The outer border on this quilt is the large green dot shown in the bottom corner of the picture. This border was added next leaving .125 of the small red dot piping peeking through. Once I was comfortable with this I started sewing the piping and borders on in one step. Until then it is best to see the piping in place before adding the next border or binding.
Your Invited- Jan. 19- 26
Stash Books and Moda Bake Shop has joined together to create a “filling” book by a few a the moda bake shop chefs. If you are a fan of the the moda bake shop, you will want to join along in the progressive dinner blog hop Jan 19th through Jan 26th. Each day meet 2 of the contributing authors, find out their favorite moda precut, and learn other tasty bits from each of the chefs. Each chef would love to have you come to their home for an actual progressive dinner, but there is not enough room to park in the driveway. SO, find out how we will be sending you part of the progressive dinners to your home.
TGIF
Hello to all,
Hope you are somewhere safe and warm with all the crazy weather as of late. I am a bit jet lagged and hope to catch up on my blog posts soon. I have had the wonderful opportunity to travel with the moda designer director for the past week. I hope to catch up on my sleep, sewing and blogging. (laundry and cooking? there will time for that later)
In the mean time I wanted to share this bit of interesting video from 1968. Powers of Ten is a 1968 American documentary short film written and directed by Ray and Charles Eames, rereleased in 1977. It is an adventure in magnitudes and remains truly stunning over 30 years later. A zero seems like a simple thing until you add it to the end of a number.
Could we apply the Powers of Ten to smiles, caring, giving?
Have a wonderful weekend,
Lissa
Friday Funny- White House QUilting Bee
Now we knows what Larry King is doing in his retirement. This is almost as great as the quilting charmin commercial where they were using knitting needles. DON”T WORRY…. a box of Moda Fabrics is headed to the White House. I wouldn’t want them to sew on that !$#&%$(^% stuff from the chains.
Hiliary shows up…. the way she describes quilting is exactly what my husband said when I first started quilting.
Friday Funny- Happy New Year
French photographer Sacha Goldberger found his 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother Frederika feeling lonely and depressed. To cheer her up, he suggested that they shoot a series of outrageous photographs in unusual costumes, poses, and locations. Grandma reluctantly agreed
With the unexpected success of this series, titled “Mamika” (or grandma in Hungarian), Goldberger created a MySpace page for her. She now has over 2,200 friends and receives messages like: “You’re the grandmother that I have dreamed of, would you adopt me?” and ” You made my day, I hope to be like you at your age.”
Give or take the 20 something age difference between Sacha’s grandmother and my mother, there are many similarities.Enjoy the pictures.
“Mamika” (or grandma in Hungarian),
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/grandmas-superhero-therapy-18
Photgrapher Sacha Goldberger
http://www.sachabada.com/
I cannot believe he has only been a photographer for 4 years.
Friday Funny- Merry Christmas
Friday Funny
One of the titles for a future blog post WAS going to be acroynms for quilting and texting.
Then my friend Gene sent me this and thought it was perfect for my Friday Funny.
Since more and more Seniors are texting and tweeting there appears to be a need for a STC (Senior Texting Code).
Hard to get a good picture
The plan was easy. Cook, then spread the word and they would all magically appear for some grub and a photo op. My daughter had other plans- a Dallas Cowboy game watching party- so we had to quickly call the troops and rearrange the plans.
The older kid in each set (Grant and Travis) both have September birthdays, 10 days apart.
The younger kid in each set ( Jarrod and Bo) both have July birthdays, 10 days apart.
They are such a great study for birth order. The Birth Order book by Kevin Leman is a fantastic book. I highly recommend it. When I teach quilting classes I can guess what birth order the students are.
name him. We have named him so he may have to stay.
My Great Anne
I have a great aunt on my father’s side. When I was young, she would come and stay when my parents would go out of town. My parents rarely went on a trip, so the sheer fact that these times are so memorable, speaks volumes for Anne’s uniqueness. She was full of energy and seemed to easily keep up with my 2 rambunctious brothers, my boy crazy sister and myself, the angel.
