As I said yesterday, I spent Sunday making the Peacock blocks. In between I made donation blocks. I had taken 3 kits from the BAMQG meeting on Saturday so I made those up first. Those blocks are the 2 on the right and the one on the top. After I was done with those, I made up a few more from my own fabric. I sewed them as leaders and enders in between the parts of the Peacock hexagons. I used them to keep track of the various parts of the blocks. They are all the same colors, so it is easy to mix of pieces. And the bonus was all the donations blocks I finished as well.
This prompt is related to Prompt #184. They are similar, but a little different.
dessert recipes
Definition: “Dessert (/d??z??rt/) is a course that concludes a main meal. The course usually consists of sweet foods and beverages, such as dessert wine or liqueurs, but may include coffee, cheeses, nuts, or other savory items. In some parts of the world, such as much of central and western Africa, there is no tradition of a dessert course to conclude a meal.
“Dessert” is a song by American singer and producer Dawin. It was released in the United States on March 17, 2015.
cookies
Sound Dessert is a music blog featuring music reviews, music interviews, indie rock playlists and more.
ice cream
Dessert Wars Miami is the premiere dessert competition in South Florida. With over 20 participants, you have a lot of decisions to make and a wide array of desserts
cheesecake
Dessert delivery from GrubHub (Brilliant!)
sweet soups
dessert wines
jellied desserts
dessert glasses
Dessert Lab
free listening on SoundCloud
This is Spot, a dessert bar like no other, home to a whole new world of delicious flavors and tastes. At Spot, Dessert Bar, traditional confections are re-imagined
Fast food desserts
Dessert Fox elegantly provides custom cake creations in the Rocklin/Roseville area.
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I might have an animal thing going on. We’ll see what next week brings.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Definition: “A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamilyErinaceinae, in the orderEulipotyphla. There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in New Zealand by introduction. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia, and no living species native to the Americas (the extinct genus Amphechinus was once present in North America). Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews (family Soricidae), with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link, and have changed little over the last 15 million years.[2] Like many of the first mammals, they have adapted to a nocturnal way of life.[3] Hedgehogs’ spiny protection resembles that of the unrelated rodent porcupines and monotreme echidnas.
The name hedgehog came into use around the year 1450, derived from the Middle Englishheyghoge, from heyg, hegge (“hedge”), because it frequents hedgerows, and hoge, hogge (“hog”), from its piglike snout.[4] Other names include urchin, hedgepig and furze-pig. The collective noun for a group of hedgehogs is array or prickle.” (Wikipedia)
There are approximately 6,0006,000 quills on a hedgehog
National Day of the Hedgehog (UK – Hedgehog numbers have dropped from more than 30 million in 1950 to under a million in 2015.
Hedgehog is a new concept for a robot that is specifically designed to overcome the challenges of traversing small solar system bodies.
African pygmy hedgehog
Hedgehog Band
Hedgehog Fibres is an Irish hand dyed yarn and fibre studio located in Cork, Ireland
Elizabeth Hartman quilt pattern
2009 movie
The MK10 hedgehog was developed by the British to overcome the primary deficiencies of the depth charge attack.
hedgehog mushroom
Jim Collins’ Hedgehog Concept shows you how to achieve lasting success by focusing on the one thing that really works for you.
Hedgehog Day highlights these loveable creatures – Feb 2, 2016
Strawberry Hedgehog makes handcrafted, vegan, toxin-free bath and body products
a prickle of hedgehogs
Neurons diversify astrocytes in the adult brain through sonic hedgehog signaling. (article in Science)
Hedgehog Medical Websites Development is the leading provider of design and website development to private health care practices nationwide.
Published three times a year by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, The Hedgehog Review offers critical reflections on contemporary culture—how we shape it, and how it shapes us.
Spiny Norman, animated character from a Monty Python sketch
Sonic hedgehog, a protein playing a key role in vertebrate organogenesis
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Everyone needs a pincushion and wouldn’t a chicken pincushion make you smile?
Don’t be a chicken!
