Yarnivorous

G'day all! I started quilting because of Dana over at  Old Red Barn Co back in 2009.  I've been participating in most of the quiltalongs we've done through her Flickr group, oldredbarnco quiltalong .  This has to be the quickest project ever. The challenge was to find a colour palette on one of the many colour palette websites and design a quilt/wall hanging/lap quilt/mugrug/something quilty from it.  The challenge was announced around 24th of September and we had until today, Halloween, to finish it.  OK, it was not really a smack down but I just like the word.  Technically it is a quilt challenge throwdown! I've been meaning to play along but I couldn't find a palette that reflected what I wanted to do.  I really wanted to use colours like the ones in this picture: By Ballard Locks I wanted to make something that was all fally/autumnal, though I was also thinking about having bright autumn leaves on wet concrete (something I am seeing a ...

G'day all! This is something I've been thinking about for a while. This pic from Crazy Aunt Purl reminded me of it. I live in a car-centric place. Mebbe only Los Angeles is more car-centric than the San Francisco Bay area. Even with the Caltrain and the BART and the MUNI and all the various systems that run around the place, including the light rail that we catch quite a lot (particularly DH since it is a five minute walk to his work from the station). We don't have a car. We only hire a car when we want to go travelling to look around this place or when we need to go pick something up that is much too big for the bike (eg when we brought home the six foot tall shelving). You might be surprised by how much stuff I have brought home on my bike, both with and without the bike trailer. Recently I brought home the new vacuum cleaner in the bike trailer: (That is a picture of the Great White Hunter with her prey. The GWH must remember not to stick her chest out so much lest ...