The Stitch Modern Show
Open to the public
Runs from February 1 to 26, 2012 on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays from 12-3 pm
The Piedmont Center for the Arts
801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, CA 945611

Opening Reception  
Saturday, February 4, 2012 :: 6:30-8:30 pm

“What is Modern Quilting?” Public Conversation  
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 :: 6 pm

Stitch Modern Family Event 
to expose kids to the joy and freedom of modern quilting
Saturday, February 11, 2012 :: 12:30-2:30 pm

Links:
- “Stitch Modern – The East Bay Modern Quilt Show” on the EBMQG blog
- Press Release
- “Stitch Modern Quilt Show” on the Piedmont Center for the Arts website
- “Stitch Modern – The East Bay Modern Quilt Show” Flickr Pool  
- “Stitch Modern – The East Bay Modern Quilt Show Opening” Facebook event page  
- “What is Modern Quilting? Public Conversation” Facebook event page  
- “Stitch Modern Family Event” Facebook event page  

Postcard designed by Kim Andersson.

I made this quick rag quilt for my great-neice Mahliyah for Christmas… and I think she loves it :)

- Sedona
- Plum Frost
- Ruby Laser
- Flamingo
- Florida Inferno
- Diane’s Gold
- Trailing Plum Brocade
- Saturn
- Saturn’s Rings

- I also placed a special request for Tilt-a-Whirl if it becomes available.

I’ve have most of these in the past except for Ruby Laser and Florida Inferno, which are new to me. I should be getting these around May 14, 2012.

I was in the process of making my Habitat Arrows quilt inspired by Marianne Haak’s (MariQuilts) Analeigh’s Quilt 2010… which was inspired by the pattern Follow the Arrows from Quick Quilts Magazine. Since I was in the “arrow” mood… I decided to make my orange and gray block using this pattern.

You can see some of the construction photos on Flickr.

I saw these Micro Terrerium being sold at Michael’s. They remind me of these mini terrariums that I had when I was a kid.

The app is called Skitch and I’ve actually been using for a while now. I just discovered the web page capture function today by accident. The commandto capture a web page from Safari is Snap Safari under the Capture menu item.

I’ve use a Firefox plugin called Pixlr Grabber for work, but it crashes so much. Every time I release final files for a HTML emails, I need to send along a screenshot of the whole page and the Mac’s built in screenshot only captures a portion of the screen. I think Skitch will help me out a lot.

I then followed a link to his blog, Intergalactic Transport, and read some of his entries about how he made these space-inspired quilts. I love how he uses old shirts from thrift stores and it looks like he paper-pieced most of the quilt. That’s one thing I really want to learn.

I’m inspired and want to try out Jimmy’s techniques, so I’ll trying to think of a small project that I can possibly do… maybe a Christmas present for someone. Hmm?…

I just discovered today that Flickr has added geofences… which are locations where you can specify different geo privacy settings to. I made a geofence around my house, and my relative’s homes. Now the photo taken at these locations will only show geolocation data to family members and not to the general public. In the past, I used to manually remove the geoleocation of photos at home… but now, I don’t have to do that because Flickr will automatically do it for me.

More Geofence info on Flickr’s blog: blog.flickr.net/en/2011/08/30/introducing-geofences-on-flickr/

Each branch has 6, 8 or 10 leaves in pairs on opposite sides of the branch. Some of the tree have a bunch of suckers growing at the base of the tree. The younger stems are reddish brown. I crushed a leaf and there is really no distinct odor.

Here is a photo of the whole tree along the street.

More photos:

Here is a close up of the suckers/leaves.

Here is how it looks when you look up into the tree.

Here is another close up of the leaves.

This tree is growing in Alameda, California which is in the central San Francisco Bay Area – USDA Hardiness Zone 8B.

Anyone know what this tree is?