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Welcome to the website of Mull Historical & Archaeological Society
…which aims to provide an overview of the historical sites on the Isle of Mull and its neighbouring islands.
These historical sites can be found by clicking on the appropriate link above, such as Living' or 'Working', which will then direct you to further links, for example 'Castles & Fortifications', 'Settlements', etc. Under these headings are many more pages. For example, within the Castles & Fortifications link you will find information about crannogs, brochs, duns and forts as well as castles – both ancient and modern.
Users of our old website will notice a few changes: Diary Dates – not just for MH&AS but for other events and organisations which are relevant to the users of this site, for example you may see events posted by Mull Museum, The Ross of Mull Historical Centre, Mull & Morvern Agricultural Society, Beatson's Building Supplies Mull Rally, the Highland Games held in Tobermory and more. We will add more features over the coming months.
We would like to have a comprehensive photo gallery and are adding images to the site on an on going basis. We would welcome your images, please send them to: email@example.com
Information about some of the projects we are involved in, such as the on-going work at Moy Castle, Lochbuie, and our 'watching brief' on the Macquarie Mausoleum at Gruline will be updated as appropriate.
You will find maps, suggested walks and this link, which enables you to become a member of the Society or to make donations to a project of particular interest to you, such as Moy Castle.
Whenever possible, we will try to link directly to other websites and sources of information. We will also acknowledge material from other sources. If there is a category that you would like us to include please email us at email@example.com
Development of this new site began in February 2013 and is a 'work in progress'. We would be very grateful for your patience as we continue to work.
Constructive Comments can be sent to: email@example.com and we will try to respond within a few days. MH&AS is run entirely by volunteers and we all have many demands on our time, so please forgive us if there is any delay. We hope you enjoy your visit.
Much material has been sourced and edited from Argyll. An inventory of the Ancient Monuments, vol. 3, Mull, Tiree, Coll & Northern Argyll (Excluding the Early Medieval and Later Monuments of Iona), Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1980.
If you would like to become a member of MH&AS or make a donation to the stabilisation of Moy Castle, you can do so by visiting the appropriate pages.
Wherever possible the photographer has been credited on the page. Most other photographs are courtesy of Alan Parker. We would like to express our grateful thanks to all contributors.
After Mike Shaw's February talk 'The Islands That Roofed the World' we are staying south of Oban for a talk by PhD Researcher, Ceri Houlbrook on 'The Ardmaddy Wishing Tree'. This talk with slides will be held in the committee room of Craignure Village Hall on Wednesday 5th March at 7.30pm. We booked the village […]
Last night, 7th February, the Hon. Mike Shaw came to Mull to talk about the 'Islands that Roofed the World'. We held the event at Tobermory Church Hall and before the speaker, we all (just under 30 of us) sat down to a 3 course supper catered for by Linda Cameron of Knockvologan. The food […]


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"We discovered a new type of chemical bonding," said Hoffmann, known globally for his pioneering work in the theory and computer modeling of chemical compound formation. "That's a pretty bold statement, but I'm not kidding you! It's a brand new type of chemical bonding, not previously known to science. Our discovery addresses one of the mysteries in astrophysics about the spectrum of white dwarf stars," Hoffmann said. "White dwarfs have an unusual spectrum that has been thought to result from polymerized hydrogen and helium which, of course, do not occur on Earth. It's possible out there because the magnetic fields on white dwarfs are several orders of magnitude larger than anything that can be generated on Earth." (University of North Dakota)
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Polymerized Hydrogen and Helium - Star Killers
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Back on Earth, garden variety hydrogen (H2) comes in two magnetic flavors called ortho and para-hydrogen. Here are depictions: link. They are stable at room temperature and interconvert slowly. I recall some cool experiments where someone wanted to know whether a metal catalyst was making and breaking H-H bonds in H2 without doing anything else. How do you look for changes when there is no net change? Now, you could go to the trouble of mixing some H2 with some D2 and then looking for HD (isotopic crossover) but the ortho para hydrogen scrambling of normal H2 was much more elegant and also gave everyone a lesson on the existence of the spin isomers.
Cool stuff, LL.And helium has the lowest melting and freezing point of any substance. It's so unreactive that it only gets together with itself (liquifies) at a few degrees above absolute zero. There is just nothing sticky about it.

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About High Point:
A handful of toprope routes can be climbed on a small rock face next to the Appalachian Trail south of the High Point Monument, the highest point in New Jersey. The rock is metaquartzite, and not-quite vertical cliff is 25 to 30 feet tall. The cliff faces east and is slow to dry. Under the right winter condition, there is ice climbing here. |
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#1 What A D*ck! Man Flashes Weather Channel Cameras In Virginia Beach08-27-2011, 05:26 PMIm pretty much speechless at what weve been seeing, said the Weather Channels Eric Fisher as he struggled against Hurricane Irenes winds at Virginia Beach. However, the thing that was shocking him wasnt the weather as much as the tons of people he saw wandering around, seemingly not caring about the huge storm they were in the middle of. And then, as if to accentuate his point, a young man in a bathing suit ran by, dropped his shorts, and gave national audiences a view of his storm front.
As Fisher continued trying to explain just how dangerous this storm really is, you have to hope nothing bad will happen to this young man. After all, that image above would be a terrible last known photograph.
Watch the (NSFW!) video from the Weather Channel below:
Would people rather have Geraldo??? :D
May the FORCE be with you!
These weather reporters crack me up. They insist on standing outside in the storm and getting blown around when they could just as easily narrate a video shot through a window. Idiots.
"The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves" ~ JFK; from his famous inauguration speech (What Democrats sounded like before today's neo-Liberals hijacked that party)
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08-27-2011, 10:46 PMIf there is a flood, they have to do the story standing in water. If there is wind and rain, they have to be out in it.
I'm not sure when it started but it's pretty standard now. Prolly even required.Hey careful man! There's a beverage here!
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08-27-2011, 10:56 PMIt wasn't that impressive. It took 2 viewings and a slow mo for me to catch it. :p
And it's funny. Bryan Norcross did his best work (Hurricane Andrew) INSIDE that studio. He didn't make his legend standing outside... He did his record 23 continuous hour broadcast inside like a rational human being.
