before so I thought I would give it a whirl.
 I played with the blocks on point. I guess that could also be a reason I am not finished also.
Thank you for stopping by.

Friday Funny


Would you PRESS THE BUTTON TO ADD DRAMA?Makes some of my drama filled days seem simple.Have a wonderful calm weekend unless you are sewing a project for quilt market If so get after it or  will send the football team to carry you away.
Over and Out.
modalissa

Quilt Roll 2- Bruises

I do not always give my quilts names but this one is an exception.
 It’s name is
Bruises.
It did not earn it’s name because of any bumps or scrapes that occured  during the quilting process. It earned its name because of the colors… Black and Blue.
I know that is lame but I am easily amused.
I made this quilt 14-18 years ago. I was the buyer for a local quilt store. I felt personally responsible for when a fabric was not selling. This was the case for the striped border and the toile backing. I bought enough fabric for a backing and decided to give the fabric a home plus ensure my job security. I knew the stripe would make a perfect border.  I started diving into my stash  and cutting strips from all
my black, blue and white fabrics.
Can you imagine this was PRE- Jelly Roll days? You might as well call it Pre-historic.
Once I had a big pile of strips I knew exactly what I was going to make.
As you will see with many of my quilts, I don’t make them for any certain room or to match that perfect bed emsemble. I make them becasue I enjoy the process and like playing with color.
The log Cabin block is one of my all time favorite blocks and the pineapple block certainly falls in my top ten. I used the Pineapple Ruler by Possibilities which makes the process so much better.
Shazam,  I mitered the striped border to meet so nicely in all the corners until I got to corner 4.  Corner 4 is shown in the first picture.  My motto, if it doesn’t match…. piece another block and throw it in the corner.
It is amazing how many of the fabrics look brand new and just a few have faded over time.
I love my large plaid binding cut on the bias. This was over 15 years ago. I was such a rebel or a trendsetter, not quite sure which one. No comments please!
Now I am to the picture with the backing fabric that
would not sell.
Talk about trendsetters.
This fabric was way before it’s time.
We couldn’t give it away then.
The funny story is that I hung this quilt up in the store to teach a pineapple class and guess
what fabric every one wanted. 
 We couldn’t get any more.
I guess that is one of those things that never changes.
Thanks for listening to me carry on about quilt # 2 in my Quilt Roll.

the over 40 crowd- friday funny

If you are not over 40 some of this may seem harsh and possibly very odd you. Forward it to your mother, she will completely understand. I am over 40 and if I did forward it to my mother she would call and ask how to make the RAT work. 
 “mom, it is a mouse, don’t call it a rat.”

This came in to me as one of those group e-mails that has been around a hundred times but it still is so relevant. Not sure who wrote it, but kuddos to you.

Hilarious!

 When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning…. Uphill… Barefoot… BOTH ways…yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it!

But now that I’m over the ripe old age of forty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today. You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it!
1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the  library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter – with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
3) Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our $%#^#! Nowhere was safe!
4) There were no MP3’s or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favorite tape and “eject” it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that’s how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) We didn’t have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that’s it!
7) There weren’t any freaking’ cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn’t make a call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your “friends”. OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror… not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there’s TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
8) And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie,  the collection agent… you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
9) We didn’t have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘Asteroids’. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off the couch and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what’s the world coming to?!?!

11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I’m saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons.

12) And we didn’t have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play… all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside… you were doing chores!

And car seats – oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the “safety arm” across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling “shot gun” in the first place!

See! That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!

Quilt Roll Call- Brushed Hearts

I thought I would start a Quilt Roll Call. 
As I  take pictures of the quilts in the stack from this post, I will do a blog post about them.
This is mainly to document the quilts since I was not good about doing this in the past.
 If my feeble memory will allow, I will include any info I can about the pattern, fabric line and quilter.
This is actually one of the very few quilts that I have made using hand applique. A variety of designers had brushed cottons in their lines such a Brannock and Patek, Brackman and Thompson and more.
The quilt was made from brushed wovens that have the look of flannel but are the weight of a regular cotton. This made the applique very easy and for a rookie appliquer like myself the plaids also made the stitches disappear. The majority of the quilt was made from the scraps in the cutting room at moda. When the cap sets and made for the sale reps there are a couple of 4 1/2″ strips left over. A few of us would split up the scraps, oops I mean treasures and add them to our stash. This quilt even has a few pieces of fabrics that were
 never actually put into production.
We call those BAD STRIKE OFFS.
How can a fabric be bad?
Sometimes there are just so many choices from the mill for the designer to choose from.
I am glad it is not my job to eliminate the fabrics. They seem like orphans to me. I collect them and someday will have a quilt that none of the fabric ever existed.
Is that an oxymoron? …..make a quilt from fabric that never existed?
The back of this quilt is a polka dot. I usually pick a theme for my backings for the entire year. I didn’t finish this quilt top in time to use a plaid on the back. I would have needed to complete the quilt top about 2 years earlier, so it spilled over into the year of the dot backings (approx 2009-2010)
Here is a closeup of the quilting and my WONDERFUL, INVISIBLE APPLIQUE stitches.
I think my eyes were much younger then.
Hope you enjoyed Quilt 1 of the Roll Call.