Today is a beautiful day. It was incredibly windy and rained on and off, mostly off until the evening came. It was blustery, a real Winnie the Poo blustery kind of day you might even say!
My husband and I both got new computers this week. Both our hard drives on our old computers blew out about the same time and threw us into fits. So off we went to buy new ones. We both got the same make and model, HP Pavilion 8 GB memory, 1 T HD, ...phew ~ that is a mouth full! What all that means is they are fast and they are wonderful!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
The Direction We Go In...
This poem is a favorite of mine I first read in the 1970's...
But to every mind there openeth,
A way, and way, and away,
A high soul climbs the highway,
And the low soul gropes the low,
And in between on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth,
A high way and a low,
And every mind decideth,
The way his soul shall go.
One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
'Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.
Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
'Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
Edna Wheeler Wilcox, 1916
Free Motion Machine Quilting
Free motion machine quilt is an art form of freedom of expression where the possibilities are limitless. If you can imagine it you can sew it! The photo on the right shows the front side of a teapot trivet I made for my friend and neighbor Lora. I used a copper metal trivet for design inspiration.
The photo on the left shows the backside and reveals the teapot's details more clearly. A small project like this one is an excellent beginner project for free motion machine quilting.
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