QOD

"I like my oysters fried,that way I know they've died."   Roy Blount, Jr.

Oh, that feels sooooo goooood!

The Dylanator

I think he was scratching that itch for almost ten minutes on this very fine Spring morning!  He was doing a bicycle with his hind legs which was really very amusing.

Found.

I looked everywhere for the vinegar yesterday, darn sure I remembered buying a big jug of it.  Could not find it anywhere, not still in the car and not, as I thought might be a possibility, sitting in the flower garden, next to the car.

I do vinegar treatments to the shower curtain and the coffee maker at the beginning of each month and I had only a token amount left in the jug for the February treatment so I really wanted to get it done.  Now.  Very aggravating to be so thwarted when I was so prepared for action.

When I flung open the front door today to let in some springlike fresh air, there it was.  I seldom use the front door but I must have brought things in that way when the ice slick was by the back gate.

Let the treatments begin!

Polysyllabic: adjective

1: having more than one and usually more than three syllables

2:  characterized by words of many syllables

I prefer to think of it as a sign of the texting mentality rather than sheer lip laziness but for a long time I let this syllable severing annoy me.  It sounds so uneducated to my ear.  Now I am able to just shrug it off, shake my head and re-affirm my self-commitment not to go down that slope.

I had started a list of specifics some time ago and then didn’t care anymore.  This morning when I read paci-clip, I remembered these:  

Cardi = cardigan

Catty = catalog

Panto = pantograph

Siggy = signature (quilt)

You can see that many arts/crafts are included and I suppose even painters, beaders and sculptures might have some words to add.  Is this practice something that would show up in a cultural anthropology book?

“Paci” was referring to pacifier.  Maybe you knew that.

Stash Report Week #10

Added this week           2.75
Used this week             1.33
Added year to date     14.38
Used year to date        11.04
Net year to date            3.34 YARDS

Clearance sale at work and I did not get my February UFO finished, close but not finished.  I did get the little quilt done though but it really is little and I am including the batting in the yardage because it was taking up space here too.

First (personal) Finish for 2012!!

Buggy Barn Churn Dash

From the Buggy Barn Certifiably Crazy book.  Pieced in Kona solids and quilted with invisible thread on top and Star Merc in the bobbin.   The needle threader on my Bernina did not care for the invisible thread but since it has a certain rigidity it was not hard to thread the machine by hand.  Harder to thread a hand needle when I was burying thread ends after the quilting was finished.  I machine quilted in a quarter inch echo pattern.

This will hang in my sewing room after it is finished hanging in the store.  It's the perfect size, 23"x32" to hang above the cutting counter.

Yay!

edited:  oops, I forgot to mention that the name of this quilt is "You can't hurt your eyes by looking on the bright side." which was a quote I embroidered years ago and I have no idea where the thought came from.  Of course, quilts don't have to be named but this surely seems to fit!

I needed a large envelope...

to forward some mail to my neighbor.  I knew I had some in the desk.  An unopened package possibly from the 70's.  I mean, can you read it?  Four envelopes for 29 cents and the little white sticker shows that they were discounted to 27 cents.

I know, a lot of head shaking going on out there.