~QC"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Rudyard Kipling - (1865-1936)
Context doesn't matter to this liberal it seems/ as long as it satisfies his godless dreams/ like monkeys throwing sh!t as castles in air/ as long as he throws/that is the extent of his care.
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08-28-2011, 12:31 AMThe actions of the flasher/streaker is not nearly as hard to manage as the total whinyassed way the reporter behaved. what a sissy britches.
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08-28-2011, 11:27 AMI think it's hilarious. Those kids seemed to be full of the enthusiasm which has withered from most people over the age of forty.
Besides, these weather slash news people deserve everything that comes to them. They stand there and drone on and on and on on several channels about NOTHING. It's raining, the wind is blowing, big fucking deal! The south has thunderstorms all year around which unfortunately drop the occasional tree or power line on somebody. For Christ's sake, we had a roller blader killed and blasted out of his skates by a lightening strike on the Courtney Campbell Causeway when the nearest cloud was 10 miles away. It happens.While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
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08-28-2011, 01:48 PMI have to admit, I feel rather stupid on occasion biking over the Treasure Island bridge, or waiting until the very last moment to get out of the Gulf when the clouds loom over Tampa. But all of life is a gamble, I am more often in danger riding my bike on local roadways. Death by lightning or death by Crown Victoria, same thing.
While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
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Checked off tons of items from the summer bucket list today. Look for fun post-adventure pics and ramblings to come. But for now here is the photo of the day from our morning climb up Skinner's Butte. Always a lovely view of Eugene (video by Richard D. Owens).
Daily Archives: May 28, 2011
#Chardonnay Day Recap
The wine was flowing and the fingers a-typing to commemorate the day of the chard.
While I am an avid wine drinker, I have never been a huge chardonnay drinker (I always left that to my mom). With a bad rap of tasting like you are gnawing on a tree or drinking butter cream – or that is only for Cougars (great article by Indie Vinos), I have frequently overlooked the variety, especially if I'm paying. But to participate in the world-celebration of chardonnay day, I opened my mind and mouth for some new Oregon chards.
Held at TheSlate, a trendy Portland car display room/community space with spray-paint, stenciled records hanging on the wall, the Taste and Tweet had a hip, open feel very fitting for the social media wine event. Hosted by Indie Vinos, an online wine-venture to bring hard-to-find artisan wines directly to the public through the website, I heard about the event through Twitter, which I admit I have become sickenly addicted to – I think I check my Klout score almost more than the scale. One of my followers @KarinMcKercher, who works for Indie Vinos, sparked my interest with a tweet mentioning the evening. One it was free, two it was about wine, and three I was free so why not. Additionally I've always wanted to meet other tweeter and wine peoples, so after a half day of work I made the trek two hours north.
With only two hours to taste, the wine aficionado and tweeters attacked 15 different artisan Oregon Chardonnays with smart phones in hand. Using hashtags #chardonnay and #IVTnT to follow the chatter, the battle was drawn – to oak or not to oak, that is the question.
The tasting included Chardonnay's by:
Kramer Vineyards (Follow @kimkramerwine)
Thistle (Follow @Thistle_Wines)
Durant Vineyards (Follow @OregonOliveMill)
Adelsheim (Follow @Adelsheim)
Chehalem (Follow @chehalemwines)
Stoller Vineyards (Follow @Stoller_Vineyards)
LongPlay (Follow @LongplayWine)
Pudding River Wine Cellars (Follow @puddingriver)
Apolloni Vineyards (Follow @apolloniwine)
Seven of Hearts (Follow @7ofheartswine)
So what style won the battle? It's up in the air. It's like what Aron Hess, the winemaker for Longplay said, "wine is kind of like music – it's a question of taste."
Top Tweets of the Night
@NWWines: #IVTnT#Chardonnay @Adelsheim 09 Willamette Valley 86% stainless taste nice acid soft berry http://twitpic.com/52yxwn
@PDXfoodcarts: This 2009 #chardonnay from Adelsheim would go great with fishy chips from @EuroTrashCart #ivtnt
@oenoblog: INOX #Chardonnay from @chehalemwines #ivtnt brilliant clear water white gold
@Anna_V: The crowd is loosening up at the #chardonnay speed tasting wonder why? #closeproximity #yummywine #ivtnt
@bottlescene: And @chehalemwines 09 Ian's Res. #chardonnay has a beautifully complex nose…I almost don't want taste it…almost 😉 #ivtnt #orwine
@nwwines: #IVTnT #Chardonnay 07 SV Estate Chard @Stoller_Winery nice soft oak on nose smooth Finnish http://twitpic.com/52z2ss
@oenoblog: 08 @longplay jory slope #chardonnay clean lots of candied tropical fruit caramel some creaminess #ivtnt
@KelseyIvey & @Anna_V: So super cute these #chardonnnay boys #maybetimetoslowdown #ornot #ivtnt 😉
@oenoblog: Next is @puddingriver 08 #chardonnay clear bright medium deep straw yellow. Tropical banana caramel and marshmallow #ivtnt
@OregonOliveMill: RT @nwwines: #IVTnT #Chardonnay Durante Vineyards 09 Chard Dundee Hills @OregonOliveMill tropical nose, toasty nice Finnish
@dieselboi: New fan of @puddingriver. They have a rooster on their label.#chardonnay #ivtnt
@dieselboi: Drinking some @apolloniwine. When I see the name, I think of purple rain.@appolonia #chardonnay #ivtnt
@bottlescene: Sean Driggers & his 2 #Chardonnay efforts. Great work on both! 07 reserve is my unique wine o the night…so far! #ivtnt http://t.co/zX5PrbQ
@decoywine: RT @Anna_V: The room erupts with friendly conversation #chardonnay as social lubricant #ivtnt
@AyoubWines: RT @oenoblog: 09 Ayoub #chardonnay clear bright gold. Soft nose creamy vanilla pear. Dry great length fresh yellow apple candiepear vanilla. #ivtnt
@KelseyIvey: Favorite thing about the #IVTnT #Chardonnay tasting with @indievinos is tasting #Wine with others with huge wine vocabularies.
By the end of the night (at least for me, since I needed to drive back to Eugene) our group of wine-tweets had the hashtag #IVTnT trending in Portland. (@TrendsPortland: @ivtnt is now trending in #Portland http://trendsmap.com/us/Portland)
And as @HarvestMari tweeted "You guys, I might be a #Chardonnay believer," I think I may be converted as well. Go Oregon Chardonnays!


