Looks like we can use an open thread!
I will also take this opportunity to let you guys know that we have a couple of quilt raffles for Ukraine coming up. With these two raffles, we hope to bring our thermometer in the sidebar to $100,000.
The quilts are from Quiltingfool.
The two raffles will be going on at the same time, but raffle tickets will be specific the specific quilt. I will be putting the images of the quilts up in a day or two, but I wanted to give you a heads up.
This time the quilts will be lap quilts rather than full-sized quilts for a bed.
Each raffle ticket will be $25 each.
First prize will obviously be the quilt that is being raffled off. But each raffle will also have 2nd and 3rd prizes.
2nd prize: (this is an unfinished version)
Third prize:
Interested people can purchase as many or as few raffle tickets as they like.
Back to the open thread!
narya
Adding this to the new thread (it’s also at the end of the previous thread): For you jigsaw puzzle lovers, I started doing these. No, not as satisfying as doing meatspace puzzles (which I have loved since I was very young), but I don’t end up with More Stuff. Plus, cats can’t get to them.
Those quilts are GORGEOUS.
karen gail
Love the new direction quilts are going, when I learned back in the 1960’s everything was hand done and reworked old patterns.
Mike in Pasadena
After President Biden wipes the floor with his opponents, first line of Wash Post’s headline is, “When Joe Biden lost. . .” Our liberal media at work to elect trumpty dumpty for another massive tax give away to the obscenely wealthy owners of America.
WaterGirl
@narya: I think I had that jigsaw game on my first iPad. it was fun.
TBone
PSA Turner Classic Movies is going hard for Black History Month and I am so here for it! And damnit I want a quilt so bad but if I get any more bedding in this house (a strange weakness I have), hubby will move out. I’ll tithe in another manner for aid to Ukraine.
WaterGirl
@TBone: Thanks for the reminder – I should have said that these are lap quilts, rather than full bed-sized quilts.
TBone
@WaterGirl: ooooooh danger, danger! I feel a strong urge! Will be watching for link and hopefully not bankrupting myself 🤣
JeanneT
I need a quilt for my bedroom wall, so I’ll be in on this!
Another Scott
Yay Quiltingfool! She does amazing work. Looking forward to the raffle.
Meanwhile, …
So much winning…
Keep hammering them on these real-life pocketbook items, while also talking about their meanness and incompetence.
Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
trollhattan
@Another Scott: That’s a typo, they’re going to prevent trans folks from owning TransAms. “Y’all can drive a Prius, hear?”
NotMax
Nutso but harmless friend (Independently wealthy, able to function somewhat okay except when off his meds) lived by himself in the sprawling family home on a farm in Pennsylvania. Family had settled there in the 1640s.
Anyhoo, to get back to the topic, in the attic there were several large cedar chests which contained carefully folded quilts from as far back as the 17th and 18th centuries. At one point when he was not firing on all cylinders he decided it would be a fine idea to drag them out and spread them around on the floors of various rooms as throw rugs.
twbrandt
I live in Dearborn, Michigan, where the police have been placed on alert after the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece calling Dearborn calling the city “America’s Jihad Capital”. It is true that Dearborn has a slim (51%) Muslim majority, and the Muslim community here is very upset with the Biden Administration’s Middle East policies. But calling it the “Jihad Capital” is completely untrue, bigoted, and inflammatory. Assholes.
Alison Rose
@Another Scott: I haven’t been to Florida in almost 15 years, but from what I recall of the drivers there, this doesn’t shock me.
Mike in Pasadena
@Another Scott:
@Another Scott: And high insurance rates in Florida are Joe’s fault. Inflation, you know.
Mike in Pasadena
@twbrandt: That is an incredibly rotten story angle and misuse of language.
Another Scott
@NotMax: Yikes!
:-(
But it reminds me of long ago seeing a story about rug weavers somewhere over in central Asia. Once they were done making them on the loom, they would drag them out and throw dirt and mud all over them and grind it in, then rinse them off and dry them. It made them look more “authentic” or something.
:-/
I’ve come to the conclusion that, ultimately, it’s just stuff. It’s better for stuff to be used than to be just locked up in a box somewhere.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
trollhattan
Since midnight we’ve accumulated 1.19 of the predicted “New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.” And it’s just lunchtime.
Glug.
Baud
@twbrandt:
WSJ is a Republican paper. Can’t be surprised when they act like it.
twbrandt
Why do I only see the typos after the edit window has closed?
