Dad was in town yesterday, so I took advantage of having access to a vehicle to go round a few places over on Blenheim Road and investigate wood burners (as my one has been declared too old to live by the dreaded ECAN, so I need to replace it before next winter or face a…
There is a type of tiny quilt that is commonly called a “mug rug”. Except, in my house apparently it would be more appropriately called a “cat mat”. “What? It looked comfortable.” I have decided that Parsnips follows a definite set of rules when deciding whether to sit on something: Truth condition Probability of cat…
ust very very busy. I’ve got a month to go before my final project is due for my LING paper, and it’s absorbing almost every spare moment. I am trying to stick to my rule of at least taking an afternoon off every weekend so I can catch up with friends or do something relaxing,…
ent to the Whole House Reuse auction last night with two of the CEISMIC team. It was a bit of a last minute thing – we’d talked about going to the auction way back when the project first started and we were archiving the catalogue of parts, but only realised yesterday morning that the auction…
irst term of the semester is over, and I handed my first big assignment in yesterday, so I can pause and relax – well, for a couple of days, at least. I’ve got another assignment due in three weeks, so I’ll have to work on that over the break. And of course, I’ll still be…
espite appearances, I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth. I’ve just been kind of busy. Semester started two weeks ago, and it was very much a case of straight in the deep end as far as workload goes. I’m loving the course though – it’s much more hands-on than the last paper I…
An exciting wee parcel waiting for me in the letterbox when I got home tonight (luckily well-wrapped, so it survived the day’s rain/hail/sleet/general horribleness of weather) – a pack of “charm squares” (little sample-sized pieces of fabric – no idea why they’re called charm squares, but it seems to be the standard term in quilting…
Christchurch people (and anyone else who just likes to help preserve cool historic things): If any of you have fond memories of visiting the telescope in the Arts Centre Observatory on a Friday night, you might want to contribute to this fundraiser to help restore the telescope. It was badly damaged when the building collapsed…
First page of my Cool Cats birthday colouring book: As soon as I saw that face, I just had to colour him to look like Raji! (I don’t know if I got his markings exactly right, Mum, but don’t you agree that’s totally a Raji expression he’s got on his face???)
ust got back from town, where I bought myself a birthday present. If I tell you it was small, very expensive, and made of metal, I’m sure some of you will be thinking jewellery. Nope, sorry to disappoint you, but it’s actually a quilting foot for The Beast. I’ve been using a darning foot for…