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next I set abut a basic layout for the control cabinet. I decided on the best locations for all of my components and then marked off where I would need to cut the various openings to mount of those components.
I've been very inspired by all of the quilty goodness in my flickr photostream recently.
It's motivated me to finish the quilt that I pieced some 18 months ago.
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I've also been thinking about a new sewing machine. The one shown here is a Singer 301 -- circa 1958. I love it, but it's very basic. Does straight lines, and that's it. Doesn't even have a zigzag stitch!
For a while now, I've been considering adding a second machine to my life. I'd like something that I can quilt with, and obviously, something with a zig-zag stitch. Quality is important to me -- I'd rather pay a little more, or get fewer features, but have a solid and well-built machine.
But, since I haven't used a modern machine in years, I'm not sure what else I want it to do.
Friends who sew and quilt -- what features do you use? What makes/models do you have? What do you like/dislike about your machines?
I've come to really like the rowing machine at the gym. It reminds me of being on playground equipment when I was a kid. Whee! And it works so many muscles at the same time too. Legs, hips, belly, arms. Yet it's fun. I was trying to do more than 7 minutes which is what I did last time and managed to do a full 10 minutes which really made me pleased with myself for the effort.
Remember that empty space I told you about at the Confederation Mall that was finally being filled? As it turns out, TD Canada Trust's bank machines, known as a Green Machine, is being moved to the empty space.
Ingenuity lifted from Hero's original idea in 215BC for a holy water dispensing machine. Only noticed if it stops working.
The appearances look a little bit different from our countries. Ours have the real object so that we can see them.
Just for the curious, this is what it looks inside one of those Washington State Ferries (WSF) coffee vending machines. Cool eh?
Otherwise, here is a photo of my 2018-11-29 WSF Anacortes-Sidney Trip. You can see more photos - including the other cell phone photo of inside the machine and higher quality ones of the trip - up at flic.kr/s/aHsmJFLqiE as able.
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
"ERECTED TO /COMMEMORATE/ THE GLORIOUS/ HEROES/ OF THE MACHINE GUN/ CORPS/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR"
"THE MACHINE GUN CORPS./ OF WHICH HIS MAJESTY KING/ GEORGE V WAS COLONEL-IN-/ CHIEF WAS FORMED BY THE WARRANT DATED THE 14TH DAY/ OF OCTOBER 1915./ THE CORPS SERVED IN/ FRANCE, FLANDERS, RUSSIA, ITALY,/ EGYPT, PALESTINE, MESOPOTAMIA,/ SALONICA. INDIA. AFGANISTAN/ AND EAST AFRICA./ THE LAST UNIT OF THE CORPS/ TO BE DISBANDED WAS THE/ DEPOT AT SHORNCLIFFE ON THE/ 15TH DAY OF JULY 1922. THE/ TOTAL NUMBER WHO SERVED IN/ THE CORPS WAS SOME 11,500/ OFFICERS AND 159,000 OTHER/ RANKS OF WHOM 1,120 OFFICERS/ AND 1,671 OTHER RANKS WERE/ KILLED AND 2881 OFFICERS AND /45377 OTHER RANKS WERE WOUNDED, MISSING OR PRISONERS/ OF WAR"
"While most of London’s World War I memorials feature sculptures depicting soldiers or weaponry, the controversial Machine Gun Corps Memorial at Hyde Park Corner takes as its centrepiece a more classical theme.
Designed by Francis Derwent Wood (known for his role in making masks for soldiers disfigured during the war), the larger than life-sized sculpture on top of this memorial is a nude statue of the Biblical character, David, who stands holding a giant sword – that of Goliath whose head he cut off. The Biblical theme is also found in an accompanying inscription from the Bible: 1 Samuel 18: 7 – “Saul hath slain his thousands but David his tens of thousands”.
To either side of the bronze figure – which has led to the memorial also being known as The Boy David – are two real bronzed Vickers guns wrapped in laurels while the Italian marble plinth carries a dedicated to the almost 14,000 of the corps who died between the raising of the corps in 1915 and its disbanding in 1922. The reverse of the memorial details the corps’ history, recording its service in “France, Flanders, Russia, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Salonica, India, Afghanistan and East Africa”.
The Grade II* listed monument, which was much criticised thanks to the juxtaposition of the naked figure and machine guns, was unveiled by the Duke of Connaught in 1925. Originally located on a traffic island to the south of the Royal Artillery Memorial it was dismantled in 1945 when roadworks were carried out and it wasn’t until 1963 that it was reassembled on its current site." exploring-london.com/category/specials/10-of-londons-worl...