WaterGirl
@twbrandt: It’s an immutable law of nature.
It’s like the tides. Tide goes in, tide goes out, no one knows why. //
Elizabelle
Quiltingfool: Might you be persuaded to make a few more Patrons? For pillows, framed art, even lap blankets?
I love that little doggie.
schrodingers_cat
@WaterGirl: Newton knows.
Elizabelle
@trollhattan: Hope you and yours stay safe. All that rain and SoCal do not mix well.
trollhattan
@Elizabelle:
Thanks!
So far we’re fine. Wind probably more the issue than the wet stuff.
Glad to not be in the mountains, though!
https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/loc/d3/hwy50atechosummit.htm
TBone
Ass Road Truckers update!
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/dipshit-vigilante-truckers-reach
TBone
@trollhattan: snort!
NotMax
@TBone
Mission Assomplished!
And that banner. February 3th? Oy vey.
TBone
@NotMax: now I’m crying because. Old, old farmhouse that relatives recently had to clean out for sale with chests of quilts and every other doodad imaginable under the sun stuffed under its eaves (they didn’t have dumpsters or garbage truck service back in the day) was hard on us. Thankfully, some of great grandma’s hand sewn quilts, lace, and embroidery were given to me. As well as paperwork including a Massachusetts Bay Colony document and many family property deeds going back to Freetown, MA (Assonet Village) where an ancestor named Lot may have owned a tavern. Damn. One of the deeds mentions King George. And old, OLD correspondence from ancestors (one a whaler who listed all the nations he’d eaten his bread in and who admonished his descendants with Balaams Prayer and another who gives an account of traveling West in a covered wagon). Tears of loss and of joy. Damnit. Who TF walks on a quilt?!
TBone
@NotMax: 😘
TBone
@NotMax: that guy might be a relative 🤣 it’s a small world after all.
Mark L.
one of the better uses of quilts, Mono Neon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28RRvHwbR3U&list=RD28RRvHwbR3U&start_radio=1
TBone
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NDq36YD1ESM
Another Scott
@TBone: “February 3th”.
[ rofl!! ]
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
Normally award shows not my bag (Tonys excepted). Isn’t tonight the
GrammyTaylor Swift awards show?Have an inkling Kid Rock will not be honored.
;)
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@TBone: yeah, we watched When We Were Kings documentary last night and it was just as good as I remembered from seeing it a long time ago. Won an Academy award for best documentary. For those who don’t know, it covers the legendary Ali-Forman fight in Zaire, the “rumble in the jungle”. Talking heads include Norman Mailer and George Plimpton, as well as music by BB King and lots of interviews with Ali.
TBone
@Another Scott: proofer was on smoke (crack) break.
TBone
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): fuck Don King! I had to read up on him after watching that last night 🤢 Other than him, it’s an amazing history documentary and pure entertainment at the same time film. I once met Joe Frazier in a law office.
Yutsano
@TBone: I implore you: PLEASE let us know that a link is paywalled. I’m not signing up for his Substack just to read the occasional article that gets posted on here. It’s not just you, but it happens often enough that I needed to say something. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Another Scott
@Yutsano: It’s not – I was able to read it without subscribing. It’s worth a click.
Cheers,
Scott.
TBone
https://www.phillytrib.com/news/joe-fraziers-lasting-legacy/article_7734118b-40a4-5875-93c0-5b13737872de.html
Alison Rose
@Yutsano: On most Substacks, the pop-up has a “continue reading” option just below the subscribe button. Just click that and it goes away and you can read the whole thing.
TBone
@Alison Rose: thank you, I was just drooling over a neighbor’s new golden retriever PUPPY oh dear LORT they named her Maui too
TBone
@Another Scott: laughtivism!
MomSense
These are so beautiful!
I would be willing to knit something as a raffle for Ukraine. I need to wait a month or so until my life settles a bit. I could do a blanket, dog sweater, something for baby, hat, mittens/gloves, cowl, and/or scarf.
MomSense
@NotMax:
OH NO!
Edmund dantes
I can vouch for quilting fools quilts. I used her to make one for my Ukrainian friend and it turned out amazing. Pleasure to work with her.
FelonyGovt
Those quilts are spectacular.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: Unless you’re using Safari, in which case (at least for me) it can’t handle it properly, so I copy the link into Chrome where it shows me the rest of the article.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: That would be awesome!
Just get in touch with me whenever things have settled down for you.