Turkish delight

I was a little surprised to see some of my photos on a Turkish blog; she does have a link back to this blog, so hey, it’s all good! She seems to be impressed with the embroidery basket I rebuilt a couple of years ago. I would have loved to leave a comment, but couldn’t figure out how to do that. Darn, I guess I need to take Turkish lessons

I tried to translate the Sporadic Packrat into Turkish, but the best I could come up with is tek tük kolektör.

Anyway, I just thought it’d be fun to send people her way, and she’ll figure out that I saw her blog. So please visit 10marifet.org!

New bag

New bag from scraps

I’ve been wanting to try a bag pattern from Bag Boutique by Amy Barickman, so I gathered up some scraps, added a lining fabric and a zipper to come up with this. I don’t really like the end product… the shape anyway. I do like the way the design turned out. The pattern was easy to use, with clear directions (I even kinda read them!), so I will be making another bag from Amy’s book one of these days.

new bag detail

Surfin’ the web

If you visit my blog, you’ll notice a new page, Surfin’ the Web (if you view this blog via a reader, well, come visit!). I’m trying out a new way to keep track of my bookmarks. I’m sure you’ve heard of Del.ici.ous, the social bookmarking site. It’s a really cool way to access your bookmarks from any computer that’s connected to the internet. I’m sharing my links with you, and so are other people. Anyone who uses the tag “crazyquilts” is included in the feed on my Netvibes public page, in the upper right hand corner of the page.

If you’d like to join in, and add sites too, sign up for a Del.ici.ous account, and start adding links. You can put a bookmarklet button on your browser, making it super easy to add links. If you network with me, you can see all my bookmarks-even more sharing! But… If you’re a little unsure of using Del.ici.ous, you can always leave me a comment on this page, and ask me to add your link. And please, if you have a cool blog or website, tell me about it so I can add it!

The list below contains links to my Netvibes tabs; I think the names are self explanatory. Each Netvibe tab also has a list of my Del.ici.ous tags. You can select a tag, and go to my Del.ici.ous links associated with that tag. If you click on a link in one of the feeds, a new page for that link will open.

Crazy quilting

Ireland

Computer (not there yet, but eventually…)

Let me know what you think of this. It’s an experiment at this point, and I might go back to having links on the blog (yes, they’re all still there as of now! but that’ll be changing soon… verrrry sooonnn…). It’s just that I’ve found it so easy to use Del.ici.ous; no more copy/paste stuff, my link list on Netvibes is updated without any effort at all, and I can see tons more links as well. What’s not to like??

Electric embroidery…

An amazing video:
I sincerely hope that this is an awesome Photoshop/Flash project. Definitely something to aspire to, no matter how it was done! “‘Like It or Not’ was painstakingly stitched by The crew at Mathematics (who made the AIH clip for ‘Debbie’), directed by Josh Logue and interpreted from a coconut concerned psychedelic love fantasy emanating from the stream of consciousness of Cameron Bird.“

Architecture in Helsinki – Like It Or Not from helsinkids on Vimeo.

Found via Embroidered Prayers of Peeling a Pomegranate

Soft circuit embroidery:
I want to try this – “…introductory tutorial for working with conductive thread to make a circuit on fabric. Using traditional embroidery techniques with modern electronic components, she will demo the creation of a simple soft switch circuit that will light up a sewn LED…”

LilyPad arduino:
Whatever arduinos are, you can sew them onto fabric and do electronic thingies with them. Lea Buechly works at in the Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado Boulder and “…explores the intersection of computational and physical media, focusing on computational textiles or electronic textiles (e-textiles) – soft, flexible, fabric-based computers.”

Whoohoo! a winner!

I went to the Fairbanks Arts Association "Charlie's Party for the Arts" fundraiser Saturday evening, and won one of the huge baskets they raffled off! Books, cards, a coffee cup, two coffee cards, two season tickets to "Winter Shorts" at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Jellybellies, a decorative tile, jewelry, bath items-the list goes on and on!