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We know that Super Mario is a legendary video game character, and there's no doubt that he has millions of fans all over the world, and speaking of Super Mario fans, one of them has made a special geeky aquarium.
Super Mario has gained tremendous popularity over the years, and if you're a Super Mario fan, today we have special pair of headphones for you. Continue reading »
There are people that simply enjoy in latest video games, but if you or your significant other has a thing for retro video games, today we have something special if you want to have a geeky wedding, and it is called Wedding Entertainment System. Continue reading »
This is amazing news for petrolheads like myself. The Mercedes SLS AMG is an awesome, new gullwing supercar, it was also the highlight of the 2009 International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, what wonderful news it is to know its now been confirmed that we'll be able to drive it in the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 for PlayStation 3.
Here's the latest Halo 3 ODST game trailer, the game itself was made available earlier this week, exclusively only for Xbox 360. For those not so familiar, Halo 3 ODST is a shooter video game with gameplay taking place from a first-person perspective. Although the gameplay of ODST bears a strong resemblance to previous Halo titles, the player does not assume the role of the enhanced human supersoldier Master Chief. Instead, the player controls a lone UNSC soldier, known as the Rookie. The game trailer below is probably one of the coolest game trailers we've seen. Check it out and you'll see!
Nintendo has announced that a new black version of its popular video game console Wii will be arriving in August. Those of you who have held up on buying the original white colour themed Wii for the past two years may now finally be tempted to a make purchase.
Though there won't be any changes in terms of hardware, I must say that the black Wii as well as its black Wiimote pictured looks amazing.


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and they come in a package of :
1. The Wedding/Church Invitation
2. An explaination of Chinese Wedding Symbols
3. A Save The Day Magnet
Now I need to print out ( custom ) envelopes and we're good to go!
Malaysian Doctor moves to Texas, gets married and embarks on a journey of exploring the world around her.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Wedding and Puppy Updates
21 comments:
- Christine said...
AWW! What cute puppies!
- Kerri Rachelle said...
Your invitations look awesome! I really can't wait til I get to see all your wedding pictures!
- Animesh said...
Hmm.. artistic talent in a doctor? Not something we come across too often :) And hey! My suggestion of mailing me one of the puppies still stands. Give it a thought, ok? :))
- K. Restoule said...
Glad that the invites are done. My sister is going through a lot of work for her invites as well. She's getting married in August.
Oh yeah. CUTE LITTLE PUPPIES. PRETTY PUPPIES. Sorry, couldn't help it. - 2:15 AM
- Pickle said...
ok I have now been reduced to baby talk and cooing over your puppies! SOOOOOO CUTE. The invitations are looking great. We are all awaiting the wedding now and counting down with you.
:o) - 2:26 AM
- Desmond Goh said...
Hi Letti, thanks for checking, I am doing great. The reason I am so quiet was TMnet was down for several days. It has just 2 minutes ago that it began working. I love your invitation card with the Chinese words "Zhen Ai" as the main header. Keep the puppies as Big Ears and Tiny Ears. The names are so original and I got this feeling that the puppies are going to bring you lots of happiness and luck.
- Aaron.Pink said...
Those invitations look awesome! So do the puppies :)
- <"3 )~ said...
Letti -- ooooh! I love the invitations!!
I want a puppy -- but my apt. won't let me have one ... hmm... maybe we should mail one to OLIVER'S new apt!!! hehe! Then I could have one through him ;)
taranicole <"3 )~
http://www.techtrend.com/blog/taranicole - 7:48 AM
- makuahine said...
Wow your invitations are so nice! I never would have had enough guts to make mine, we ordered those. I did make the programs though, and some for a friend a couple of years later that turned out really nice.
So cool though, I love the symbols at the top, it looks really nice!! - 8:52 AM
- not4me said...
Wow Letti, your invitations really look beautiful - and totally go with your running theme :) Oh and the puppies are cute too of course!
- KEF said...
Wow Letti, the cards are awesome. How did you pinch metals on a paper? DIY ke? Tell me more about it.
Eh, I'm giving up hope. The puppies are never turning blue, like thier mom the BlueKeeler. - 12:57 PM
- KEF said...
Wow Letti, the cards are awesome. How did you pinch metals on a paper? DIY ke? Tell me more about it.
Eh, I'm giving up hope. The puppies are never turning blue, like thier mom the BlueKeeler. - 12:57 PM
- letti said...
christine: Yup, they're irresistable
kerri: thanks :)
animesh: that comes from having genetics from 2 Art majors/teachers :)
k. restoule: congratulations to your sister! Yup, the puppies do that to anyone :)
pickle: Thanks..i put in a lotta time and thought into the invitations..will post the rest of the stuff later :)
Desmond: Yup, i was trying to infuse lotsa chinese accents into the invitation and wedding :)
aaron: thanks :)
Tara: Heheh..they're so fat now that postage is gonna be a killer..LOL
Makuahine: Well, I love arts & crafts and like that, Jumbledmind calls me her crafts sister :)
Lynne: Thanks..it's a labor of love for sure
KEF: They are never going to be blue, unfortunately :( And yes, had to punch the metal, tie the ribbon, print, cut the edges etc etc..LOTSA WORK! :) - 5:11 PM
- *~*HollyMarie*~* said...
Those puppies are SO cute. It makes me wanna go out and buy a puppy right now!!
I'm so glad that you have the invitations almost complete. They look wonderful!!
*~*God Bless*~* - 5:47 PM
- Hannah said...
Gorgeous invitations, and how nice to explain the meaning of the symbols since some won't know.
And while I was looking a your adorable puppies, I had my 2 babies on my lap. :-) - 6:09 PM
- SiaoChaBoa said...
Hey.. letti,
Your custom made wedding invitations look fabulous..! i'm sure those ang mohs receiving them would really adore them.. and appreciate yer effort..! and david .. i'm sure love it too.. :) - 6:09 PM
Luv the invitations :) those puppies are so cute;)
tcz - 7:21 PM
- Jin said...
The invitations look fantastic! I love the choice of red for your wedding, very classy. :)
- fish fish said...
Big ears, small ears soooo cute. Aptly named.
- Monica said...
from what i could see of the invitations they look gorgeous!!