Chicken pox
chicken pox vaccine
chicken pot pie
Definition: “The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticatedfowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a population of more than 19 billion in 2011,[1] there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird or domestic animal. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs.
Genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in Southeast-, East-,[2] and South Asia, but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent. From India, the domesticated chicken was imported to Lydia in western Asia Minor, and to Greece by the fifth century BC.[3] Fowl had been known in Egypt since the mid-15th century BC, with the “bird that gives birth every day” having come to Egypt from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Thutmose III.[4][5][6]” (Wikipedia)
coop
CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. It produces portable and efficient C and supports the R5RS and R7RS
chicken soup
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Chicken, Alaska
Chicken Run (2000 movie)
Chicken is an NPC in World of Warcraft. This NPC can be found in Elwynn Forest (11), Tirisfal Glades (8), Westfall (8), Northern Barrens (3), Redridge Mountains (3), Azuremyst Isle (2), Duskwood and Howling Fjord.
leghorn chicken
Steampunk Riders: Arcade Chicken Blast
IP Chicken
Chicken Chicken is a VNC client for Mac OS X.
Plymouth Rock Chicken
Chicken House Books
fried chicken
chicken and dumplings
Orpington Chicken
The Chicken Slacks: Boston’s premier performing soul and funk band!
Chicken & Egg Pictures supports women non-fiction filmmakers
Donation Blocks for Cutting Corners Ruler + a Lobster
It took me forever to get these donation blocks done and I am only marginally closer to having a finished quilt.
Mrs. K’s Cutting Corners Quilt
These are the pieces I am going to use to try out the Cutting Corners Ruler a la Mrs. K’s quilt.
Now that I have the blocks, I have to figure out the ruler. I took a quick look and it seems to make sense. I am going to start with the sashing and decide about the checkerboard border later.
I am making a smaller quilt to start with and may use the ruler to make others later.
I don’t actually have any IRRs right now and I wasn’t at the BAMQG meeting, so I couldn’t take another. I had three in quick succession, with Cheryl’s being the last before my brief hiatus. Ruth‘s and Claire‘s pieces were the other two in the trio.
Michelle and I met at Trader Joe’s again and exchanged IRRs. I took Claire’s to pass along as she wouldn’t be at the meeting either. I headed up to the North Coast again with DH for NSGW/#politicalwifery events and Michelle was headed to Spain. Rhonda was kind enough to take both bags to the meeting for us and I gave them to her at the CQFA meeting.
All of this meant that I had to get Cheryl’s done in time to get it to Rhonda. I had about a day once I figured out all of the timing, so I got down to business.
Cheryl’s IRR – before
Cheryl’s piece looked great when I got it and I was loathe to wreck it, but Michelle had added half a row, so that missing section was perfect for me to complete.
Cheryl’s piece is turning out really well. I love it, thus the feelings of avoiding wreckage. I really wanted to use the Paris map fabric, but couldn’t really fit it in once all was said and done.
I walked around with it on my design wall for a few days and decided to add some Flying Geese. Yes, I am still in love with Flying Geese.
I also needed to add my signature fabric, but I didn’t want to add a large patch or strip as I have on other pieces, because I wanted to preserve the mainly white and turquoise color story.
There were a few small strips left over from other piecing, so I pieced a few of those together to make another strip large enough to handle my signature fabric. I wanted something that would look like it fit in.
Cheryl’s IRR – my part
I made some Flying Geese. Since those were the main parts, I started working getting Michelle’s strip completed. I added some white and a strip of the black and white stripe, which came to me after looking at the piece.
After making my piece, I think the white on the edge needs to be corralled, but someone else, or Cheryl, will have to worry about that. I am pleased with how my part came out and I think my signature fabric piece fits in well without overwhelming the whole design.
Cheryl’s IRR – finished with my part
I also think the piece needs some space at the top. The bottom is getting to be quite breezy while the top is looking a little cramped. Not fatally so, but a little. It will be interesting to see what happens.
