Trying to Develop a Pattern from an Image

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T20:57:21+00:00

It doesn't look like a pieced quilt at all, but something woven.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T20:49:06+00:00

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T17:44:52+00:00

Dear goddess. "Let's guess what this word is." That's even worse than the whole word nonsense that my classmates were taught.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T14:49:15+00:00

Or quote marks. The supermarket has "fresh" apples. Sometimes even "fresh" apple's.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T14:06:17+00:00

INFO: does that mean that YOU also have to live with them? Are you a minor who has no choice in where to live? Or are you an adult living on your own?

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T14:01:34+00:00

And plenty of my classmates in California too. 8th grade when I left that school and they were reading. One. Sy. La. Ble. At. A. Time.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T13:40:41+00:00

Probably. But I assisted in homeschooling my grandchild because even with an IEP, the public school was not meeting their needs. When an autistic child doesn't understand something and the teacher repeats exactly the same words, ONLY LOUDER, then that student tends to fall behind. Then later on, because they didn't get the grounding they needed, they get frustrated, get told something that they interpret as "you are stupid," melt down, and are segregated from other students causing them to fall even further behind. That's a pretty nasty spiral that took two years to correct academically, and many more years to get them out of the mindset that they are stupid.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T13:27:04+00:00

Does a lizard overlord with a lisp go "Thththththth?"

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T12:59:01+00:00

I dont think they meant bandaid, but like Ace bandages.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T12:40:04+00:00

It IS a bit unnerving, though, when your adolescent grandson asks 'So what does Viagra do, anyway?"

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T05:00:29+00:00

Yep. My mother got carded at a grocery store in Georgia at 81.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T04:44:27+00:00

And I'll bet it was OP's booze, too. NTA.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T04:38:59+00:00

The 1st Amendment protects recording in public spaces.

Correction: the courts have said the First Amendment applies to recording in public places. The amendment itself says no such thing, because when it was written, the only recording device was a quill pen, ink, and paper.

The courts have also said that in certain buildings or at certain times you may not use recording devices. Polling places, secure government buildings, etc.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-30T04:17:48+00:00

Yep. Many, many years ago, in the Baltimore area, there was an ad for a local craft store. The owner had his little granddaughter as narrator, maybe about 9 or 10 from her voice. OnlyshetalkedlikethisrattlingoutthewholescriptaboutGrandpa'scraftstoreallinonebreath. I'm sure Grandpa was very proud of her, but I don't know that she brought in much business.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-29T23:21:54+00:00

A pill container?

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-29T06:05:42+00:00

I don't. All but about 10 of my quilts have gone to charity.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-29T05:57:13+00:00

Haven't there been a couple of similar tales on here, where the girlfriends claimed that "all girls do it, because it's cute!"

In 50+ years, I've only stolen food from my husband once. We were at a "banquet" where the food had been so highly seasoned that it was inedible. I took a cherry tomato and a paper-thin slice of cucumber out of his salad and gave him all of my lettuce. The two cherry tomatoes and two slices of cucumber were the only things I could eat.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-29T05:34:51+00:00

Or buy Fascist Jesus Hobby Supplies.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-29T05:21:03+00:00

You pays your money and you takes your chance.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-29T05:13:23+00:00

You said the M word! shuffles hastily away

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-29T05:09:40+00:00

What's it made of? 🤨

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-28T21:30:15+00:00

And my mother-in-law. That bit about the boy being afraid to play with his toys because if he played a bit too long or "made a mess" he'd be punished?

One day when we were visiting the in-laws I sat my little girls down at the dining room table with coloring books and crayons. The quietest, most inoffensive form of play kids could do, right?

Wrong, at least according to my MIL. I was sitting in the living room reading when she came boiling up to me, red faced and yelling. "THOSE GIRLS HAVE MADE A HUGE MESS ALL OVER MY TABLE!!!!!"

Were they coloring on the tablecloth, scribbling on the walls, or grinding crayons into the carpet? No. They were doing just as I told them. The HUGE MESS was several crayons lying on the table instead of being put back in the box as soon as they were finished, because they wanted to use the same colors.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-28T13:53:37+00:00

Have you considered quilt-as-you-go?

I just quilted around each appliqué, and then did the background quilting, but I was doing a spiral meander, not a geometric grid.

TheFilthyDIL · 2026-01-28T13:48:22+00:00

Could this be done with jelly rolls? Or is it the kind of pattern where you make a large square and cut it into quarters, since it mentions needing a 9" square?

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