I got a save the day magnet two years ago, its still on my fridge! - 9:26 AM
- letti said...
Nice! I love when people make their own wedding invitations. It's such a personal touch.
Those look great!
Sharron | Homepage | 03.29.05 - 10:53 pm | #
Not that I'll be getting one. I still think it's so cool how your doing everything for your wedding. The puppies are looking great. You'll have your hands full in no time.
Raven | Homepage | 03.30.05 - 12:20 am | #
Nice invitations. U know, I find myself glancing at ur wedding daisy path occasionally. Have a whale organizing it ya! Cute puppies, have they started their cute little pranks and tricks yet? :D
Laura Y | Homepage | 03.30.05 - 12:34 am | #
Oh, I looove these invitations, they look prettyyyy.....
Oh and... can I have the same puppy, yours look so cute!!! hehehe
kay | Homepage | 03.30.05 - 2:24 am | #
i remember my i helped out my friend making her wedding invitation cards last year. it wasnt just priting and putting them in envelopes. it's alot of cutting out and punching papers as it's a very crafty kinda card. hehe.
cant wait till your wedding day!! so excited!!
Michelle | Homepage | 03.30.05 - 8:31 am | #
I am so excited for you!
Penny Seow | Homepage | 03.30.05 - 10:01 am | #
I'll be looking for mine in the mail. :op
(totally kidding)
Big Gay Sam | Homepage | 03.30.05 - 10:49 am | #
puppy looks sad in photo
dreaming-neko | Homepage | 03.30.05 - 1:16 pm | #
thanks everyone I really enjoyed making the invitations although it took a lotta planning and WORK! hehe..and i'll try and post smiling puppy pictures next
letti | Homepage | 03.30.05 - 5:22 pm | # - 9:05 PM


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The starfish knobs add coastal flare.
...and my tall apothecary jars sit on the floor beside it.
It's a sweet little table... just trying to decide now if I should sell or keep it.
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Here's to Handy Andy
Megan, You have such a beautiful blog! Your hutch not only took on a whole new look, but a whole new life with that pretty white. The vignette on top of it really puts it over-the-top stunning! I would love to know the kind of paint you used!
Beautiful and inspiring!!!!!!
If everyone who sells stuff listened to me their houses would be overflowing. But your stuff looks so at home on it, how can you not keep it? Just for a little while maybe?
Hey Holly! I love your table makeover! The vignette you created on top is perfect for it! I'm sure it will go fast if you decide to sell it. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. I appreciate you for posting my pillows on your Facebook page!
ReplyDeleteI just nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award...feel free to check out the post here: http://chronicchristiancrafter.blogspot.com/2012/03/versatile-blogger-award.html. Feel free to participate if you wish...or not. I just wanted to let you know that I think that you are doing a great job!!!
Erin @ Chronic Christian Crafter
This is adorable, Holly! I just love the coastal touches, it's beautiful! Thank you so much for visiting Sweet Ava Kate and following, so sweet of you!
I'm following back and look forward to seeing all your wonderful projects. Also, I'd love to be a guest blogger some day. I'll contact you via email and you can let me know! Have a great weekend! Blessings, Alicia
Beautiful! Did you have to sand or anything before you painted? I have seen other blogs that use spray paint as well. Which do you recommend?


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Sports: Is There Too Much Glitz at the Olympics?
Culture WatchIt's not that the Greeks might not want to replicate the fanciful marketing of the Utah Winter Games. They just don't have the resources. Therein lies the secret of how Athens could help the world rediscover the true Olympics meaning, obscured behind the commercial veneer of the 2002 Winter Games.
I was one of millions glued to the TV set during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, Feb. 8. It was spectacular, entertaining and sometimes moving. Those who staged it deserve admiration-- except for an excess of nationalism at the start and end, and a failure to protect the natural environment.
Opening ceremonies-- while acknowledging cultural gifts of the host nation-- are intended to be generic in focus, not nationalistic. So it was unfortunate that the Sept. 11 attack on the United States got such emphasis, and that we were smothered with American gold medal-winners passing the Olympic flame like a relay baton before lighting the torch.
The 9-11 recognition was understandable and proper in a nation still reeling from the stunning attack. But it should have been limited, either to the stirring voice of the New York policeman (singing the National Anthem, not God Bless America), or the moving display of the tattered 9-11 flag.
The end became overkill when one American gold-medal winner from the past after another handled the flame before the torch was ignited. Having members of the 1980 U.S. hockey team do the igniting was nostalgia savored by Americans who can remember their unexpected upset of the USSR. But it was meaningless for other nations, some of whom saw it as a vestige of the Cold War, trumpeting a symbolic victory over communism.
Olympic principles embody higher goals that get lost in nationalistic fervor. The Salt Lake City welcoming show, while an entertaining event, was stained by over-emphasis on U.S. tragedy and achievement.
Despite the evening's marvels, it failed to adequately honor all of what our TV commentators described as the"three pillars of the Olympics movement: athletics, culture and the environment." The athletic pillar surely would dominate our attention for two weeks, maybe longer after the Las Vegas style stage production that preceded the first awarding of medals. It caused TV host, Bob Costas, to quip:"If they do that before every medals presentation, we'll be here until it's time to go to Greece for the Summer Games."
The cultural side was superb, giving places of esteem to a Native American pageant, the hoe-down dancing of western pioneers, and laying of the golden spike when railroad tracks from the east and from the west met near the continental divide.
But the environment's importance to future Olympiads and to survival of humanity not only was overlooked. It was degraded. That was no surprise to those aware of how the Utah Games ignore the 1994 guidelines of the International Olympic Committee, and instead pillage the environment around the 2002 winter site. The host committee's original $6 million budget to protect the environment was sliced to $1.5 million. As a result, the clean air plan for public transportation to events was replaced by a massive fleet of gas-guzzling SUVs. Billionaire oilman, Earl Holding, once a member of the host committee, used his influence and money to sneak away with a land swap for his resort in the area, which raped the land, and was unnecessary for the Games.
