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Wiki's latest addition to "Almost Still Life - Everything looks better with a cat next to it." (see the set Still Life With Cats
Diamond Cross blocks for the Double Dutch Sampler Quilt-Along. Tutorial on Muriëls blog: doucepoints.typepad.com/muriels_blog/2014/05/diamond-cros...
Danya and friends bellydancing to "Cell Block Tango" from "Chicago" at the 2007 Shivers N' Shimmies Hafla in Las Vegas.
To see this performance video:
This block was made with the new beautiful fabric collection Bijoux by Bari J. I have created a free pattern for the block here
Licking blocks for feeding small breeding in support to integrated farming in Mwaro, a central province of Burundi - promoted by FAO project MAW SO2 (FMM/GLO/112/MUL)
©FAO/Gustave Ntaraka
He kept taking weird things into the pool and found these two blocks of wood and was banging them together (at least it wasn't two empty halves of coconut. Name that reference!). I can't believe how grown up he looks these days especially since he's her youngest. :(
Made for the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild's Mod Bee! Made scrappy chevron or herringbone blocks, using a great tutorial.
126 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Ralph Block a three-storey masonry commercial building on West Hastings Street in Vancouver.
Heritage Value:
The value of the Ralph Block lies in its location in a cluster of three- and four-storey early commercial buildings. Together they represent the patterns of retail shopping and services around the turn of the twentieth century in Vancouver. Although the fashionable shopping area moved to the south and west in the 1920s, West Hastings Street still continued to be viable as a blue-collar retail strip. Smaller businesses flourished as they catered to the shoppers drawn to the larger outlets, as well as to the needs of the local residents.
Built in 1899 for merchant William Ralph by architects Parr and Fee, this building is an unusual local example of the use of cast iron in commercial buildings. Although not as elaborate as examples in New York, the use of brick piers enclosing cast iron mullions is notable. Ralph was a wholesaler and retailer who sold McClary stoves, ranges and furnaces, as well as Cleveland and Rambler bicycles, but he was also a bridge builder who specialized in iron structures for the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Dominion Bridge Company. The use of cast iron allowed for larger windows than the norm. This treatment, although with brick spandrels, is also found on the adjacent Henderson Block.
The building is best known as the home of the White Lunch Restaurant from 1913 to 1988. This blue-collar eatery, popular with the truckers who carried dairy products and farm produce from the Fraser Valley for distribution throughout the downtown area, survived several economic cycles but was unable to overcome the serious downturn in the late 1980s. Upstairs from the restaurant, the White Palace Rooms, provided affordable accommodation for those who could not make the return trip with their trucks.
The Ralph Block has been combined with its neighbour, the Henderson Block (122 West Hastings Street) as one commercial outlet, through the removal of a common wall.
Source: City of Vancouver Heritage Conservation Program
Character-Defining Elements:
The character-defining elements of the historic place include:
- form, scale and massing
- its presence in a grouping of three- and four-storey early commercial buildings
- its functional relationship with other buildings within the Hastings Street strip and adjoining neighbourhoods
- built right to the lot line with no setbacks
- characteristics of Edwardian commercial architecture, including cast iron mullions with enclosing masonry piers, simple cornice with corbelled ornamentation, pattern of fenestration on upper storeys, slightly bowed front, pilasters which run from the bottom of the second storey to the top of the third-storey windows, and corbelled decoration at the top of the spandrels
- building name and date below cornice
- retail presence on the main floor
- the 'White Lunch' entrance sign beneath the modern covering
Fortune Block, 232 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB. For a building history see: winnipegdowntownplaces.blogspot.ca/2012/06/232-main-stree...
1/160 sec; f/13.0; ISO 100
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f4-5.6 IS USM
Manual; Evaluative metering
Photoshop Post-Processed
The Homecoming Block Party was held at the O'Brien Field parking lot on the campus of Eastern Illinois University on October 14, 2022. (Dominic Baima)
= sea/ocean
I've always lived near some water, the Channel or the Atlantic
the wooden seagull was one of the last gifts my grandpa gave me when he was in a medical assisted living unit. he won it to a bingo game there. so precious to me, my heart still aches
these letter blocks are part of a shop update
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For her blocks in the Tag Square Bee Jo asked for blocks in pink and white fabrics.
This block is "Caned Squares" from Quilter's Cache. The crosses are paper pieced but the rest uses quick strip-piecing techniques -- this would be a great block for someone new to paper piecing.
The Homecoming Block Party was held at the O'Brien Field parking lot on the campus of Eastern Illinois University on October 14, 2022. (Dominic Baima)
Fortune Block, 232 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB. For a building history see: winnipegdowntownplaces.blogspot.ca/2012/06/232-main-stree...
Several hundred years ago, a vessel was wrecked upon the shore at Jurby, with 3 brothers, by the name of Quayle, surviving the wreckage. When they reached safety on the shore, they got down on their knees and thanked God for their survival - promising that they would settle on land as far from the sea as they could get - the top of the Sulby valley. In 1515, the manorial roll shows no Quayles in the area, yet by the following one, Quayles resided at Ballaskelly & the Creggans, and by the turn of the century, Quayles occupied Block Eary (Eairey), Ballaskella, The Creggans, Lhergy Rhennie, Sherragh Vane and Creg Mooar.
Unusually for Manx farmers, there is no record of any of these Quayles ever combining fishing with the farming, as was usual elsewhere on the island.
My daughter pointed out a child that age could not have built so tall, so perfect a tower. It must have been put together by the photog., his father.
Wilson really did grow up to be an engineer (chemical, not locomotive)
Ahhh... shouldn't have started this at night when I was tired - the middle square of yellow polka dots was sewn in facing down... grrr.... And not sure I like the green fabric
When I was a kid, my dad built a house and did the wall to the laundry room out of glass blocks. The room was off the small kitchen, and would've been exceptionally dark since the kitchen had no windows. The house was built up against a hill, and the kitchen was bordered on the side by a dirt wall, so odd as it was, you had to use electricity all day in there! Since it was a two story, a sky light wasn't possible, either. The tiny laundry room, which was between the kitchen and the garage, got what little light it could owing to those glass blocks.
Thus began my infatuation with glass blocks! In South Florida, a friend of mine had neon lights put inside a glass block wall that partitioned his living room from the hallway. That sort of thing was big down there in the 90's. I'll never forget how cool it looked! Of course, you have to like things transparent and shiny, but if you do, these things are strong, and create an effect that while retro, is really impressive.
I took a shot of this one while in Bushman Park, in the rest room. To conserve energy, the city had built the rest rooms so that the front walls were partially made of glass blocks to let the light in. You can't see through them, and they let tons of light in!
I flew out to Block Island with a friend of mine last October just for the afternoon. During the cab ride back to the airport we stopped and took a couple pics. including this one from Charlestown Beach.
154 East 7th Avenue, Vancouver, BC.
Heritage Value: The Williams Block is located near the historic heart of Mount Pleasant's commercial district at Main and Kingsway and was one of the first apartment buildings constructed. Constructed in 1910 by Fred Williams, this building was described in the building permit register as a "brick veneer apartment house" and cost $6500. It was designed in the Edwardian Builder style and constitutes a typical wood-frame combined commercial store and apartment building from the period. Its design incorporates front and side bay windows and covered rear porches with intact period decorative brackets. The bay windows are detailed with brackets, trim and sheet metal bases. It was owned and occupied by the Williams family until 1949 and from 1936-1943 the store front housed a branch office of Canadian Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.). Heritage staff and the Vancouver Heritage Commission both recommend the building be added to the Heritage Register in the B category based on the standard evaluation criteria.