just what is it that makes the poor so patient so quiet?

just what is it that makes the poor so patient so quiet?

Originally uploaded by bluemacgirl

Just came across this photo on flickr, and it’s posted under creative commons, so I can share this here..

I’m staying @twoday.net

Hi all,

If you came across this blog and you wanted to visit my actual blog, It’s here:

http://vaude.twoday.net

I set up this blog at wordpress to see if the importing of posts and comments would work, but I like twoday.net more. But I think I’ll keep this blog here (after one day of work and setting everything up here) just in case. I won’t update it, though. The blog I will be updating is the link above, or you can click on “my blog in english” in the links menu to the right.
:-)

Found something new

I found a crafty weblog, Tiny Happy and the very first (on looking again, the second) photo was showing a magazine page, a woman is holding a towel or piece of cloth with “All I want for xmas is an Anarcho feminisit Revolution” embroidered on it.
To be precise, here.

The article seems to be about something called “Craftivism”. I want to know what that is.

I, too, would like an Anarcho-Feminist Revolution ;-)
In Germany, many people still think that anarchy has something to do with throwing bombs, violence and terrorism. I don’t know about other places in the world.
For me, it’s got nothing to do with it – Anarchy is just about people making decisions concerning their own business by themselves. I make my own decisions, and when I and my friend would live in a house, we would together make the decisions for our house. And the community finds ways of making community decisions for themselves and so on. Therefore you can’t just “do what you want” in anarchy, humans are social beings and so they must find out what they want as a community, too. Many people think anarchy is “no one tells me what to do.” That’s correct, but instead you tell yourselves (as a community) what to do. Just like democracy, only that it’s more direct.
I don’t want to convert anyone to become an anarchist, just trying to explain a bit, after all it’s in the name of my blog and might scare someone?

I spend a great evening today after receiving a spontaneous invitation by a good friend to go out and stuff ourselves with sushi. After that we went to her house and did some webdesigning stuff – I tried out her new graphic tablet and it’s really good. And I tried to take a picture of Ayers Rock, but Ayers Rock turned around his head to look at me and suddenly didn’t look like Ayers Rock any more, but more like a cat.

I love my sewing machine

The advantage of starting a new blog is being able to talk about things over again. This is a praise of my sewing machine. I got it last fall, when I had been sewing regularly for one year already and decided I deserve a good machine.
Then I found out that good machines are very very expensive. I set myself a limit of 500 Euros. (500.00 EUR = 780.25 USD) I tested some machines within that price range and wasn’t satisfied. The Pfaff Machine cost 800 and was way too loud. The brother machine would have been nicer, but I didn’t like the “pink plastic cancy” design.
I was lucky when my mother came to visit me and we were searching ebay for used machines, what I did a lot last fall. We came across an old Bernina 707 minimatic. That’s exactly the machine my mother had bought herself in the 70ies, and she said I should bid on it, offering that she could take the machine for herself if I wouldn’t like it.
So I bid and won the auction. After 3 days, it arrived, had been safely packed for shipping and it turned out to be a wonderful sewing machine, with a very silent, softly humming motor and enough power to pierce nearly anything that I manage to stuff under the presser foot.

I do so love this machine!

The only thing I find a bit tricky is thread tension. After two weeks I messed around with the tension screw on the bobbin and I have to “tune” the tension more often than I had to do when I was sewing on the cheap brother beginner machine, but the good thing about this: Now I know how to set the thread tension on my machine. (After reading many articles on tension) ;-)

I made some lavender bags today (and yesterday) :-)

Double 9 Patch

At the beginning of this year, I started this quilt. I cut and sewed the top in a very short time (only some days) and now it’s being quilted. The pattern is taking some time. It’s taking months. But I think I’ll be finished this year ;-)
My sewing machine is capable of machine quilting, but I like to handquilt. I only use machine quilting when making bags, because it shows more clearly and the soft look of handquilting doesn’t stand out enough on a bag. (For my taste)

And I used regular cotton fabrics and old bed sheets in this quilt, and a cotton batting, so it’s not as easy to quilt as a quilt with only expensive patchwork fabrics and a thin poly batting. I love patchwork fabrics and their colours and designs – but it feels more “authentic” to me to cut up old garments and reuse fabric. And the quilts do have a different “feel” to them.
The blue fabric is new, from IKEA.