While Holding hid behind his front man, Utah Sen. Orin Hatch, the only mention of the environment on opening night came when the son of Jacques Cousteau, France's famed advocate for the earth, joined a group of other global luminaries to march into the stadium with the Olympics five-circle banner. The next time we view an Olympics opening ceremony will be in Greece in 2004. I've talked with representatives of the Greek Olympics Committee, some of whom are at the Winter Games. One of their concerns is to arrange a system of security as effective as that at Salt Lake City. The United States, viewing itself on a war footing, went to extreme effort to guard against terrorist attack on the Winter Games.
Greece will not have comparable resources for vital areas such as security and environmental protection. Nor will it be able to stage opening ceremonies as spectacular and costly as those of recent Olympiads at richer venues. But the Olympics movement will best be served if the land where it all began chooses to open with a relevant program of sensitivity and understatement. Those are qualities that can escape the marketing gimmicks and environmental exploitation that mar the Salt Lake City Olympics.
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The most significant race in any borough this election day may be the contest for state Supreme Court being waged in Brooklyn by a judge who dared to defy the county's Democratic Party hacks. Margarita López Torres is the longest-serving judge on Brooklyn's civil court. She was the first Hispanic American woman to serve on that bench, where she won steady acclaim for bringing fairness and dignity to both the family and criminal branches.
Not even Republicans get elected to Supreme Court in Brooklyn without Democratic Party blessings. But López Torresdenied Democratic endorsement despite efforts on her behalf by all of the borough's leading reformersis running on the Working Families Party line and stands a fighting chance to win. Should she be elected, it will send a far clearer and stronger message about what's wrong with the judicial selection process than the strained and confusing indictments brought this month against party boss Clarence Norman by District Attorney Charles Hynes. López Torres's experience is an object lesson in how party politics corrupts, although what happened to her would never merit a grand jury charge.
López Torres, 52, would have moved up to Supreme Court long ago had she not run afoul of party leader Norman. She did this by declining to accept the party's choices to serve as her law secretary, an otherwise routine, if little-talked-about, transaction conducted by the Democratic organization. After picking the judges, the party then recommends assistantswhose $50,000-a-year jobs include scant heavy lifting, since the writing of most legal decisions is handled by a small pool of qualified aides in the court's legal department.
One of the party's choices was the fresh-out-of-law-school daughter of Brooklyn assemblyman Vito Lopez. Assemblyman Lopez is no relation to the judge, but he commands major clout within the party for the strength of his Bushwick clubhouse and his access to Albany patronage. The message relayed to the judge by the assemblyman's allies was that if she hired his daughter, she would have a good shot at a prized Supreme Court candidacy. This is the way things work on Brooklyn's bench.
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López Torres, however, declined. Another judge was not as choosy and, soon after hiring the daughter, he won the party's nod for the higher bench and was swiftly elected.
Lopez and Norman have both denied that this episode occurred, insisting that the selection of Lopez's daughter was strictly on the merits and that the elevation of the judge who did hire her was a mere coincidence. But another borough Democratic official, Ralph Perfetto, let the cat out of the bag in a letter mailed last month to all of his fellow district leaders.
"Last year I voted for Judge Torres, but this year I checked with two judges who were not candidates this year and four attorneys," wrote Perfetto. "They all labeled her an 'ingrate.' They told me that she courted Vito Lopez to support her for Civil Court, but then decided she didn't need him anymore and denied his daughter a job."
For having the temerity to do this, López Torres became a banned person in the party's highest circles. Her repeated requests to be interviewed for a Supreme Court slot were rebuffed by Norman's secretive judicial-selection panel, which said it accepted referrals only from the county leader himself. Then, up for re-election to her Civil Court post last year, she was denied official Democratic endorsementthe first time in anyone's memory that this had been done. López Torres ran anyway, winning re-election on her own and harvesting more votes than any other candidate.
Amid the headlines of this year's judicial bribery scandal and Hynes's much ballyhooed state grand-jury probe, Norman's organization ceded to some demands from reformers to open up its judicial selection process. It allowed the names of its hitherto secret panel for reviewing candidates to be made public. It also for the first time released the names of those candidates approved. Grudgingly, Norman's panel interviewed López Torres this summer, finding her qualified. But when the party's executive committee met last month to make its selections, the judge won only a handful of votes from rebels.
A few die-hards tried to place her name in nomination before the party's judicial convention, but this too was a doomed effort, producing only a small shoving match between Perfetto and reformer Alan Fleischman, a photo of which ran on the front page of The New York Times as emblematic of high-running tensions in a party under siege.
Despite her outcast status, however, López Torres will still be on next week's ballot. She will be there atop the slate of seven Supreme Court candidates running on Row E, the column allotted to the Working Families Party, the labor-backed activist organization that has cast itself as the progressive conscience of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party's official picks for the upper bench are barely visible in these last days before the election. They are presumably doing what Supreme Court candidates always do at this stage of the election process: relying on the party apparatus to turn out voters who will inevitably pull the Democratic lever, as they've done in every judicial contest for decades. But López Torres is doing what she did last year, campaigning on her own at subway stops and senior centers and pressing her literature into the hands of passersby. Last Wednesday morning she was in downtown Brooklyn, at the Court Street IRT station, offering her palm card to commuters and calling out in a soft voice that "It makes a difference who our judges are."
With her was Councilmember David Yassky, who represents Brooklyn Heights and Williamsburg and is one of the few elected Democratic officials to endorse her.
"Margarita is a top-quality judge who I would love to see on the bench," Yassky said as he introduced a constituent to López Torres. "Beyond that," he added, "what is at stake here is how we select judgesthe good way or the rotten way. Her election would make a powerful statement."
Yassky said the Democrats should adopt the Working Families method of having an independent panel select its judicial candidates. "I think what they did was show us how it should be done," he said.
Campaigning just a couple of blocks from the courts where she presides, López Torres encountered a steady stream of lawyers. One of them, Eric Poulos, a criminal defense attorney, said he had long been a supporter.
"I met her when I tried a case before her," he said. "I was surprised how civilized and reasonable she was. So many judges run their courtrooms like a jail. She is one of a kind. She doesn't rubber-stamp the authorities, whether they are the city's corporation counsel or the district attorney. She's one of the most independent judges, which is why the machine wanted to get rid of her."
Most observers see López Torres's election as a long shot. The straight-Democratic-ticket voting habits of those who bother to cast ballots in Brooklyn's judicial races are too entrenched to be overcome, they believe. Should she win, however, "it would be pretty amazing," said Assemblyman Jim Brennan, another longtime supporter. "It would mean that it broke through to the general public that a change is needed. It would be a wake-up call to the [Democratic] party's executive committee that they need a significant change in how they're operating."
