1. D got us a game that's basically a Penguin rip-off of Trivial Pursuit. It is most fun. He rolls doubles at least one time in three, though, which is defying probability. They're not the same numbers, and I'm using the same dice and don't get this. Any theories?

2. How the hell have I managed to burn two fingers rather nastily through an ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about seeing, and how people with disabilities are part of the social construct of looking and being looked at ( Read more... )

For anyone remotely artistically inclined, or anyone who can work out things like how the water looks when a turtle is swimming through it, I am currently working on the quilting design for my turtle quilt. Post about it here, and scroll to the bottom to see what I think is rather a nifty quilting pattern, though possibly it may need adjusting to ( Read more... )

A month or so ago, I finished the purple quilt for eye_of_a_cat. The story behind this one was that my boyfriend's mother gave me some matching fabrics last Christmas with peacocks on them. They were lovely but not my cup of tea, so I decided to make a quilt for eye_of_a_cat as a congratulations-on-finishing-your-PhD present. A few months later, she ended up house- ( Read more... )

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For anyone who cares, S (my lovely and utterly crazy support worker) and I managed to baste the bedspread quilt this afternoon, on a floor space smaller than the quilt. This is a major victory.

( Look what I made! )

And I've just posted about it here, if anyone wants to have a look and suggest how to quilt it (go on, it's a poll, everyone loves polls). I've been working on it on and off for the last two weeks and am rather proud of how it's turning out.

1. ghost_of_a_flea and I are getting addicted to stuffed peppers. My usual recipe involves rice, sautéed onion, vegemince, bit of tomato, and various different seasonings (last time there were raisins, pine nuts, garlic, and spices that focused heavily on the cinnamon side of things). For those of you who don't know how to stuff peppers, you cook up the filling ( Read more... )

I've just finished reading Carol Shields' Happenstance, a novel written in 1980 which features a woman who is attending a quilting conference in Philadelphia during the course of the novel. During this conference, a psychology/art history lecturer who has obviously never picked up a needle in her life gives a Freudian interpretation of quilting ( Read more... )

Several weeks ago ( Read more... )