This should be easy for you! You can even make a cushion!
pillow
whoopie cushion
foam cushion
Definition: “A cushion is a soft bag of some ornamental material, stuffed with wool, hair, feathers, polyester staple fiber, non-woven material, or even paper torn into fragments. It may be used for sitting or kneeling upon, or to soften the hardness or angularity of a chair or couch.[1]
A cushion is also referred to as a bolster, hassock, headrest and a sham.[2]
Cushions and rugs can be used temporarily outside to soften a hard ground. They can be placed on sunloungers and used to prevent annoyances from moist grass and biting insects. Some dialects of English use this word to refer to throw pillows as well.
The cushion is a very ancient article of furniture; the inventories of the contents of palaces and great houses in the early Middle Ages constantly made mention of them. Cushions were then often of great size, covered with leather, and firm enough to serve as a seat, but the steady tendency of all furniture has been to grow smaller with time. Today, the cushion is considered an upholstery item.
Cushions were, and are, used as seats at all events in Italy and Spain at a very much later period, and in Saint-Simon‘s time it is found that in the Spanish palace they were still regarded as a peculiarly honourable substitute for a chair. In Italy, the right to kneel upon a cushion in church behind the king was love guarded and strictly regulated, as it is learnt again from Saint-Simon. This type of cushion was called a carreau, or bird. When seats were rude and hard, cushions may have been a necessity; they are now one of the minor things of life.
Decorative cushions are likely to have a fancy cover material which are patternedstyle and generally used on furniture.” (Wikipedia)
cushion grip
seat cushion foam
medical cushions
cushion cover
scatter cushions
cushion cut engagement rings
M Cushion is the first fashion forward shiatsu massage cushion.
Lumi Cushion, a liquid foundation infused in an innovative sponge that delivers the perfect amount of makeup.
As your body position and shape changes, your ROHO cushion adjusts creating a safe and comfortable seating surface.
The Magical Cushion that helps children with attention deficit disorder and sensory procession issues focus better when learning.
Darma is the world’s first smart cushion that monitors your posture, sitting habits, stress level, and coaches you to sit better.
carpet cushioning
Zabuton cushions
The Cue & Cushion is a pool hall, bar, and lounge located in Hooksett, NH.
Carpet Cushion Council
meditation cushions
CPAP mask cushions
sofa cushion covers
Arctic Wire Spring Aircool Cushion
Zafu cushion
Brooks Cushion Me running shoes
wheelchair cushions
The Galaxy Cushion combines multi-cellular air technology with a patented, contouring design, shaped to fit the anatomical form.
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I already wrote a little bit about the February challenge, but look for a full fledged post about it soon. I am just catching up with the January challenge. I am happy with my first effort with bias tape. It was interesting and a good learning experience, but I want to try this picture again. I like the image, but my rendition didn’t come out as I had hoped.
Mighty Lucky January Challenge
I really like the thin beak of the original picture. I didn’t get the beak as thin as I would have liked. I used a lot of pins, but it was hard to keep the bias in place as I sewed and I am not sure why. The wobble also resulted in all of the straight lines ending up wobbly. This is because I didn’t have the Wonder tape called for in the directions (I have it now). I didn’t add fusible to my bias tape, which was an option I didn’t think about.
Still, I made something for the challenge. I was also expecting progress not perfection. WooHoo!
I was excited about this challenge, because I had been wanting to learn to make bias tape using bias tape makers. It might useful for embellishing or design purposes in the future. This was the perfect opportunity.
Bias Tape Start
Insert Pin
After cutting and sewing the bias, I fed the piece through using a pin and the device started making bias tape! I couldn’t believe it that the process worked. Once I got going, I found it incredibly useful to poke a pin into my pressing surface to hold the bias in place. As I reached the end of my pressing mat with the iron, I had to move the pin.
Bias tape maker seam allowance problem
I was disappointed that the directions did not talk about type of fabric or any challenges that might occur. I found a couple of things that were challenging.
