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Summer Sampler Series by Fresh Lemons, Freshly Pieced, & Swim Bike Quilt
Tutorials & History on 12 Traditional Blocks for a Modern Sampler. We'd love to have you join us, starting July 11 at www.swimbikequilt.com
Having lunch @ "The Coconut Terrace" of the Palau Pacific Resort, before hitting the beach.
A sampler platter of Taro Soup, Taro Croquet, Ukaeb, Fillet Reef Fish, Coconut Rice, Tapioca, Palauan Nuts and Fruits.
Treated myself (and my mate) to lunch and after a few days of Filipino cuisine, it was a simple straight forward decision to go Palauan.
A sampler platter is always a good choice to start the culinary journey.
I have continued to stitch on a piece of waxed brown paper and I have discovered that hand stitch alters the surface of the paper, far more than machine stitch. I have rubbed Treasure Wax on to the central part of the hand stitching.
Mixed media
Made the fourth block for my sampler to be.
I'm playing with certain text prints as I do these, and I'm tempted to make this too an ongoing theme in the blocks, but I never caught onto the text print thing and collected them the way some folks did. And really, I'd just want the text fabrics that are white print on black background, or black print on white background.
da vicino è molto minuzioso:copia di quello che si trova a Parigi nella casa di Monet, ricamato da sua moglie.
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)
Photographer Unknown, "Charlie H. Sampler", Photograph, Year Unknown, Sampler Family Collection, Stone Mtn. Ga.
Born in 1903, Charlie H. Sampler was my great grandfather. He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII in the Construction Battallion, or the "SeaBees". He passed away in 1974.
The Seabees of the United States Navy were born in the dark days following Pearl Harbor when the task of building victory from defeat seemed almost insurmountable. The Seabees were created in answer to a crucial demand for builders who could fight.
Using sailors to build shore-based facilities; however, was not a new idea. Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans did it. In more recent times, from the earliest days of the United States Navy, sailors who were handy with tools occasionally did minor construction chores at land bases.
After the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States entry into the war, the use of civilian labor in war zones became impractical. Under international law civilians were not permitted to resist enemy military attack. Resistance meant summary execution as guerrillas.
The need for a militarized Naval Construction Force to build advance bases in the war zone was self-evident. Therefore, Rear Admiral Ben Moreell determined to activate, organize, and man Navy construction units. On 28 December 1941, he requested specific authority to carry out this decision, and on 5 January 1942, he gained authority from the Bureau of Navigation to recruit men from the construction trades for assignment to a Naval Construction Regiment composed of three Naval Construction Battalions. This is the actual beginning of the renowned Seabees, who obtained their designation from the initial letters of Construction Battalion. Admiral Moreell personally furnished them with their official motto: Construimus, Batuimus -- "We Build, We Fight."
Although the Seabees began with the formation of regular construction battalions only, the Bureau of Yards and Docks soon realized the need for special-purpose units. While the battalion itself was versatile enough to handle almost any project, it would have been a wasteful use of men to assign a full battalion to a project that could be done equally well by a smaller group of specialists.
The first departure from the standard battalion was the special construction battalion, or as it was commonly known, the Seabee Special. These special battalions were composed of stevedores and longshoremen who were badly needed to break a bottleneck in the unloading of ships in combat zones. Their officers, drawn largely from the Merchant Marine and personnel of stevedoring companies, were commissioned in the Civil Engineer Corps. The enlisted men were trained practically from scratch, and the efficiency of their training was demonstrated by the fact that cargo handling in combat zones compared favorably to that in the most efficient ports in the United States.
Another smaller, specialized unit within the Seabee organization was the construction battalion maintenance unit, which was about one-quarter the size of a regular construction battalion. It was organized to take over the maintenance of a base after a regular battalion had completed construction and moved on to its next assignment.
Still another specialized Seabee unit was the construction battalion detachment, ranging in size from 6 to 600 men, depending on the specialized nature of its function. These detachments did everything from operating tire-repair shops to dredges. A principal use for them, however, was the handling, assembling, launching, and placing of pontoon causeways.
Additional specialized units were the motor trucking battalions, the pontoon assembly detachments that manufactured pontoons in forward areas, and petroleum detachments comprised of experts in the installation of pipelines and petroleum facilities.
In the Second World War, the Seabees were organized into 151 regular construction battalions, 39 special construction battalions, 164 construction battalion detachments, 136 construction battalion maintenance units, 5 pontoon assembly detachments, 54 regiments, 12 brigades, and under various designations, 5 naval construction forces.
History Prepared by Dr. Vincent A. Transano, Command Historian of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 1997. Posted on www.history.navy.mil
Sampler Sr., Donald L. E-mail Correspondence.2008.
my progress on the Storytime Sampler (by the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery) - with a few modifications (mostly in colour, plus the addition of some backstitching and french knots)
Old picture took with my lomo action sampler few years ago, with an expired film.
Ric with his camera.
Dubuque, Iowa's Aural Resuscitation Unit performed live on What's This Called? on Saturday, June 19th, 2010.
For the next few weeks you may listen to or download the program HERE!
A wine shop which has a machine letting you sample many of the wines in small quantities.
Owner: (website).
The Air Sampling equipment is located on the bow of the ship, constructed of aluminum booms with samplers attached at the end. The samplers are set up to point into the wind for several hours, so as to collect air upwind of exhaust stacks. This equipment is used to filter particles and gasses from the air, which are analyzed for atmospheric contaminants. Monitoring these samples enables scientists to determine the quantity of contaminants that enter the lake from the atmosphere.
Photo courtesy of US EPA
Wednesday 2 April 2014: Millennium Sampler #4
This is the next section of the Millennium Sampler I finished on 1st January 2000. This commemorates the first landing on the Moon and the works of William Shakespeare. I remember staying up late to watch the very grainy, black and white images of the Moon landing and the first moments that Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface. My Granddad insisted, till the day he died, that it never really happened! He was born in 1903, so perhaps it all seemed like wizardry to him! The masks represent Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies which most of us probably had to learn about at school. I didn't enjoy just reading them, but I did enjoy acting them out and seeing them performed in the theatre.