I needed to find out how to do the tuck/fold method of joining binding strips on some mini quilts I’m making. Bobbie had shown me a few weeks ago, but I’d forgotten. So it was off to Google again…
I forgot to add ‘quilt’ as a keyword—here are my search results. Almost all are related to quilting (and I found my answer amongst them). But look carefully… Result #6 is interesting…
Search results
I’m a raw beginner at machine quilting and have tried to learn more just by practising, reading some stuff on the internet etc. Then I came across this EXCELLENT 43 min video on doing free motion machine quilting. Now to practice some of the techniques…
Back in September when I left a major project, Sarah P, one of my colleagues in the Brisbane-based company, said she was going to get a fish for her desk and call it Rhonda! A fish called Rhonda… get it? (guess you have to be a certain age where you remember the movie ‘A fish called Wanda’!)
Anyhow, she has FINALLY sent me a photo of Rhonda (who is a ‘he’ by the way, so some in the office call him ‘Ron’). Sarah reckons whenever anyone asks its name, she says ‘Rhonda’ and they say ‘Perth Rhonda?’ so I guess some of them still remember me. 😉 (and no, I have NO idea why there’s some space-suited figure with a ray gun hanging over the side of the fishbowl!)
A fish called Rhonda
Update, 2 June 2011: I just heard from Sarah P that Rhonda passed away last night. 😦 He will be buried in her backyard in Queensland, under the poinsiana tree, next to the guinea pig, so he’ll be doing a little bit towards improving the environment.
Last night we were driving back from Balingup and low in the crystal clear western sky was a terrific sight—a sliver of a moon topped by Jupiter and Venus. Tonight’s meant to be even better as the planets and the moon line up into a ‘smiley face’—at least in Western Australia. Even nicer is that Sagittarius (my star sign) and Capricorn (my Mum’s) are in the picture.
Planets and moon in a smiley face configuration
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Update 9:00pm: I took a photo at 8:30pm. My (old) digital camera doesn’t have a way to stop or minimise camera shake, so there’s a little bit of shake in the photo, even though I steadied my arm against a back veranda post. Here’s my photo:
My photo of the smiley face
Rhonda Bracey: At Random 