First, I used a Kona Solid for the red bias tape. As I have mentioned in the past there is a lot to like about Kona, but its loose weave is not a bonus. I cut my strips about 1/2″ wide and as I fed them through the bias tape maker to make 1/4″ bias, the seams got hung up on the device. The bias tape maker had a real problem going over them as I pulled the tape through. I ended up helping them with a stiletto, but the seams looked terrible once the tape was made, as you can see in the photo with the blue arrow. The photo is of completed bias tape. You can see that the line is not smooth and there is a marked bump in the tape. Yes, I pressed the seams flat and they are still not attractive. The seams are also already starting to fray.
I am thinking that the problem could have been the fabric, as mentioned, combined with the size of the bias tape I chose to make. I’ll have to experiment some more to see what works. Looser weave fabric might work just fine with a larger sized bias tape maker. I do think I might try this technique with Art Gallery Pure Elements Solids as they are thin and tightly woven. I am not sure if that line has a bright scarlet.
Look How Many Bias Strips!!
Second, there was no way of knowing how much bias tape could be made. There was no chart like a bias binding chart included with the directions. Would a bias binding chart used for binding a quilt work? I tried looking at one, but it don’t go down to a small enough width of tape. I now have about 500 yards of bias tape still to use, which is why I am not concerned about a do over.
Yes, I had to sew all of those tiny strips together, which was another ordeal in itself. I should have used the tube bias method.
Next, I used the 1/4″ bias tape maker. It worked like a charm, but is very small. I would recommend using a 1/2″ or 3/8″ bias tape maker on your first time out.
Fourth, the directions did not talk about using a Point Trimmer. A Point Trimmer helps you line up the edges of the bias tape to sew it together in a long string. You can use it for your binding strips as well if you don’t use the tube binding method. As an aside, if you don’t have Point Trimmer ruler, you really need to get one. I like the Judy Martin version because it helps you trim two types of triangles in one tool BUT there are other manufacturers who make them and almost any are good.
Bias tape makers
Fifth, these bias tape makers are not readily available. I went to three stores, checked Amazon, Fabric.com and some other places before I found a full selection at Beverly’s. The quilt stores didn’t have them. Amazon, etc had a few, but not all the sizes and not sold in sets. None of the online places could get them to me in a timely manner. I now have a set of them and won’t need to buy them again, but I was surprised. If I were Lucky Spools, I would have made a deal with some shop to sell kits of the bias tape makers and the Wonder Tape.
Pressing Matters
Sixth, there were very few instructions about pressing. The author of this ‘lesson’ did say to keep your fingers away from the hot iron, but not much else. I used a type of stiletto, which prevented me from burned fingers. It is two pronged, which gives me more ‘holding’ surface. I think I bought it at a booth at the county fair or PIQF where they sell every kind of scissor and small metal tool known to mankind.
There is more come on this technique as I will post about my next effort.
Mighty Lucky Member
Learning is not a smooth process. I am not complaining about any of the above; I am just telling you my story. One lesson for me is to try different brands of solids. Kona is just so easy to find! I am glad I tried this technique and learned how to make bias tape with these devices.
After this one, I will post only 15 more prompts, then something new or not.
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I am Woman, Hear Me Roar
woman of the year
Definition: “A woman is a femalehuman. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. The term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as “women’s rights“. “Woman” may also refer to a person’s gender identity.[1] Women with typical genetic development are usually capable of giving birth from puberty until menopause. In the context of gender identity, transgender people who are biologically determined to be male and identify as women cannot give birth. Some intersex people who identify as women cannot give birth due to either sterility or inheriting one or more Y chromosomes. In extremely rare cases, people who have Swyer syndrome can give birth with medical assistance. Throughout history women have assumed or been assigned various social roles.” (Wikipedia)
womanhood
International Women’s Day (IWD) is March 8 and the 2016 theme is Pledge For Parity. Celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women
women
Women’s rights
UN Women is the United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Pioneer Woman
Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent, Inc. (W.O.M.A.N., Inc.) has operated since 1978 as a community-based, multi-service agency
women’s college
Women for Women International: Non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to financial, educational, and interpersonal support of women survivors of war, poverty and injustice.
