Shirley Anne’s Heart

Posted By drsao on June 7, 2011

Do you like mind games, riddles, cognitive puzzles?  I LOVE THEM.  When I was living in CA I had a New Year’s Eve party and I spent DAYS making up mind games for people to play.  I had a GREAT TIME preparing the cognitive fun – but – well, let’s just say that my guests were NOT AMUSED!    My best CA friend suggested that while my games were “interesting” that perhaps I had picked the wrong activity for a NYE party.  SIGH.

Hey – just try this one……..the answer will be at the bottom of this post

Time Time Time

 

The Weather

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I also LOVE WORDS and almost every day I post a word from Dictionary.com on my FACEBOOK PAGE.  A few days ago the word was  PANGRAM – and here is the post that I put on FACEBOOK.  Does anyone remember typing  this sentence when they learned to type?

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG.

 

This is a PANGRAM – a sentence that uses every letter in the alphabet!  Here is the definition from dictionary.com

pangram \PAN-gruhm\, noun:

A sentence, verse, etc., that includes all the letters of the alphabet.

Formerly Utopianna, the country’s name was changed in 1904 to honor native son Nevin Nollop, the author of the popular pangram sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

— Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea: a novel in letters

So I issued a challenge and LOOK WHAT MY QUILTER FRIEND KATHY POSTED!  LOVE IT KATHY!

The azure quilt excited the unkempt crowd but I found the green one to be just lovely.

My daddy also took the challenge and just now sent me a great sentence as well (and I am still chuckling about the pink vest!)

After I go to the zoo to see the big Jaybird,foxes, and monkeys; I will quickly go down town to buy a new pink vest.

 

ANYONE ELSE UP FOR A COGNITIVE CHALLENGE?  I sure am having fun?

 

Answer to sao’s Cognitive Puzzle

Time after Time after Time

 

Under the Weather

 

Going  Downhill

 

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Posted By drsao on June 6, 2011

What is on my DESIGN WALL – AKA Design Floor this week?

It is the beginnings of Judy Laquidara’s design – “DANDELION PARADE” and the pattern is free on her website at www.patchworktimes.com.  If you go to her website you can also see this quilt in another colorway!  I love Judy’s designs – and especially the pieced borders!

Mine is called Patriotic Dandelion Parade because it is being made with all scrappy red, whites and blues…….so it is a STASHBUSTER for sure.  I have only made two blocks but I am really liking it.  It will be donated to QUILTS OF VALOR.

Go look at

http://www.patchworktimes.com/2011/06/06/design-wall-monday-june-6-2011/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatchworkTimes+%28Patchwork+Times+by+Judy+Laquidara%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

to see what is on the DESIGN WALL of other quilters this week!

 

 

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Posted By drsao on June 1, 2011

I finished the top of my May UFO for the PATCHWORK TIMES 2011 Challenge…..it is a wall hanging complete with embroidery and little pearls sewn on.  I will be hand quilting it – but for now it is COMPLETED!

Here is a close up of the SNOWFLAKE  ANGEL

 

I KNOW that I should have waited to sew on all of those tiny pearls AFTER it was quilted – but I just couldn’t wait to see how it was going to look…..SO TA DA……I did it!

Our June UFO # is 8 – I am going to run and look at my list to see what I will be working on next month!

 

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Posted By drsao on June 1, 2011

Did you KNOW that June 1st is FLIP A COIN DAY?  I never knew that until my “COMPUTER TOLD ME.”

In fact, we probably never knew half  of what we know now before computers were in common use!  Whatever did we do when we needed to look up a word – or figure out in what order all of the As and Es go when spelling caesarean section!?  Oh yes, the dictionary!

Yes, June 1st is FLIP A COIN DAY.  I wonder who started this.  These days someone CALLS the winner….whether it be Heads or Tails.  ORIGINALLY Julius Caesar used this method to make decisions (or so the rumor goes!)   Since HIS HEAD was on one side of the Roman coin – HEADS WAS ALWAYS THE WINNER!

Roman Coin

AND ANOTHER THING….while “WE” are on the subject of Julius Caesar……it is rumored that he was born via caesarean section 100/102 BC.

 

HOWEVER, according to an internet source,

Bindusara (Born c. 320 BC, ruled: 298 – c.272 BC) , the second Mauryan emperor of India after Chandragupta Maurya the Great, is said to be first child born by surgery. His mother, wife of Chandragupta Maurya, accidentally consumed poison and died when she was close to delivering him. Chanakya, the Chandragupta’s teacher and advisor, made up his mind that the baby should survive. He cut open the belly of the queen and took out the baby, thus saving the baby’s life.

 

HISTORY LESSON OVER – but if you get a chance, flip a coin today – don’t we all love to celebrate a holiday!????

 

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Posted By drsao on May 30, 2011

This week I am ready to sew all of my 120 log cabin blocks together…..they are made from 1 1/2″ strips for the dark side of the blocks…..and 1″ strips for the light.  YES YOU READ RIGHT – I SAID THE LIGHT STRIPS ARE 1″ WIDE!  This makes it look curvy.

YES 120 of these TINY BLOCKS are ready to be sewn together and are happily waiting on my DESIGN FLOOR.

Curved Log Cabin Blocks

When I get them together, it will look like this….I call it Augusta Cole’s quilt because I took a class from her to learn to make the curved log cabin blocks.  The layout that I am using is actually designed by Augusta’s first teacher,  Karen Pervier.  Augusta has the pattern for sale!  I just love it.

 

Now my HOPE is that I can get these blocks all lined up going in the correct orientation……I am directionally challenged, so this could be a LONG WEEK!  LOL  Seriously, I had to get both my SIL and my grandangels to help me lay out my LOG CABIN BLOCKS when I made a barnraising pattern.

 

Here is my BARN RAISING QUILT……I gave it to my son and daughter in CA – so I named it CALIFORNIA BARN RAISING!

It is my FIRST QUILT –  made

in March, 2007.  TA DA…

California Barn Raising Quilt

 

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