The self-guided audio tour was awesome! It was amazing the number of stories--murder, failed escapes, successful escapes, riots--that have happened in this building!

May 29-31, 2004

Andy Cole writes (and supplies pictures):

"The volunteers listed below came out over the Memorial Day holiday to

put in another section of Belgian Block at 43/Baltimore. I've also included some pictures of their efforts. Please go by and take a look, we're pretty proud of our handiwork (and pretty tired from lifting and moving the blocks).

"I'd especially like to thank Citizen's Bank, who generously funded this work day, and to Roger Harman and Abbraccio for the excellent breakfast and lunch for the volunteers. Also, thanks to the folks at Woodland Supply for dry sand and to the Green Line for some emergency coffee.

"As usual I really need to thank my brain trust, Mark Jenson, Joe Shapiro, and John Fenton of UCD. Without the tools, knowledge and enthusiasm of these three, this project wouldn't be possible.

"I'd also like the think the Farmer's Market folks who allowed us to move them around, especially Donna Pitz of the Farmer's Market Trust and Lois Fahnestock, who had to move her tables to allow us to move the dirt and blocks around.

"Volunteers: Patty Pickup, Darnell Walker, Becca Zinn, Brad Zinn, Joe Shapiro, Anne Heidel, Jon M. Sweigart, Cindy Roberts, Janet Lewis, Lew Mellman, Emily Jenson, Mark Jenson, John Fenton and crew from UCD, Amanda Benner, Mike Hardy, Steve McCoubrey.

"Farmer's Market Folks: Donna Pitz, Lois Fahnestock

"If you know any of these folks, please give them a pat on the back and please feel free to join us for our next Belgian Block installation day, tentatively scheduled for Saturday, July 17, 2004 (we can only do about fifteen feet at a time so this may take a while to complete)."

October blocks for do. Good Stitches - Bliss group.

olive oil soap blocks drying

tripoli, khan ez-zeit

Hey Paul

A block of soviet blockhouses in the Latvian town of Liepaja.

Offset to one side this Block in Cinder is quite elegant and simple. The legs have been cut to allow for a tv over top. With a mantel depth of 6" this provides plenty of protection from heat of the fireplace.

Carter Hazen, 12 years-old throws a softball in hopes of dunking 11 year-old Marissa Perry Saturday June 13, 2009 at the Kirby block party in Gastonia.

Another Farmer's Wife 1930s paper-pieced block (no. 34) and my favourite of the week (and the year so far!) Find out more about this block at the Patchsmith.

Block Island Sunset; Rhode Island

For her block in A Quilting Journey Round Robin Bee Cindy's inspiration block was a tradtional block with some appliqué featuring soft colours.

This block is "Rose Trellis" from "Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 1." I used Strawberry Fields by Fig Tree Fabrics for Moda. I have never used Fig Tree fabrics before and I had thought that they weren't my style (not modern enough.) However, the colours and prints are so pretty that I think I will have to make a quilt out of them some day. I love the vintage scrappiness of this block.

patchheaven requested blocks in blue, orange, and grey.

LinoCut block of Alice. Lots of work, but I think the results are good for my first one!

Farmer's Wife 1930s block no. 97. Paper-pieced.

You can find all my Farmer's Wife 1930s quilt blocks over at the Patchsmith's blog.

For have I

Built a castle

Upon believing

Before I doubt

I have suffered

But my friends say

I have learned from it

And for have I

Believed the snow could

Not be freezing

Upon the ground

Now my ass

Is blue and black but

I am sound

And for have I

Belonged to no one

More than fleetingly and in doubt

I have had what

Now is gone but

Still I've known them

And for have I

I have absolved my-

Self of demons

I must confess

Having known them

Growing old then

I will rehehehest

But where are the songs

For me to sing along

When I am hoping

Someone writes one

For me

And sings me something sweetly

For I promise to sing along

And then we'll both know nothing's wrong

Singing na nana na

For have I

Delivered comfort

To the aching

And for the tired

With these words

Of comic wisdom

I have triahahaid

So where are the songs

For me to sing along

When I am hoping

Someone writes one

For me

And sings me something sweetly

For I promise to sing along

And then we'll both know nothing's wrong

Singing na

Nana na

Dandy Warhols/I am Sound

Photo by Dan Tucker

BLOCK

A show by NoFit State Circus and Motionhouse.