Women of the Vine Alliance. The world’s leading membership alliance dedicated to the support and advancement of women in the alcohol beverage industry.
Global Fund for Women is one of the world’s leading foundations for gender equality, standing up for the human rights of women and girls.
Women Who Code (WWCode) is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers.
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, etc.
National Organization for Women
National Women’s History Project: Originator of Women’s History Month.
women’s suffrage
League of Women Voters
Society of Women Engineers
women’s shoes
Woman’s Day
National American Woman Suffrage Association
women’s health
Go Red For Women
The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) is dedicated to reclaiming the missing half of history – women’s history.
Center for Women Veterans
The position of woman in society has given rise to a discussion which, is known under the name of the ‘woman question’
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“Word” is the shortened form of the phrase: “my word is my bond” which was originated by inmates in U.S. prisons. (Urban Dictionary)
Word of the Day
Word Jumble
Word Notebooks – The unique bullet point system used in Word. Notebooks lets you organize your tasks efficiently. Simply fill in the bullet point when writing an item on that line. Trace the circle around it when it’s important and add a slash when you’ve started work on it. Once the task is complete, simply mark down an “X” and move on to the next item on your list. It’s an easy way to keep track of all your notes.
Scrabble Word Finder
Words with Friends
word on the street
Word Search Puzzle
word of mouth
The Words – 2012 movie
Animated Super hero WordGirl fights crime using her superhero strength and her colossal vocabulary with her monkey sidekick, Captain Huggy Face.
The Word (band)
F-word
word games
Word Riot is an online literary magazine celebrating the best writers on the internet.
Word Club. The Scripps National Spelling Bee provides children with powerful lessons about language, learning and life.
Six Word Memoirs
Race Forward’s Drop the I-Word campaign to eliminate use of the word “illegal” was launched in September 2010
Words without Borders – Working to promote international communication through translation of the world’s best writing.
The Word Detective – The online version of the newspaper column answering readers’ questions about words and language.
Word & World is a quarterly journal of theology whose readers are concerned with Christian ministry in and for the world.
Prepare students for reading success with three sets of high-frequency word books, featuring the most commonly used words in printed text.
word for word
Words & Phrases
Word Count Tool
Urban Word NYC champions the voices of New York City youth by providing platforms for critical literacy, youth development and leadership
Yes, they are coming fast and furious! I got two at the last BAMQG meeting, as I mentioned. I was able to work on Claire’s piece during my last free sewing weekend, but I didn’t get to Ruth’s. While having little time to sew on the weekend, I have had to cram the work into bits of time during the week. Of course, I forgot to take a before picture. 🙁 C’est la vie. If you imagine removing my part, that is the before. 😉
There is something that makes me think of a castle. The ‘mountains’ could be points of a tower and the curved sections could be arches.
My addition to Ruth’s IRR
Ruth’s piece has a clear color story and large curved center with triangles seem to be a design focus. The piece spoke to me immediately after I put it up on my design wall. I saw the triangles on the top that looked like mountains and decided to add something similar on the bottom.
I had to do some fancy sewing with background around the mountains since I didn’t want to cut off the tips. I think the background looks like Mary Mashuta’s Pushed Neutral concept and I like it.
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lack of color
Blackbeard
Definition: “Black is the darkest color, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light. It is the opposite of white (the combined spectrum of color or light).[1] It is an achromatic color, literally a color without color or hue.[2] It is one of the four primary colors in the CMYK color model, along with cyan, yellow, and magenta, used in color printing to produce all the other colors.
