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3rd sampler for my stitchy stitchy club.The white stag is a nod for all saints eve at the end of the month.
I'm still waiting for the arrival of my Lomo LC-A.. For now, I got myself an Action Sampler. It's pretty awesome for $25. Will have some pictures up soon.
2013 Monthly Woodland Sampler by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery
trying to catch up since I only bought the kit early March... and the spring sampler is starting soon!
Talk about ambitious. This was the first quilt I ever made - huge and each block different. I must confess that I admitted defeat and took it to somebody with a longarm quilter for the quilting part of it - it was just so large I couldn't face it.
A tutorial for a modern bargello block, as part of the Something New Sampler series. Blogged here: thecutelifesmiles.blogspot.com/2013/01/something-new-samp...
I made this quilt for my oldest son. I could not get the borders completely in the photo. The center block is paper pieced. The rest of the blocks are machine pieced. I mis-calculated for the bottom left block and had to add an inner border. It is hand quilted with quilted hand-written words in the border. It says, "I never met a frog I didn't like." And there is also a quilted frog chasing a fly in the border.
Wednesday 23 April 2014: Millennium Sampler #7
This is the 7th section of the Millennium Sampler that I finished stitching on 1st January 2000. It depicts Sir Isaac Newton discovering gravity and the building of St Paul's Cathedral by Sir Christopher Wren.
Isaac Newton was supposedly sitting under an apple tree when he observed an apple fall to the ground. It started him thinking about how the apple, which had no acceleration while it was attached to the tree, could suddenly gain acceleration and fall to the ground. And so he developed The Universal Law of Gravitation.
Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, took 35 years to complete. It is well loved by Londoners and visitors alike. During the Blitz of the Second World War incendiary bombs destroyed much of London but fire wardens and volunteers stood defiant and refused to let St Paul's be destroyed. They worked tirelessly to put out every little fire that started on the dome and managed to prevent it from going the way of many of London's other buildings
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James' mom goes a little crazy when it comes to Christmas cookies, and made seven different kinds this year. She sends us a boxful the day after Christmas each year, each kind wrapped up together in aluminum foil, with LOTS of scotch tape to keep it secured.
I stuck them in the freezer while we were eating through our own cookies and now we've been enjoying these each night.
(L-R) Genesee Cream Ale, Monk's Ale, Pin Stripe Ale, Dogfish Head IPA, Ranger IPA, Stash IPA
Jen drank the Cream Ale... and I've got the Range left... but my favorite of the ones I drank was the Pin Stripe Red Ale.
Jodie got me this sampler. She rocks.
A tutorial for a modern bargello block, as part of the Something New Sampler series. Blogged here: thecutelifesmiles.blogspot.com/2013/01/something-new-samp...
I finished the last of my Flunchtime Florals blocks, but decided to put it aside to not get too ahead of Schnookie who's working on the same pattern. Instead, I picked up something I was motoring on around Christmastime -- a self-designed big block sampler quilt made from all Anna Maria Horner prints. I was thinking a big, big block sampler would be a fun project for our friend who's very new to quilting, so this is the shop sample, as it were, to encourage her to give it a go. The fabrics are all from the Anna Maria Horner fat quarter of the month club. I laid these pieces all out and then Hegle hopped up and spread out. She hasn't showed any interest in sitting on my footstool in months but as soon as it would inconvenience me terribly, it was the only place in the house she wanted to be.
-- Pk.
6 of 7 samplers at the Helm Brasseur Gourmand; (left to right) Stout, American Pale Ale, Alt, Cream Ale, Kölsh & Blanche de Blé. 273 Bernard St. W.
Montréal, Quebec. 3/26/08
The stem stitch outlining is pretty terrible -- planning on whipping around it when I'm done to try to make it look better.
Blogged: colorize.daisyw.net/2013/09/23/the-sound-of-one-hand-craf...
One of my two current TAST samplers, using the garden path sampler template from &Stitches. So far:
Week 7: detached chain stitch
Week 8: chain stitch (still working on the border)
Week 11: whipped wheel (ribbed web)
From Left to Right, House in the woods sampler: started 2007. Counting Crows: Started 2008. I can't even remember when I started that rose thing. It's supposed to be a pin cushions.
Old picture took with my lomo action sampler few years ago, with an expired film.
This is Chili, my first fish, now buried in my countryside garden.
We went to the Brauhaus Joh Albrecth restaurant Wednesday evening after we arrived in town. I've been hearing about schweinshaxe (Pork Knuckle) for a couple of weeks, so I decided to give it a try, but I opted for the sampler which was supposed to only half a Pork Knuckle. This is what I got, needless to say I didn't finish much. ;) And the Pork Knuckle was "interesting".
Raw chicken 4 ways: sliced gizzard, sliced liver, white meat tartar (lightly seared), breast meat.
The chicken used is called Yamato Nikudori, specially bred in Nara for taste and texture, raised at subcontracted farmhouses in the Yagyu countryside, personally selected by the head chef in the morning and slaughtered at 130-140 days old.
The flavor of raw chicken is very mild. It has the tender and smooth texture of a premium slice of yellowtail sashimi, without any fattiness or fishiness. Perfect with a little bit of coarsly ground wasabi and soy sauce...