NoFit State Circus and Motionhouse bring together their unique styles in BLOCK - an exciting new collaboration. Twenty oversized blocks are deconstructed and reformed into an infinite variety of shapes for the performers to play on, move with and explore. BLOCK is about life in the city; its contradictions and challenges. What happens when dance and circus collide? When they converge, rub against each other, blend into one another?

Commissioned by Without Walls, Stockton International Riverside Festival, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Out There International Festival of Circus & Street Arts. Co-production Archaos, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque Méditerranée and Le CITRON JAUNE, Centre National des Arts de la Rue.

Supported by Arts Council England, Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru/ Arts Coucil Wales, Llywodraeth Cymru/ Welsh Government, and the Big Lottery.

J F K Board Room in Block Arcade - #INTERIOR - john whitechurch

Trying for a better picture of the block itself see www.flickr.com/photos/etchingsplus/5795642679/ for the story

I'm thinking all these hourglass blocks I've been making are going to end up as a lap quilt.

H&R Block

1641 Hilltop West Shopping Center, Hilltop West Shopping Center, Virginia Beach, VA

This was previously part of a Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre, which opened in spring 1983 and closed in 1984.

Tall Red Crepe myrtle infront of a house on Cedar Ave in Allenhurst,New Jersey

16.5inches square

Is it any wonder that a geometer loves quilt blocks? These blocks were all pieced by hand and measure 12 inches square plus a seam allowance.

Preblock: 37x14"

Postblock: 49x22" and could have gone bigger.

Pretty photos when it's done drying.. and the light is ok. So like, in June ;)

August block for the Unscripted Bee

blogged!

Hardcore Jenga

I decided to do all of the black first and then I can fill in with the colors. On the blacks, I used prints of black with different amounts of gray in them and graded them with the light toward the bottom/center of the block. That doesn't show very much in the picture, unless you enlarge the picture, but I think it will give depth to the piece.

Basalite concrete blocks were developed and distributed as lightweight concrete masonry units. The blocks were produced using expanded shale aggregate. Many different shapes were designed to meet various construction challenges.

These blocks were used a great deal in construction during the 1950s through the 1970s. Marketed advantages of using Basalite blocks included durability, sound control, low cost, low maintenance, relative light weight, ease of installation, and uniform size and density.

Gustaf C. Blomberg, a builder and developer in Sacramento, was a pioneer in the development of concrete masonry construction. He worked for the Basalt Rock Co. in Napa in the mid-1930s and helped develop Basalite.

According to his obituary, Mr. Blomberg "... moved to Sacramento in 1939 and was a building contractor, constructing about 25 homes in the Sierra View Terrace development on 57th Street. He was in the trucking business during World War II and then in sales for the Basalt company in the Sacramento Valley after the war.

Mr. Blomberg was involved with the development of Tallac Village along 14th Avenue to meet the demand for postwar housing. In 1950, he and his family established the Blomberg Home and Garden Center on Freeport Boulevard, which later evolved into the Lanai Shopping Center. The family business is now known as Blomberg Window Systems."

Wild Olive provided the free EPP pattern for this cross. I've made a few more since this one and have discovered that I LOVE EPP.

Chevron Blocks for Bam Bom. Working on a tutorial for this block for BAM BOM. If anyone wants to test the instructions for me, I would love to have the input.

Got this on Block Island Rhode Island

On week cruise with Sea Scout Ship 228 on the Sea Dart II

Like many artist, I experience much of my life very visually. This is particularly true of music. I am a huge fan of Celtic/Folk music and a massive fan of the amazing Kate Rusby. One of my favorite Rusby songs is "Bring Me A Boat" and I have always seen, in my mind, this image of a woman standing on a dock looking out into the distance across the water. This image by no means captures the sadness of Rusby's lyrics or performance - but I had to try - and will make other attempts.