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trying to get the postage stamp quilt finished!! i might be buried under this pile, somewhere . . . cross-eyed from all the patience + determination it took to piece these! mustfinishmustfinishmustfinish!
The start of my new boys quilt. Blog and pattern links here wombatquilts.com/2013/01/09/gretchen-blocks-work-in-progr...
Every now and again, I love playing around with traditional patterns. Tumbling blocks are just timeless-- and the insertion of random striped blocks adds some spunk to this time honored pattern.
Eastern State Penitentiary
Philadelphia, PA
May 26th, 2014
One of the tops views of Cell Block Seven that is often photographed. I lucked out and got there early enough before anyone else was in the shot
Some info from the E.S.P. website:
"Most eighteenth century prisons were simply large holding pens. Groups of adults and children, men and women, and petty thieves and murderers, sorted out their own affairs behind locked doors. Physical punishment and mutilation were common, and abuse of the prisoners by the guards and overseers was assumed.
In 1787, a group of well-known and powerful Philadelphians convened in the home of Benjamin Franklin. The members of The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons expressed growing concern with the conditions in American and European prisons. Dr. Benjamin Rush spoke on the Society's goal, to see the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania set the international standard in prison design. He proposed a radical idea: to build a true penitentiary, a prison designed to create genuine regret and penitence in the criminal's heart. The concept grew from Enlightenment thinking, but no government had successfully carried out such a program.
It took the Society more than thirty years to convince the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to build the kind of prison it suggested: a revolutionary new building on farmland outside Philadelphia."
For More info: www.easternstate.org/learn/research-library/history
Bee blocks for the do. good stitches Love circle! I had these done about a week ago, but just now got a photo of it! It's been a busy week :) I loved making these, and I'm hoping to make more!
The big house has been demolished and flats have been built on the site but the stable block and the grounds remain. The grounds are now a park administered by the local council.
i started this blanket in april 09 and finished it last night.
it contains 108 squares from 200 crochet blocks by jan eaton. some of the squares i used repeatedly, and some i only used a few times. my method was to create nine squares at a time using three different patterns. i crocheted each pattern three times, using alternating variations of the three yarn colors. (does this make sense to anyone besides me?) the squares were then sewn together using a single crochet on the reverse side. i made sure to never put a square next to another one with the same color border.
i absolutely love this blanket to death. it is definitely my most favorite crochet work.
details on ravelry
1. Joy Circle May House Block, 2. House Block Bee block by Four Monkeys Quilts, 3. little house block, 4. Block #2 made for BOAF member Nanotchka..., 5. Clearance Isle Wonky House, 6. Calendar of Houses May block, 7. First Wednesday Bee Tiny House Block January, 8. Around the Block - Helen's House, 9. April Calendar of Houses, 10. House Block for Joy Circle, 11. DQS Block 3/6, 12. House block for Dallas, 13. Wonky House Quilt Block swap, 14. www.flickr.com/photos/blueelephantstitches/5964553801/, 15. House blocks, 16. House block
So I totally want to make some house quilt blocks to make a quilt for my kids. Anyone wanna swap or round robin/bee something? Lol. I've never made one before and looking at all the cute houses makes me want one for their room!
A view of the iconic Southeast Lighthouse from the Mohegan Bluffs overlook on Block Island, Rhode Island.
some block printed cherry blossoms pasted on a stamped paper, i made years ago. all together mounted on an old canvas..
I owe a big thank you to 'filminthefridge' for posting a fantastic string quilt, and then posting a fabulous tutorial on her blog- she is my quilt idol, seriously the girl makes some killer quilts :)
www.filminthefridge.com/2009/04/27/a-string-quilt-block-t...
www.flickr.com/photos/27953607@N05/3479525883/
these are my first 4- and I am only using my scraps for this quilt!!!
My block for Scrappy? Sew Bee It!
Tutorial and template here:
tickleandhide.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/apple-leaf-block-te...
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Hidden away in a secret location in the Bighorn Mountains is a very unusual and intriguing rock. The trees are just tall enough that it can’t be seen from below. No trails exist here, aside from those made by the many elk and moose in the area. A near perfect cube 60 feet high sits at the bottom of a rockpile. Each side is a different color. Made of dolomite limestone, the edges are almost impossibly straight, like it was sculpted by a giant. Whoever said there are no right angles in nature got it wrong. Evidently the massive block broke off from the cliff face hundreds of feet above. Deep cracks and crevices are common up top. I had to step carefully to avoid falling into them. It would have been an awesome sight to see this fall and roll down the slope. But exactly how the geometry formed and why the block didn’t break apart remains a mystery.
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these blocks were my Christmas present from Elsie and Roxy. I thought they would be much easier than stones to balance and in one way they are because they have flat surfaces (although some of the planes are very small) but because they are manmade and not organic they don't seem to settle quite in the way stones do. As I was taking this photo I saw that the tenth block was still on the floor from the first tumble! They require mindfulness like stones, but when they fall they don't shock in the way the larger stones do, and also they don't have the potential to break a toe!