Black was one of the first colors used by artists in neolithic cave paintings. In the 14th century, it began to be worn by royalty, the clergy, judges and government officials in much of Europe. It became the color worn by English romantic poets, businessmen and statesmen in the 19th century, and a high fashion color in the 20th century.[3]
In the Roman Empire, it became the color of mourning, and over the centuries it was frequently associated with death, evil, witches and magic. According to surveys in Europe and North America, it is the color most commonly associated with mourning, the end, secrets, magic, force, violence, evil, and elegance.[4]” (Wikipedia)
Black Founders is an organization dedicated to diversity in tech. Our mission is to increase the number of successful black entrepreneurs in technology.
blackboard
color of mourning
Black Beauty – an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell
black pearl (also a ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie)
Jack Black
black hole
black gold
black friday
BeagleBone Black is a low-cost, community-supported development platform for developers and hobbyists.
Black & Decker
Orphan Black
Black Girls Code-STEM education San Francisco, Technology training for girls, diversity learning, Social Entrepreneurship in San Francisco
Black Sabbath
Black Bar Hollywood
The Black Keys
The Black Lips are a self-described “flower punk” band from Atlanta, Georgia.
Country music star, Clint Black
black jeans
Black Hat
Black Lives Matter
The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, …
black cat
Black History Month
Cara Black is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Aimee Leduc Mystery Thriller Series of novels set in Paris, France.
black and blue
Black Hills
Ladysmith Black Mambazo – all-male South African a cappella singing group.
The Black Crowes
Orange is the New Black
documentary photographer Matt Black
black box
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
People
Black people, a population group identified in some countries
Next on the IRR list was Claire’s piece. Claire was in my original group so I wanted to make sure I worked on all of those quilts. I received her piece at the January BAMQG meeting.
Claire’s IRR was a challenge. The colors are perfect for Claire, but they are not my colors. Also, many of the fabrics had been used up or smaller pieces were left. This is why the project is called a challenge! I did not let these things discourage me.
I put the piece up on my design wall and tried to see the focal point or the place where Claire started. I couldn’t really tell, so I looked at who had worked on the piece and still couldn’t tell what might have been Claire’s start.
Trying out the Grandmother’s Fan idea
I put the focal point aside and looked at the piece. I saw some good curved lines and thought something like the Grandmother’s Fan block might work. I cut some blades and put them up on the design wall.
I really did try to keep, mostly, to the 20 minute rule. I find that rule to be hard as the pieces get larger. Of course, cutting is still a challenge. Also, the curves on Claire’s were not an easy design element. And, right on cue, life got in the way and the piece sat on my design wall for a week or more.
Claire’s IRR – continuing the curves
As I walked in and out of my workroom I decided I did like the curves. At one point, I adjusted the fans so the existing curves would be continued — or give the illusion of being continued.
In the photo, I tried to point out to you, in a very obnoxious color, what I thought of as ‘continuing the curve’. No, the blades aren’t all the same size, but the curve seems to be the most important in terms of design. I hope the curves I added work with the existing curves to create a focal point.
The bad part is that I didn’t square off the fans. I know I should have, but I just didn’t feel like it. I know I can offer to do it later, if push comes to shove. I am hoping that someone else will square them off down the road.
Claire’s IRR with my addition
I am happy with what I did. I gave the piece to Michelle on Thursday and will look forward to seeing what she does.
The Library Information Literacy Advisory Committee (LILAC), established by the Council of Chief Librarians and the University Librarian in 2004, grows out of an ongoing interest and responsibility in promoting information literacy across CUNY.
National Lilac Rabbit Club of America promoting Lilac Rabbits. [Lilac rabbits???]
Lilac Patisserie – A dedicated gluten free bakery and café on State Street in Santa Barbara, CA.
