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Double Thanks Carol!!!…

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Last night, Carol Van Zandt gave members of the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild some fabrics from her new line called “Licorice Fizz” from Andover Fabrics.
THANK YOU CAROL!!!

Licorice Fizz

I especially like the black and light grey fabrics that look like faces. They reminded me of the soot characters from Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away.

Bou Nezumi

I looked online to see what they were called… and I discovered that a toy rat–which has been driving me crazy trying to figure out what anime he was from–is Bou Nezumi from Spirited Away!!!

THANKS AGAIN CAROL!!!… The soot characters, by the way, are called Susuwatari.

Coded Paragraph at PIQF 2012

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My quilt “Coded Paragraph” will be shown at the New Quilts of Northern California exhibit at the Pacific International Quilt Festival in the Santa Clara Convention Center (Santa Clara, California) from October 11-14, 2012. More information on their website.

Showing my (almost completed) quilt top at the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild meeting...

Here are a few photos of my quilt’s progress on Flickr.

I’ve never been to PIQF and this is the first time I had a quilt accepted to be shown at an “International” quilt show… so I don’t know exactly what to expect. I heard that is a large show and you can easily spend most of the day there.

Please come if you have the chance. I’ll try to make it there Saturday, and maybe return Sunday if I don’t get to see everything.

Hibiscus Cutting

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I got this Hibiscus cutting from my nephew’s girlfriend (thanks Kriselda).

I soaked it for a bit because it looked so dry and I didn’t think it would grow… but I see what I think are little growth along the stem.

Hibiscus Cutting

There are no instructions on the package and I don’t know what direction to plant it. One end has wax and the other is just bare. I think the wax side it up, but I’m not sure.

Anyone know what I should do?

Quilt-related DVDs

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I just rented two quilt-related DVDs from Netflix and found some others that may be interesting:

– America Quilts (2008)
– Amish & Mennonite Quilts Across America (2008)
– A Century of Quilts: America in Cloth (2006)
– The Art of Quilting (2001)
– Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

Induction Cooktop Query…

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Does anyone use or have used an Induction Cooktop… like a NuWave Induction Cooktop, this one by Duxtop ( link to Amazon ) or something similar?… I was just curious how well they worked and if they are as good as the commercials makes them look. Thanks.

What kind of grass is this?

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My friend has this grass in her front yard… Now that our lawn is turning slightly brown, I’m considering switching it to this type of lawn which I believe is less maintenance. The grass leaves are wide and it remains low growing, almost growing horizontally.

Does anyone know what kind of grass this is?

What kind of grass is this?

Orange Butterfly…

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As I was working in our front yard garden, I saw this orange butterfly visiting our Shasta Daisies. I don’t recall ever seeing this type of butterfly.

Anyone know what kind it is?
[Update] This was identified as a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae).

Unknown Orange Butterfly

Photos from the EBMQG May Meeting…

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I was finally able to upload photos from May’s East Bay Modern Quilt Guild meeting onto my Flickr site.

Here’s the photoset: “EBMQG – May 2012 Meeting“… or you can click below to view a slideshow.

Stacey who normal runs the monthly meetings is in Virginia for a couple months, so Lauren ran the May meeting. Here are notes from the meeting: eastbaymodernquiltguild.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/may-meeting-sans-stacey/