November UFO #3 Twice as Nice – an Eleanor Burns Design

| December 1, 2011

It is that time again – the day to post our November UFO FINISH.  Judy Laquidara of Patchworktimes.Com picked #3 on our UFO list for us to complete for November – and I did it!  Here it is – my TWICE AS NICE QUILT.   This Eleanor Burns Pattern is interesting – three quilts from ONE [...]

Cakes are DONE, People are FINISHED – what about QUILTS – are they DONE DONE?

| May 30, 2011

While conducting  research at CAL STATE UNIVERSITY for my thesis, I was testing the memory of older and younger adults for learning new word processing procedures.  One morning, I peeked into the laboratory cubicle and very politely asked one of my research participants,  ”Are you done, Mrs. _____”? SHE (being an 85 year old retired [...]