As a sewist, I am more than familiar with selvedge printing on fabric. The photo above is the first example I can ever remember seeing of a candy wrapper selvedge, though! Am I just way too unobservant? LOL! Who knew (not me!)?
I can't believe it has been three weeks since I posted here. I have been doing lots of things but most of them have not been sewing, sadly. I did manage to sew some last Friday afternoon with my friend Barbara. I talked myself into tackling Bonnie Hunter's Mystery quilt, Chilhowie, this year. Actually, the fabric talked me into it. Grin! I found a palette of orange, turquoise and yellow that really lit my fires and so far it is keeping me interested.
I don't know whether I will make big bed quilt with it but I am enjoying the colors and sewing. There have been five steps posted so far (I _think_) and I am up to working on step Four. I am only making a few of each step (typically, whatever one strip set will sew into) ... I may decide to make my blocks twice as big (like my friend Patty does) after I see what the results are like. Generally I don't like mysteries (too controlling, I guess:) as I prefer to know what I'm making beforehand. Shrug.
What HAVE I been doing? Taking Kim and Kevin (my niece and brother) grocery shopping, Xmas shopping, running errands, buying furniture, visiting the doctor, etc. My last post was made when I was still in WI ... had a fine drive home though the weather was not as pretty as when I drove out (colder and cloudier). I was driving eastward when coming home so I actually got a real life demonstration of the time shift. It started to get dark at what I thought was way too early a time by my car's clock - and then realized that, yes, it was getting to twilight at 3:30 midwestern time ... because I had passed Indiana and the time zone meridian line some time back. :) When I set the car's clock back to 4:30, everything looked as usual. LOL.
Sunday afternoon was the monthly meeting of Sew&Tell. Six of us met that day. As usual, there was great food (we pot luck for luncheon) and we had our annual gift exchange. I was mortally embarrassed by the fact that I could NOT find the gifts I bought, wrapped and stowed away back in MAY for the swap. Grrr! I have to devote some time to finding them for our January meeting. It was a great year for goodies, as usual. :)
Here's a couple of interesting facts I saved back from my science reading recently:
The world’s earliest needle was discovered in a Siberian Denisova cave. The Denisovans were an archaic species of humans before Homo sapiens. This needle is under 3 inches (8 cm) in length, has an eye, is made of bird bone, and is thought to date back some 50,000 years. A point from another possible needle was found in a cave in South Africa and is dated around 61,000 years ago. The oldest known sewing thread is flax; it’s about 34,000 years old, was discovered in a cave in the country of Georgia, and was probably the result of naturally occurring rotted flax stems.
And:
The earliest evidence of cotton fibers was found recently in the Jordan Valley. The fibers probably arrived at Tel Tsaf from the Indus Valley region that is present-day Pakistan thousands of kilometers away.
Just to put some quilts in this post, here is one example of a beautiful quilt (imho) - one of many shown recently at Quilts Yokohama in Japan (click through and take a look at gorgeousness!):
:) Linda
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