Quilting on Crossed Kayaks is done. There isn't much original and challenging about a simple meander pattern, but it gets the job done and relatively quickly too.
I love my square-tiled kitchen floor--just perfect for blocking quilts.
The binding is made and ready to go too. This quilt was always intended to be a stash buster and I'm doing my best--the binding is from fabric at least 12 years old, from back in my days at The Quilt Shop Which Shall Not Be Mentioned. It still had the yardage slip pinned to the edge.
Binding will be sewn on tomorrow and then onto final handwork. Progress!
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This has been a techno week for me. On Tuesday, the library sent me to a presentation by Stephen Abram, VP for Innovation (love that title) of our library automation software company. Of course an interesting concept would be actually innovating the software into a bit more user-friendly and agile format, but that's WAAAAAY another topic. The topic of his presentation was Attracting and Engaging the Millennial Customer.
That means people born from 1977 to 1994. Supposedly their brains are wired differently, having been raised on MTV and all.
Stephen Abram himself operated a bit like MTV, throwing so many ideas and concepts at us about going to meet these Millennials where they live. The upshot of all this is that I've spent the last couple days playing with facebook--setting up an account for me, a library group, joining other groups, and writing on people's walls. Very fun!
Is much library work getting done here? Not sure, but Lucy has her own app on my facebook sidebar, and I can do some virtual petting with her. Anyone else on facebook? If so, stop by and say hi--I'm under my actual name.
In the same vein, I spent some time tonight adding most of the rest of my quilting and needlework books to LibraryThing. Selections from that display on the right sidebar here, and apparently I can bring those into facebook too. Must explore that tomorrow.
They call all this Library 2.0. Heady stuff: those Millennials will have to run to keep up with me. LOL
7 comments:
so I'm a millenial, huh? thanks for letting me know. do I have to get a facebook page now? My sister and I were discussing this while i was home last weekend... the facebook phenomenon happend somewhere in the 3-6 years between me and my sisters... they both have pages, but i dont. Lori said when she searches for people from our high school by graduating class, there are far less people in my class (1997) than in hers (2001). Personally, i use myspace, but only because more of my friends use it. I don't actually go on there and do stuff, but my high school reunion was organized through a myspace page.
cool stuff, huh.
Love your kayaks! I'm so glad I'm just outside the Millenial generation - makes me worry less about not having a Facebook page!
I am just an oldie! haha. I often think of my grandmother- I just know she would have loved all this modern technology.
Oh I can't wait to see the whole crossed kayaks! I just love that block!
There are lots of us Boomers who can leave the Millennials in the dust! Yes, I have a Facebook page and have been on LibraryThing for over a year. I have accounts on Twitter and Jaiku. I listen to podcasts on my iPod and even own an iPhone. Not sure who is on the other end of all this social networking, but it is fun.
Ah yes -- the millenial generation, they actually got a name. Mine, still stuck with that good old "X" (still -- I suppose better than our other name "slacker"). In addition to facebook you might think about "myspace" as well. In addition to the fact that they're wired differently -- they also seem to be proud that they are aliterate.
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