My Fabric Shack

About two years ago I tried the website “thing”. I lasted two months! Now, I do understand computers but my Heavens it was a lot of work. So time consuming! I applaud those who can run an on-line fabric store. You are an amazing and talented group. It takes a great deal of time and effort. My hat to goes off to you wonderful people.
I however am going in a different direction. One that will be on my blog, a new page for you to explore!

I would like to introduce you to my own little corner fabric store; know as

My Fabric Shack

Thank you to the amazing Madame Samm for making my button.


In my shack you will be dealing with me and just me.
I will work through emails and Paypal.

Stock will be changing all the time, so please come for a visit and see what
My Fabric Shack has to offer!!!

Just click on my shack in this post or on the button on my sidebar!

Thank you and Welcome!

Stupidity: The Cruellest of Human Cancers

"There are two infinite things: The Universe and human stupidity. And about the Universe, I am not that sure"

- Albert Einstein -

(1879-1955)

"Against stupidity, even the gods fight in vane"

- Johann Wolfgang Goethe -

(1749-1832)

"The true stupidity always triumph over the artificial intelligence"

- Terry Pratchett -

"The stupidity is the talent to err"

- Edgar Allan Poe -

"The stupidity, by the way, is a product of the will"

- Aldous Huxley -

"The human stupidity is the only thing that gives us an idea of the infinite"

- Ernest Renan -

"Nothing in this world is more dangerous than the sincerely ignorance

and the conscious stupidity"

- Martin Luther King -

"There will always be convinced suicides, homeless prowling in the sides of stupidity and human vanity, desperate to seek salvation and try to buy the houses in the industry, wealthy couples whose reason for existence is the competition with other wealthy marriage, slaves of literary fashions mired in perplexity and anxiety, oblique beings for whom life is tangential, people who should be killed, and someone who dreams of a castle in Ireland"

- Isidoro Blaisten -

"Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading"
- G.M. Trevelyan -
(1876 - 1962)
English social History (1942)

"There is no major and most common silliness that to become embittered

by the silliness of the world"

- Baron De Montesquieu -

"All the brains in this world are impotent against any stupidity that is fashionable"

- Jean de la Fontaine -

"Killing is an stupidity. Never should be done anything

that can not be speak at the dinner table"

- Oscar Wilde -

"We are all avatars of the past stupidity"

- Fernando Pessoa -

"Get all the fools by your side and you may be elected to anything"

- Friedrich Von Schiller -


"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated"
- Alec Bourne -

"The two most abundant elements of the universe are the hydrogen and the stupidity"

- Harlan Ellison -

"The Art is the rebellion of man before the evil stupidity of the everyday events"

- Alejandro Dolina -

"There are more fools in this world than people"

- Heinrich Heine -

"It is dangerous to be sincere, unless of course, you are also stupid"

- George Bernard Shaw -

"THE PROBLEM WITH THE WORLD IS

THAT THE STUPID ARE CONFIDENT ABOUT THEMSELVES

AND THE INTELLIGENT ARE FULL OF DOUBTS"

- BETRAND RUSSEL -

Birdie Stitches Block of the Month ~~ January

I spent a lot of quite and thoughtful time this weekend. I was able to finish my first block for the

Birdie Stitches Block of the Month





Wow, I have been away from embroidery a little too long. I need to work on my skills. I hope by the 12th month to have it all back again!! But this was such fun and I did learn a few things on the way. I used 4 strands of floss, a stabilizer to hide my mess and variegated pink floss for my bird. As you can see I have made my block for February. I did stitch a 1/8 inch seam all around the border to avoid fraying.

Come on February!!

DOGON: The Tribe That Stunned The World

Here is the promoting video for my 3-part documentary of the Dogon Tribe: "Dogon: The Tribe that Stunned the World".

Part I - http://sirius-bridge.blogspot.com/2010/10/dogonthe-tribe-that-stunned-world.html

Part II -http://sirius-bridge.blogspot.com/2010/10/dogon-tribe-that-stunned-world-part-ii.html

Part III - http://sirius-bridge.blogspot.com/2010/10/dogonthe-tribe-that-stunned-world-last.html

Photos by Peter Howard - African Natural Heritage

Music: "The Gravel Road" by James Newton Howard from the movie "The Village"

Enjoy!

Cosmic Web of Thought.wmv

As we have seen in previous articles about the sacred geometry and it relation with many cultural symbols in the world, in this video I have prepared a travel for you, a travel in the immensity of the Universe and in the transcendental Cosmic web of human thought. Enjoy it. =D

Music

"Death is the Road to Awe" of Clint Mansell from the movie "The Fountain"

Video

From the movies "Contact", "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "The Fountain".

A little me time…

You know how that is~~~~ sometimes you just need a little me time……
Time to think…
Time to wonder….
Time to plan...
Time to read a good book, watch a good movie, or sew.
Not long, just an hour or so; and when you come back you are refreshed and renewed and rearing to go.

I was home alone for a few hours today, so I did not clean, or do laundry, or cook. (I know Elaine, I do not cook anyway)!!!

SOOOOO......

I decided to sew…sew something fun and new.

It has been quite a while since I have embroidered, but thanks to Kaaren, I have found out that I still can stitch.

Well, Corey at Little Miss Shabby is hosting a BOM called Birdie Stitches. It is sooo darling!!!! I am giving this month a try. I am using all fabrics from my stash. Two charm packs of “Oh, Cherry, Oh” and other scraps I have been saving.

This is the first block. The hardest part for me was tracing the design!!

Now I am off to pick floss colors and see if I really can still embroider.

Take a peek at this adorable BOM!!

What I am working on.....

I am really not sure how much of this quilt I have shown you but it is the 9 Patch, Make one a day Quilt by Crazy Mom Quilts . Yes I am late but I still kept going and this is now where I am…..

I had the top done and now it was time to add the little 2 1/2 inch squares to make the border.

I had an extra jelly roll of the fabric I used; Berry Delicious by Moda.



I decided to make strip sets from the fabric.

I came up with quite a few sets.

It was time to cut them into 2 1/2 inch squares, so I pulled out my Accucut studio 2 1/2 inch strip die and got to work!

I layered the strip sets horizontally on the die and cranked.

This is what I made!

Now I can sew them end to end to make the border.




Super fast and an easy way to add a lot of squares together!

Border on!!
Off to layer and pin!