When I started the microspool charm quilt journey, I was aiming for 1600 spools...this could be organized as a 40 by 40 quilt that would be 60 inches square. I have been sewing like crazy and finally completed all 1600 microspools...half dark and half light. The ones shown above are the duplicates I found when I sorted through the spools. And yes, there are even duplicates in the duplicates (look for the gold).
Molly rightfully scoffed at me because 60 inches square would not even be large enough to make a horse blanket for Buddy. So now we are going to aim for something more in the 70 by 90 inch range and this means I'm going to need roughly 400 more light spools and 300 more dark spools.
And if you are wondering if there is anything thriving after our Portland heat dome, here you go. This is the first year for this artichoke. Around here people tend to grow them for decoration, and so I'm going to let this go to bloom too. Also, if any of you know of any recipes for changing zucchini and cucumbers into fabric, please let me know.
Meanwhile, Molly would like to report some recent bot activity on our blog. I got a comment (held by moderation) on a blog post for September 15, 2018 featuring the Bitcoin quilt top (also known as whatchamacallits and originating with Cathy at Sane, Crazy, Crumby Quilts). The comment said the blog post violated Bonnie Hunter's copyright on her new pattern called Bitcoin. The comment said I should take the post down because I included block measurements. At first, I thought it was written by a human who accidentally didn't notice that it doesn't even have the same construction and only shares a name...that given the general popularity of Coin quilts...is an obvious "modern" quilt name.
And, of course, Buddy thinks it should be called Dogecoin.
In any case, I had to agree with Molly that the comment was made by a bot, because only a robot would assume that time travel back to 2018 is possible. A human making the comment would undoubtedly ask why I used time travel to make a quilt instead of going back to prevent the birth of Hitler.
It does seem a rather frivolous use of time travel.
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Oh, so much to this post. First, I did try making apricots into fabric and it didn’t work, so maybe you’ll have better luck with zucchini and cucumbers. And how does Buddy pronounce dogecoin? My guess is he forgoes the standard pronunciation and says “doggycoin” instead. And when are you going to see a specialist about letting a perfectly good artichoke go to bloom?
ReplyDeleteSo what size bits and pieces of lights and darks should we start sending you? Seems like you'll need an infusion of scraps if you're going to keep them all unique. Of course, if you don't plan on finishing the quilt in the next decade, you can continue to collect them on your own. I am surprised that supervisor Molly doesn't catch the duplicates, but maybe she just enjoys making you search for them.
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Very interesting comment on something years ago. Never know what to expect in cyberspace. Love the spools. Not sure I could accomplish something like that. Hope you are out of the heatwave. The only thing Tugger, the cat in residence, knows about the internet is how to walk on the keyboard when I am working and knocking the iMac around rubbing his head on it.
ReplyDeleteLet us know if you want donations for the spools. We WILL share.
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