Filament Fantasy

I am back. Okay, so I am not a regular blogger but I plan to do better in the future. I completed a class called Filament Fantasy offered at Quilt University. The teacher is Linda Schmidt and she has a very good lesson plan - plenty of follow-up in the Discussion Forum and posts in the Gallery. This is my third Quilt U class and my second with Linda. This class encourages you to use the collection of pretty threads, foils, beads in your stash.



I have posted all of the individual blocks in my Picasa album http://picasaweb.google.com/stootle13/FilamentFantasy . Here is a look at the finished quilt.

The picture doesn't show the beads attached to the binding that were hand sewn. I gained confidence using the host of threads I have collected over the years.

Year of the Pig

Okay, my other favorite thing is food. Today I went to lunch with a few coworkers and we celebrated Chinese New Year. It is the Year of the Pig - a good year for having children. Isn't this a cute picture?

We dined on a feast of ten dishes - whole fish, Bejing Duck, BBQ pork, chicken and duck, Chinese brocolli, shrimp and scallops, BBQ beef with pineapple, baby bok choy with mushrooms and dried tofu, fried whole shrimp (heads and feet), pickled something, and a few other dished I don't remember - what can I say except it was wonderful. I am an adventurous diner so this was like heaven to me. My Chinese friends were so happy and proud to share this with the rest of us. Great time.

Hold on a sec, Mer is coming back to life. Oh no, it's her mom that's dead and Mer is not ordinary. Sniff, sniff. Sorry - Grey's Anatomy. If you watch it, you understand.

In the Beginning...

It's 2:00 on a Sunday morning and I am writing my first entry in my first blog. I read my friends and friends of my friends blogs' and I decided to write my musings and share my creations with the world too. We shall see. I am sleepy now so I will see you later. I have a repair man coming in a few hours to give me an estimate on replacing my mailbox (need those bills) and some other projects around the house.