Sew Katie did: Messing with Magic Numbers: “Magic numbers can make improvisational quilt construction that seems impossible a little more within reach.”
Seemingly random squares and rectangles all fit together. Looks like something I want to try someday.
Category Archives: Art
“Career Implies I Had A Career Plan”
Eye Candy
Take a look at these animated MRIs of a pineapple, an orange, and a bushel of bananas:
Animated MRI Scans of Fruits are Hypnotic, High in Fiber.
Update: Many more of these can be found at Insideinsides.
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Anthology of Deep Sea Squids. Amazing foootage!
Luke Jerram’s Glass Microbiology:
“These transparent glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena. Jerram is exploring the tension between the artworks’ beauty, what they represent and their impact on humanity.”
Links via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
Finished Quilt Top
After at least ten hours of sewing yesterday, my first full-size quilt top is finished!
It’s about 150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in), and the pattern is called Plain Spoken. It’s from Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr‘s book The Modern Quilt Workshop.
The colours of this quilt were inspired by the colours in our living room, especially the couch, pillows and the table runner:
Now I’ve got to make up my mind about the backing fabric (I’m also going to include at least one row of the front pattern, since I had to re-sew four of them because of a difference in seam allowance), the binding and the thread colour and pattern for the quilting. Any suggestions?
The Plain Spoken quilt pattern seems to be very popular – take a look at other people’s Plain Spoken quilts on Flickr or Dioramarama’s Modern Quiltalong. There also is a Flickr group with photos of other quilts from The Modern Quilt Workshop, the Modern Quilt-Along.
(Wow, three posts in one day, that’s more than I usually manage to do in a month these days!)
Great photos
Two great photo links on MetaFilter today:
Georg Gerster aerial photography.
From his website:
“Georg Gerster was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, on April 30th, 1928 […]. Since 1956 he has been a freelance journalist specializing in science reporting and aerial photography. He has undertaken extensive visits to every part of the world, including Antarctica.”
Click on “Picture Gallery” in the left margin on his website to browse a gallery of his photos (direct linking does not seem to be working).
Seb-Przds mindbending photos.
Flickr user Seb Przd specialises in spherical panoramas and conformal mappings. Be sure to take a look at his Equirectangular and Stereographic Projections galleries as well. He explains his technique here.