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Block 37 Shops is such a strange place...still half-empty, but the businesses that are open (especially the places to eat) are quite nice. I got another chance to show it to an out-of-state Flickr friend for the first time.
Here's my crude, DIY soil blocker. It's just a 1.5" PVC pipe about 2.5" long, with a few grooves filed into the bottom edge. The packer is made from a little circle of plywood screwed onto the old broomhandle with a long woodscrew and a nut-spacer, and the top "handle" is made from a old scrap of oak pallet wood.
Here's the technique (I'll take more pictures next time)
1. fill the tube up with soil, but don't pack it in. Use soil that's very damp, but NOT sopping wet
2. Put the tube over an old cookie tray, or on a hard work surface
3. Push down hard on the plunger to drive out most of the water, compacting the soil
4. Lift the whole deal off the table, and gently push the block through the tube to release it
5. If it's still stuck to the end of the plunger, disengage it gently now
6. Notice that he scrw and nut have left a nice depression into the soil block, perfect for planting the seed!
The advantages of this methed are:
1. At planting, just stick the whole thing in the ground, no root damage and no transplanting shock
2. No dealing with the plastic pots, or undegraded peat-pots in the garden
3. Can be watered for a capillary mat (see my other pics on that setup)
4. Makes transplanting easier, just make some bigger blocks with a 1.5" diameter depression first.
5. The plants don't get pot bound, since the roots wil naturally not grow into the air on the edges
Trying to catch up, here are my first 9 blocks. I will be making blocks until I feel I have enough and then will put it together.
I am not sure about my color combination's on this one but I love each block individually.
i have put leaves on this block and added a cute antique button.the colour is not true .i had camera problems. still got them!! there is another in my photostream much better on the colour but this one had the leaves added. blogged susan-sweethomeanawhata.blogspot.com/
The not unattractive turnstile block at New Victoria Park, home of Scottish Junior FA East Region club Newtongrange Star. 'Nitten' opened this functional modern stadium in 1994 having sold Victoria Park, their base since 1924, to a housing developer.
It seems like it's been a few lifetimes since I cast on, but I finally blocked the pieces today. Tonight I'll start sewing the sleeve seams and then I'll work the collar. I should (hopefully!) be done in another two weeks or so.
Somehow I doubt it will be cold enough to wear the sweater by the time I'm done :(
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Our Lady of Pompeii Shrine viewed through a glass block
This is a lovely block, and the colours you sent for me to work with are really beautiful. Thank you.
now, number two....
First block in a Whimsy layer cake Union Jack quilt, combining a fabric with an older feel with a modern quilt design. lilysquilts.blogspot.com/