Lilac City Grille – Rochester, NH
Pine Mountain Clubs Annual Lilac Festival
Definition: “Syringa vulgaris (lilac or common lilac) is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to the Balkan Peninsula, where it grows on rocky hills.[1][2][3] This species is widely cultivated as an ornamental and has been naturalized in other parts of Europe (UK, France, Germany, Italy, etc.) as well as much of North America. It is not regarded as an aggressive species, found in the wild in widely scattered sites, usually in the vicinity of past or present human habitations.[4][5][6]
Syringa vulgaris is a large deciduousshrub or multi-stemmed small tree, growing to 6–7 m (20–23 ft) high, producing secondary shoots (“suckers”) from the base or roots, with stem diameters of up to 20 cm (8 in), which in the course of decades may produce a small clonal thicket.[7] The bark is grey to grey-brown, smooth on young stems, longitudinally furrowed and flaking on older stems. The leaves are simple, 4–12 cm (2–5 in) and 3–8 cm broad, light green to glaucous, oval to cordate, with pinnate leaf venation, a mucronate apex and an entire margin. They are arranged in opposite pairs or occasionally in whorls of three. The flowers have a tubular base to the corolla 6–10 mm long with an open four-lobed apex 5–8 mm across, usually lilac to mauve, occasionally white. They are arranged in dense, terminal panicles 8–18 cm (3–7 in) long. The fruit is a dry, smooth brown capsule, 1–2 cm long, splitting in two to release the two winged seeds.[1][8” (Wikipedia)
Lilac Bijoux believes in carefully curating their fashion to make sure they bring you the best casual-chic flair your can find.
The Mackinac Island Lilac Festival is a 10-day celebration, June 5 through 14.
“The story of lilac, according to Greek mythology, begins with a beautiful nymph named Syringa (lilac’s botanical name). Captivated by her beauty, Pan, the god of the forests and fields, chased Syringa through the forest. Frightened by Pan’s affections, Syringa escaped him by turning herself into an aromatic bush – the flower we now refer to as lilac.
The 8th wedding anniversary flower and the state flower of New Hampshire (symbolizing the hardy character of the Granite State’s citizens), lilacs are frequently considered a harbinger of spring, with the time of their bloom signaling whether spring will be early or late. In the language of flowers, purple lilacs symbolize the first emotions of love, while white lilacs represent youthful innocence.” (Teleflora)
Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and get familiar with your blog or website.
The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.
We are also talking about this on Twitter and Instagram. Use the hashtag #CPP
This week turned into an unexpectedly busy week. Nothing bad, just a number of time sucking curve balls. As a result, I still haven’t put bias strips to background for the Mighty Lucky Quilting Club challenge. If I had won the Powerball, then all that busyness could have gone away and I could have immersed myself in sewing. HA!
I can now, at least, make the bias strips since I was able to find the one of the bias tape makers I wanted to play with at Beverly’s. Yes, I did order them from Amazon and I received the 1″, but the 1/4″ tape maker was on back order. I made trips to a couple of quilt stores, knowing I could cancel the online orders, but both Always Quilting and Scruffy Quilts were out of bias tape makers. I guess the MLQC is popular OR making bias tape is popular.
I was out for a walk and stopped in at Beverly’s even though i didn’t have a coupon. They had all the sizes in the Clover brand! Since I had some simple ideas in mind, I bought the 1/4″ tape maker and cancelled the Amazon order.
Aside from the sketches that I made and showed you the other day, I found two pictures that also make me want to make them using bias tape.
Bias tape water bird
I saw the first picture when I was, again, out for a walk (I walk a lot). It is a cool line drawing I saw a on the back of a car. I think I might have mentioned that I love water birds once or twice and this sticker reminded me of an egret. The body is a little fat, but I can adjust that – or not – when I get the bias tape ready.
I could also do an outline of myself, though there is not a lot of detail, because I am bundled up and in shadow. I am not inclined to do that, but the outline is clear enough.
Statue
Then, yesterday, I was early for a meeting. I didn’t want to announce myself until closer to the meeting time, so I started to organize the photos on my phone. I have too many and I need to off load them, but organizing always calms my nerves. In the course of that exercise, I found another bird statue that would be a great bias tape drawing.
I remember taking the photo from a magazine wanting to remember the swoops and lines of the beautiful piece of art. Sadly, I don’t remember any details about the artist or the magazine. I did not make this statue!
One bird is one thing, but I am not sure I want to make both. If these challenge pieces are just challenges piece, then I can make as many as I want. If they will be a quilt, which is what I was thinking when I was sketching the confetti lines, then I might need to think about how many I make.