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Great to hear you and your family are safe and well. You probably knew I got out of Benghazi by ship in late February! Good to see you supported the revolution. I knew you would! I've got a new job in Saudi Arabia starting very soon but if the BC re-opens I'd love to come back. Rob
When you stopped blogging, I saved on my hard disk your last posts referring (although carefully) to the revolution, just in case that things would go terribly wrong and you could decide to delete the blog for safety reasons. I am the sort of blogger too busy and careless to backup even her own posts :-), but I liked yours so much.
I thought that if things would go right instead of wrong, you would do well to write a book. You are an excellent writer, you have your blog that already could provide most of the pages, and I suppose publishers would be interested because the public now wants to know more about Libya. You have the advantage to be originally an American, which means you explain everything in a way understandable to Americans, which would not be the case with someone raised in Libya, no matter how excellent his English could be. I even thought about a suggested title: "Enchanted Woods: The Story of a Libyan Mother Born in the USA".
So, probably you could think again of the book.
Oh anonymous... I cried when I read your comment. How you took the time to back up my blog. Thank you my dear.
About the book - I love the title, but no, not yet. I just want to get back on my feet again and look forward to the future. I'll write a book one day - it's been a goal of mine for a long, long time. But not yet.
Thank you for this diary.
I've been following your blog for a long time, it helped me to understand the Libyan mentality.
I'm married to a Libian woman and we managed to flee in the first days of the revolution to my homeland, Portugal.
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I started this blog in 2005 but stopped for a number of years. Getting the occasional comment motivated me to write again. I try to blog about English teaching in Japan with an emphasis on teacher education. I am not the best writer in the world but I hope the content here might be useful to people who are interested in EFL in Japan. I usually have strong opinions about the issues I write about but because this blog is not anonymous, I try to avoid making statements that could cause a stir.
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The Problem with PPP
First, although a lot of teachers say that the field of Second Language Acquisition is completely useless for teaching, it does reveal a limitation of PPP. That is that learners acquire grammar structures (for example, the regular past tense) gradually after passing through various developmental stages. PPP might give the learners and teachers the false impression that learners should have mastered the particular grammatical structure after the presentation, practice and production. It is only through constant exposure and use that learners acquire a grammatical structure though.
This leads to the second and in my opinion the biggest limitation. In a PPP lesson, Learners and teachers might think that the goal of using English in class is to show that they know a particular structure but this could be counterproductive to their language learning. In my opinion, the most important goal for language use in the classroom is for learners to learn how to build their fluency in English and learn the communicative strategies necessary for them to make the best use of the knowledge that they have. As teachers, we also want learners to make the effort to learn from their miscommunications and errors to become more accurate and effective communicators. In other words, the major limitation of PPP could be that it leads learners and teachers to ignore the most important goals of communicative activities.
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Thanks, Jamie. Yes. PPP has some weaknesses. I understand that. Every method has its own weaknesses and disadvantages, too.
What is important for teachers is to know them and not to stick to only one method. I think the PPP based English class is more effective (not just efficient) than TBLT in junior and senior high school. But tasks should be also flexibly used depending on the purpose of the class. Actually, my English classes now are often task based ones. Yes. This is an interesting topic. We can continue over beer soon.
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- JH said...
Thanks for your comment. Let's talk about this over a beer or two or three.
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- مهراد ایرانی said...
I'm an English Learner in IRAN. I Learn English for get TOEFL to go to university in Canada.
From reading your blog, I got some information about Learning English in Japan.
Methods of Learning English in Japan better than Iran, because in IRAN, schools and universities don't pay attention to Learning English, and who want to Learn English, Should endeavor on him(her)Self and go to TOEFL classes and Learn English from a good teacher…
Fortunately, there are several nice recourses in the Web to Learn English. Such as: www.freerice.com that I think this is a very Good Method to learn Foreign Languages.
Also Seeing English Films can have a good influence on learning English.
In some countries, English teachers sometimes Show an English Movie (long movies or short movies, a movie of seminar, etc.) and then want from students that write the story of film and also their views about it.
I think this is a Good Method, too.
In IRAN it isn't usual. but is it usual in Japan schools?
And also I think that blogging in English is a good way to reinforcement English taught, but it's only suitable when Grammar learned nicely…
I want to start my English Blogging as soon as possible…
Best Wishes
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Dear مهراد ایرانی,
Thank you for your comment!
In Japan, it is hard to speak very generally about how English is taught; some teachers are good and care and others don't.
Usually when I use video, I use video that I myself made when I went to a different country. I think that most teachers at the secondary school level in Japan do not use video because they have to teach the textbook to prepare students for high school or university entrance exams. I would imagine that many university teachers do use movies, though.
I have tried blogging. As you said, I think it can work but sometimes you need to encourage students to pay a little more attention to the quality of their language (spelling and grammar).
Well, if you start an English language blog, please let me know.
Cheers. - 7:49 AM
- Poppy said...
I think PPP is a good strategy for older learners who have motivation to learn.
Otherwise my experience from ELD classes is that there are SO many different methods and approaches and of course none of them is perfect. A teacher should combine them in order to make the lesson relevant for the students.
Anyway, I'm still a student teacher, my experience consists of a 2-week teaching practice so maybe I should be quiet and talk about it in a few years. :) - 9:11 AM
I liked your article.It makes a teacher think over their method of teaching.
I agree with your proposition. It is the dominant method in our country as well.In many schools teachers use this method and as you said they forget about the goal of using english in class. The goal is not showing that you know this rule but using this rules to make our speech more meaningful and accurate. Students who have been taught by this method will certainly use it to teach their students in future. Of course it will not lead to good things ,I mean that they will not reach their goal.
Can you suggest anything to solve this problem? - 1:10 AM
- Tefl Jobs said...
Agreed Jamie,
I don't think PPP is a very good way to teach a language. The Japanese often won't speak English for fear of making mistakes. Language learning needs to be focused on communicating a message, not on being grammatically correct.
Best, Jon. - 3:49 AM
- Kazume said...
