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Two more blocks - yellow-green (greenish-yellow?) and black. They are 16-inch blocks.
The plan is to use Connie (Freemotion by the River's) QAYG tutorial for finishing them off www.conniekresin.com/2013/03/qayg-tutorial-ra
371 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC.
This is one of Kamloops’ finest downtown brick business blocks. It was built in 1914 by G.W. & R. Godman as an office and commercial building. A few years previous, the Ellis family had moved to Kamloops from San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. The father, W.J. Ellis, opened a garage and machine shop on Lorne Street, which remained in business until 1982. One of the sons, W.O. Ellis, became a pharmacist and in 1917 formed a partnership with A. Galloway. They opened an office and pharmacy on the ground floor of the Godmans’ block.
The Galloway-Ellis drugstore continued in operation on this site under various owners until 1994. The name of the business block was changed to Ellis Block in 1951 when W.O. Ellis bought the building.
This block was built by Kamloops contractors, Johnston & Gill using their own signature bricks. It is a two-storey building, with a basement. On the east side, the main entrance is flanked by two large granite Doric columns. Step back to appreciate the brick frieze and ornamental parapet along the top edge of the building.
Ok..may not be the block of my dreams...but got 23 of them for $20. Enough to do a low wall. Now the chipping off the old cement...wish me luck.
srshews asked for a blue, red and turquoise/teal block. I always love making blocks in this colour combination and I really love the print fabric from Kate Spain's "Fandango" line that I included in this block.
The design is inspired by the book "Vivacious Curvy Quilts" by Dianne S. Hire and I modified her techinque by using my Curve Master Presser Foot (which works as advertised, I am happy to report -- no pinning required!)
Block 11 :: by Fat Quarterly
I missed at step in this block and didn't trim my HSTs when I should have, so my seams don't match up. I'm going to try to live with it and see what it looks like once I put all the blocks together.
I love the block though - just wish I'd read the instructions properly :)
Four views of a Hitec servo being built out with the Servo City Servo Blocks. These are hefty pieces of aluminum with a big beefy bearing at the output end. The hollow axle is splined at the servo end, so there's good positive contact with the servo's output. Altogether a nice piece of work.
My friends brought me this wonderful wood block stamp back from their trip to India, I've been stamping it on white muslin to make all sorts of stuff. This simple card was made using heavy white cardstock and scrapbook paper from my stash. The print was made with lino ink in an effort to use up all the random stuff in my craft stash.
These are all the pieces that go into making the Robot designed by Jess Hutch from her booklet Unusual Toys to Knit. I'm giving this fellow to my friend for xmas. Hopefully I'll have him all sewn up tonight! You can see my ghetto blocking style... it's a piece of cardboard from a box with lines dawn on it in permanent marker. I really need a blocking board! blogged
Blocks are finished! Here are a couple of Log Cabin lay outs with these blocks. I've decided on which one I'm going to use, but there are two of them that would have been OK with me.
A few more blocks for my block party quilting bee quilt. Just a couple more and then it's time to sew it together!
May 5, 2008 (126/366)
I believe proper knitters use t-pins for blocking, but I don't have any, so some of my quilting pins have to do double duty.
For her blocks in the Tag Square Bee Jo asked for pink and white blocks. Our theme in this bee is squares and this month I wanted to make squares without using squares. This block is just half square triangles. I'm really happy with how it turned out!
Our Daily Challenge 14-20 January : Water
This huge puddle just outside my gate is a temptation to some to create a wave. Sadly nobody obliged whilst I was taking pics, but one of my lodgers was a victim of an idiot who targeted her on purpose.
342 Water Street, Vancouver, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Burns Block is a five storey plus lower level stone-clad commercial building located in the historic district of Gastown, in the triangle of land where Water Street joins West Cordova Street. It has similar primary facades facing both streets, and terminates the vista to the north on Homer Street. The northern slope of the site towards the original waterfront allows a partial exposure of the lower level.
Heritage Value:
Gastown is the historic core of Vancouver, and is the city's earliest, most historic area of commercial buildings and warehouses. The Burns Block is representative of the importance of Gastown as the trans-shipment point between the terminus of the railway and Pacific shipping routes, and the consequent expansion of Vancouver into western Canada's predominant commercial centre in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The massive cubic form and notable height of this structure are a clear indication of the extent and prosperity of commercial trade during this period.
The Burns Block is significant as an important design by William Blackmore (1842-1904), one of Vancouver's earliest and most prolific architects. Blackmore's mature work in the Romanesque Revival style helped to establish the character of Gastown as a successful and progressive commercial district. The style had a powerful rhythm and unity of materials that conveyed corporate strength and security appropriate to Late Victorian sensibilities. The three Romanesque entrance arches, with carved capitals and grotesque keystone heads, reflects the more eclectic, medieval-inspired aspects of the style.
The economic boom of the pre-World War One era was reflected by the addition of two additional storeys in 1911, designed in a compatible style by architects Grant and Henderson, to accommodate expanding business needs.
Source: City of Vancouver, Heritage Planning Street Files
Character-Defining Elements:
The character-defining elements of the Burns Block include:
- location, in close proximity to the waterfront of Burrard Inlet and the Canadian Pacific Railway yard
- siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- location on a trapezoidal lot, with two street frontages and a return onto an alley, as a result of the irregular street layout of Gastown
- five-storey plus lower level flat-roofed symmetrical form, scale and massing
- masonry construction: rough-dressed sandstone used on both the Water Street and West Cordova Street facades; brick demising walls; and parged brick side facades
- Romanesque Revival style, as exemplified by the pier-and-spandrel motif, rough-dressed masonry, round-headed entrance arches, carved capitals and grotesque keystone heads
- two round-arched entries on West Cordova Street, and one larger arched entry on Water Street
- regular fenestration, employing double-hung 1-over-1 wood-sash windows on the upper floors
- large rectangular ground floor windows with monolithic sandstone sills and lintels
- elaborate sheet metal cornices with heavy brackets
- heavy timber frame internal structure
- interior features such as brick demising walls
The building was called The Buscombe Building at one time.
PORT GENTILE, Gabon (Jan. 12, 2008) Seaman Wilfredo Jirauruiz blocks a spike during a volleyball game against the Vieille Gloire (Old Glory) team a local Gabonese volleyball team. Africa Partnership Station (APS) uses sports games like this one as a way to create partnerships throughout West and Central Africa. APS is a multi-national effort to bring the latest training and techniques to maritime professionals in nine West and Central African countries, and to address the common threats of illegal fishing, smuggling and human trafficking. In addition to maritime training, APS will perform more than 20 humanitarian projects in the region. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class RJ Stratchko (Released)
Experimental adjustable drive block for the Replicator 2X extruder. The purpose of this design is to allow the operator to fine-tune the pressure applied to the filament by the idler ball bearing.
The 3D-files: www.thingiverse.com/thing:267394
Instructions: bit.ly/1eaYi3p
The 3D-printer: bit.ly/1ehTaKU
La historia comienza asÃ;
Caminando por Santiago, encuentro una bella y antigua pintura en muy mal estado...
los ´cachureos´ estaban a quinientos pesos en ese rincón de la feria.
La chica del dibujo anónimo
esperó pensativa tal vez meses o años, por algo más de color,
sólo unos cuantos trazos pintaban la silueta y la escena,
no tenÃa ni el cabello para soñar nuevas historias.
Buscó en su habitación...
Sin dejar de lado su tristeza encontró algo más adentro...
Ella ahora, escribe todo rojo en su corazón.
Block de notas / acrÃlico sobre tela / 40 x 50 cm / FelipeSmides 2009