A few fun things from last week …
Transparent desktops on Flickr (via NY Apartment Therapy) are pretty cool, and took a lot of time and effort, and who has the time to do these things, anyway? Puts me in mind of this for some reason, also a lot of Photoshop work.
Pictures (above) from a Swedish blog of an unbelievable craft space. If I had that many tools to work with, I’d be happy forever. Well, probably I’d just want even more, but that’s a personal issue I need to work on.
The most unusual Scarf I’ve seen this week from “mmm fiber” (I didn’t make that name up) … a series of interlocking rings in sunshiny colors. (right) I can just see myself trying to make this, getting horribly tangled in rings and yarn.
The Underground Quilt Controversy? Interesting article from the Quilting and Patchwork blog on whether or not the underground railroad used messages encoded into quilts. Never heard of this before, how intriguing!
This crochet lace bowl is completely awesome, so awesome I might want to investigate how they managed to make it stay in that shape. Aparently salt crystals make doilies do this?
And finally, some Nerd Craft from Becky Schaefer- Lara Croft (guns and all!) in a lovely pastoral setting … all done in needlepoint. Bet Ms. Croft loves her some needlepoint. And barns! That’s hysterical. I love the little birdie there right by her knee. (Via, via this, which is via this)
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feel free to leave a few words of your own...Mary Emma Allen — Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 5:45 pm (link)This is a fascinating topic…the possibility of clues in quilts to help the slaves find their way to the north via the Underground Railroad. Some say research indicates it’s true while others don’t think there’s much proof, only folklore handed down by word-of-mouth. I’m pleased you found this of interest at Quilting and Patchwork. If any of your readers have opinions or insight into this, I’d enjoy having them leave a comment at Quilting and Patchwork.
Miriam — Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 10:55 pm (link)It’s really interesting … with such a clandestine operation as the Underground Railroad had to be, it’s no surprise that clues to such a practice would be difficult to find, if indeed this happened.
As a historian, I would never discount folklore as a valuable source. It’s usually the tantalizing clue that leads to a wealth of information.
Karin — Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 5:18 am (link)Just found my way here an read that you like my workspace. I love to organise it so that I se what I have and I guess I have a lot of stuff! But its true, I never get enough of tools, I love craft tools!