I'm not familiar with the PPP teaching method, but I can agree with you in this point. Since the era of TERAKOYA, private schools in the EDO period, it has been a standard procedure to teach the course of studies. The method has been utilized and attested as a powerful tool to "train" the students because it requires no autonomy of the individuals. Indeed, it has been proved to be an efficient way to train the students to response to the conventional problems, as in the training course utilized in the driving schools in Japan.
Contrary to the PPP teaching method, in my opinion, an idea of individual is highly respected in the western style one. It may naturally lead to the discussion based teaching style. The discussion based teaching style is highly effective to educate the "productive" students while the training based PPP teaching style may be effective to educate the "stereotyped" students.
In other words, if we want to train the students to ride a bicycle we should use the PPP teaching method, however, if we want to develop the ability of the students to find the solution of their future problems we should adopt the discussion based teaching style. Of course, I like the discussion based teaching style. ;-)
Kazume - 11:17 PM
- JH said...
Dear Kazume,
That is a great point. Perhaps our first job is to teach children how to rife a bicycle and after that teach them some tricks.
- yaling said...
Dear Jimbo,
This is the first time I visited your blog. What caught my attention was the title "The Problem with PPP". As I read along, I couldn't stop reading until the end.
I agree what you said that PPP does have big problem. I didn't realize what it is until reading your article.
In Taiwan, the lesson plan format is like that of Japan's kind. I am glad that you pointed out that the use of PPP might mis-lead the direction of learning language from communication goal.
Thank you very much for sharing.
Yaling, Taiwan - 9:23 PM
- English Teacher Brian said...
Good perspective. I start as an ALT soon in Japan. I'm also currently studying Japanese at a private school (classroom setting). I agree with you 100%.
In my class they also PPP...I see many weaknesses and struggle with it daily. However, I see many weaknesses with a classroom setting, as well.
Keep adjusting and keep flexible. Try to find your own way within the system you are forced to work.
Great blog! - 10:08 AM
Hey Jimbo,
I am in the process of getting my TEOSL/TEFL. I already have a BS and a MBA. I was looking to come to Japan to teach, but I hear the job market has dried up their for Native Speakers. Do you agree with this perspective or is it a buch of Bull?
Hopes of Teaching in Japan. - 10:09 AM
Presentation, Practice and Performance should be the framework for any commonsense teaching framework. It has certainly helped me a lot for developing lesson materials and lesson plans. It considers students, directs the stages of the class, and the Presentation aspect does not need to be a grammar structure.
Always though PPP stood for,
but gotta agree, it's an easy formula for the teacher and students to follow.
Most English teachers like me are entirely out of touch with what the J-learners already know, so it flounders unless a strict pseudo-structure is imposed on the classroom, and the PPP provides that (even if uni students are listening to a presentation about 1st year junior high grammar) - 3:06 AM


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- Release Date: Oct 11, 2006
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The inclusion of 62 total warriors is a massive achievement. Throw in a fun, albeit short Konquest mode, a diversionary mini-game, a new fatality system, and perhaps one of the largest character creation modes we've seen, and you have a great title that will keep Mortal Kombat fans busy for months.
The umpteenth Mortal Kombat game bombards you with characters and modes but does little to bring the underlying one-on-one fighting action to the next level.
The immense roster is a glorious thing, but by altering the sacred Fatality, the action just isn't up to the series' standards or what fans expect.
While I appreciate some of the new additions to this version, it's not enough to make me forget how much this game reminds me of "Deception," "Shaolin Monks" and "Deadly Alliance."
While much of the game play remains faithful to previous Mortal Kombat titles, the developers how gone to painstaking measures to bring new modes and interesting features to their franchise to keep it fresh like deli meat.
There are much better fighters out there to spend your time with.
GameProBut as good as the action is it's the replay value of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon that makes it unbelievable. There's so much to do outside the main arcade mode that you'll feel almost overwhelmed with choices. [Dec. 2006, p.115]
With over sixty playable characters, kreate-a-fighter, and all the mini-games packed in you get more than your money's worth. MK fans will drool with delight seeing some of their favorite fighters from every game packed into one arena.
A flawed fighting, racing, and adventure game that never ceases to provide enjoyment in spite of its flaws.
AceGamezMortal Kombat: Armageddon is without doubt the most comprehensive Mortal Kombat game ever.
Official Xbox MagazineBy adding muscle and dropping fat, Mortal Kombat feels tight and toned, just in time for the end of the Xbox world. [Dec. 2006, p.74]
Play MagazineIf this is Armageddon for Mortal Kombat, it certainly is a most delightful way to kill a series--at least until it rises like a phoenix for the next generation. [Dec. 2006, p.86]
Electronic Gaming MonthlyAs with the previous MK installment, Midway again augments the core fighting action with binus modes. Unfortunately, they suck. Konquest mode, a rudimentary action-RPG, and Motor Kombat, a widly unfun kart racer, both look and feel like PS1 budget titlees. [Dec. 2006, p.140]
The MK franchise signs off with somewhat of a whimper, albeit boosting the largest character list and few enhanced features here and there.
Armageddon delivers the culmination of all things MK. The roster is huge, the modes are many, the fighting has been nicely tweaked, and overall, it's a fitting way to turn the page on another generation of this classic franchise.
One hell of a fighting game. So to answer the question, Mortal Kombat has definitely gone out with a bang – for now.
The end result is a game that will satisfy neither hardcore fighting gamers nor casual players outside the core MK fanbase. This is a fan game to the core, and can only be recommended to the most devout of the MK faithful.
It may or may not be the blood-soaked ending to the franchise, but it's easily one of the most enjoyable games in the series and one of the most unapologetically fun games of the season.
Fourteen years after the first Mortal Kombat hit the arcades, the "fatality" moves are still gaming's best way of saying "In your face!" to a vanquished foe.
The possibilities are virtually endless.
Mortal Kombat Armageddon is the box-set of the Mortal Kombat series and just about every character ever digitalized for the series is available to use and of course abuse.
Forget storylines, or any pretence at one: this game is simply about quick reflexes and lightning-fast button- pounding.
Offering gameplay no different than other mindless brawlers, it's sad evidence that this once legendary game is most definitely mortal.