Anne would never inconvenience anyone. Not even to phone home to check in with her family in Temple, Texas. She would walk to the 7-11 to use the pay phone, just so my mom and dad would not have to pay the charges. (I wonder if Anne has a cell phone, now?)
Looking back, she did say some ODD things. In her energetic voice, she would say,
Now, I will tell you I am a natural blond and often live up to the reputation that brings. But seriously, I would scratch my head and look at the clock T I C K T O C K. The clocked looked like it was moving at the same speed for me at 9 years old as it was for her at 59. I literally thought she was cuckoo.
Now that I am closer to 59 than 9, I see what Annie meant. How does that darn clock move so much faster now than it did before?………especially during the holiday season?
I thought I would share this 2 part video as my FRIDAY FUNNY in honor of my great aunt Anne.
Just think how great it would be to SLOW DOWN the hands of time.
(disclaimer- you only need to watch the first bit of this one to get the point. Then it starts to get creepy and remind me of an old drunk uncle- not mine of course)
I hope you have a wonderful Friday and that you are able to slow down and laugh out loud!!
-lissa
6 degrees of separation
Bear with me for a bit of factual information courtesy of the world wide web.
Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called “Chains.”
In 1967, American sociologist Stanley Milgram devised a new way to test the theory, which he called “the small-world problem.” He randomly selected people in the mid-West to send packages to a stranger located in Massachusetts. The senders knew the recipient’s name, occupation, and general location. They were instructed to send the package to a person they knew on a first-name basis who they thought was most likely, out of all their friends, to know the target personally. That person would do the same, and so on, until the package was personally delivered to its target recipient. Although the participants expected the chain to include at least a hundred intermediaries, it only took (on average) between five and seven intermediaries to get each package delivered.
Six degrees of separation became an accepted notion in pop culture after Brett C. Tjaden published a computer game on the University of Virginia’s Web site based on the small-world problem. Tjaden used the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) to document connections between different actors. Time Magazine called his site, The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia, one of the “Ten Best Web Sites of 1996.”In 2001, Duncan Watts, a professor at Columbia University, continued his own earlier research into the phenomenon and recreated Milgram’s experiment on the Internet. Watts used an e-mail message as the “package” that needed to be delivered, and surprisingly, after reviewing the data collected by 48,000 senders and 19 targets (in 157 countries), Watts found that the average number of intermediaries was indeed, six. Watts’ research, and the advent of the computer age, has opened up new areas of inquiry related to six degrees of separation in diverse areas of network theory such as as power grid analysis, disease transmission, graph theory, corporate communication, and computer circuitry.
If you do not believe any of the above scientific information, check out this site. Enter any stars name and it will tell you how that star is connected to Kevin Bacon in 6 “steps”or less.
I gave it a try and plugged in Antonio Banderas. ( My mom thinks he is sexy!)
The funny thing is that over 80 years from when Frigyes Karinthy first wrote his short story,”Chains”, little did he know of the Social Media Revolution of 2010. They say that with Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, etc. the separation gap has actually closed to 3 degrees.
It actually happened to me today at work. I met a NEW FRIEND that is related to an OLD FRIEND. I will tell you about this in May. But in the meantime, watch this great Kevin Bacon commercial to further prove my point. On a side note, is he embroidering?! Enjoy!
ADDITIONAL INFO TO BLOG POST:
I recieved the following e-mail from Kate Spain this morning.
I asked her if I could share this with you. Small world!
That “6 degrees” theory is totally amazing! Can’t wait to learn what your new friend/old friend connection is! So I went to the Oracle of Bacon site…and this is kind of funny…my Dad had a teenie weenie part in a movie called “Eight Men Out”…so just for kicks, I typed my Dad’s name in there and look what turned up!! -Kate
So Kate’s father is 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon also.
What fun! Thanks Kate for adding to my mindless entertainment.