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One thing that continues to perplex me as I read through all my favorite quilting blogs is this infamous and somehow mysterious "stash" everyone is always talking about. I'll be the first to admit that I am a type A control freak in most areas of my life. Quilting appeals to me because of the symmetry of the patterns, the balance of colors, and the ability to have something beautiful come out of a distinct set of precise instructions.
Every project I've made so far was entered into with purpose. A specific color pattern was chosen, a design selected, and materials purchased thusly. The few scraps I have in my studio are remnants from previous projects. I definitely don't have enough scraps to create something fresh and new out of the leftovers, yet. I suppose that will change over time.
But blogger after blogger refers to the ever-growing stash of fabric in her collection. I'm stumped! Are you actually buying fabric for the sake of buying fabric with no purposeful intent?! If so, how do you decide what to collect? Do you stick to general color palettes? Do you have future projects in mind? How much yardage do you allow yourself to purchase of any given piece?
This is a completely unsettling train of thought for me. I'm imagining my next trip to my favorite quilting store. Aisle after aisle of cottony goodness. I have enough trouble narrowing down selections when I have a purpose, what on earth would I do with free reign?? I'd be worse than a kid in a candy shop. I'd have the fabric equivalent of the most horrendous gut ache of all time.
I'd love some feedback here. How would you describe your fabric shopping habits? I'm thinking I need to be going at this an entirely different way and would love a little hand holding. Teach me, oh wise ones.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Fabric stash: Fact or fiction?
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I actually just started quilting but I have been sewing for a while.
For the quilts I am only purchasing fabric IF I know what the project is going to be. I don't know enough about quilting and how much fabric to purchase if I don't even have a pattern in mind lol. I highly doubt I will start stashing fabric for quilts...my sewing on the other hand not so much lol. If I see a pretty piece of fabric I WILL buy it lol. If I don't know what I will make out of it, I get 3 yards. That is enough to do a lot of stuff lol.I'm with you. This "stash" idea is completely foreign to me. I will say that I have leftover fabric, but most of it is because I'm bad at math and used to buy way more than I ever needed. Unfortunately, most of it ugly fabric that I don't want to make anything with.
The stash concept exists in the yarn world, too. I will say that recently I've bought yarn without having a project in mind. But it's only been because I got a good deal. And yarn is easy to force into a project. But my husband would kill me if I had stashes of yarn like some of the knitters I know!


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First embroidery on the center piece
I started the embroidery on the adapted carnation in the center piece (I left out the two outer petals).
The stitch: coral stitch,
you find how it is done
Thread: Appleton wool, color 756
Saturday, November 26, 2011
The last block has been pieced
The nineth block top right.
The whole quilt laid out.
The arrows show the curves that expand from one block to another.
I hope that when the quilt is assembled, the blocks will fit like I planned.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Two more blocks, still one to go.
The top left block.
The top middle block.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Block 6 of 9 pieced
The bottom left block.
All sixth blocks laid together.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Piecing the fifth block, on the left of the center
This time I decided to eyeball and cut the curve of the last patch.
I drew along the edge of the cut curve. That line will be the guide for the pressurefoot.
With right sides together I stitched along the line. About every 3 stitches I stopped to adjust top and bottom fabric raising the pressurefoot if necessary.
After stitching it looks somewhat messy.
The seam is too curved to stay flat so I clipped it.
The patch is flipped and it looks OK now.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Two more blocks pieced
The block on the bottom right corner. This time I didn't use a straight stitch on the edge, but a very small zigzag (width 0,5 and langth 2,5), followed by a standard zigzag.
The fourth block right to the center block.
The four pieced blocks.
After three blocks I discovered a flowing line and I decided it would be nice to continue that line on the fourth block.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Block below the center pieced
The block below the center block is almost pieced. That lace looks pretty on that place.
It is not white, a kind of cream.
The block completely finished, I forgot to stitch the lace ;-$
Gradually I become more confident stitching curved seams.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Finishing off the center block
I basted along the 20 cm outline and zigzagged along the edge.
That bottom right patch doesn't look OK, so I unpicked the zigzag.
A vari-overlock stitch could be better.....no! Unpick...
A super-stretchstitch........no! Unpick...
I decided to do a simple straight stitch first and then a zigzag. That worked better.
That pink fabric is rather weird, depending upon the light it is light pink or dark pink, it doesn't stay flat when stitched, though it glows lovely. What fabric is that? Does anyone know?
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Piecing the center block part 2: curved seam
How do I sew a curved seam? First I studied this tutorial from
Allie Aller
But how do I get the 2 pieces I want to sew together exactly the same shape?
I thought a template could do the job. I made a template from sandpaper with 4 different shaped sides.
This is the shape I want for this patch. The edge of the template is the sewing line.
I drew a line about 1 cm right of the sewing line (width pressurefoot) and cut the patch. The edge of the patch will be layed along this line.
What if I sewed the patch this way (right sides together). I pinned the patch in place.
Flipped it...oops, this is not right.
The patch has to be cut in mirror image.
This looks better.
Sewed right sides together and opposite curves, the way Allie did.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Piecing the center block part 1
This is the center patch. I have already traced the pattern I want to embroider there.
This makes is easier to sew the encircling patches around this flower.
The first patch: sew......
and flip and iron flat.
The five patches form a pentagon in the shape of the flower.
This 20x20 cm window is very handy to see how the block will look in the whole quilt.
In the lower left corner I sew a little dark ochre patch, later I replaced it for another one because it was too dark. The picture doesn't show this clearly.
The lower right patch is a beautiful fabric, but it is too large. There I plan to sew a curved patch.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Stumpwork finish!
This is a stumpwork piece I embroidered a few years ago. Till last week I didn't feel like finishing it. The design is from "Inspirations".
You see here the used components: fabric for the back, a thin batting, a CD and a cord.
I put all on top of each other, made running stitches along the edge of the fabric and pulled it together. I sewed from one side to the other to stretch the backing tight over the CD.
The cord was pulled through the CD hole and the side of the backing.
I did the same for the front only using a thicker batting.
It looks somewhat chaotic on the back.
Then I placed the two parts on top of each other and sewed them together tightly.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
New project: pink quilt
I have been busy gathering stuff for my next crazy quilt.
It will measure 60 x 60 cm, so there will be 9 blocks.
Matching threads, beads and other stuff.
This is a design from the Australian magazine "inspirations".
I want to incorporate these lovely motives (or parts of them) in my quilt.
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