I wasn't expecting to make this particular mat.
My keyboard wore out and the new one has
backlit keys - it is actually a PC keyboard but
it also runs on my Mac minus some of the functionalities.
Because the "off" combination for the backlit keys
happens to be one of those non-functioning options,
I made a 15" x 26" reversible "quilt" to cover the keyboard
at night so the light doesn't illuminate that room.
During the daylight hours, the quilt hangs on the back of my chair.
Problem solved!
When I made the back for Hello July
I had a long strip of fabric left over.
What to do with it?
Make a 12" x 60" runner for my sister.
Quilted with rows of liberated fans
using Glide thread in Zaffre.
(those otters were just too much fun
to send to the resource box . . .
Acadia Otter Assembly
by Betsy Siber for Michael Miller)
This is the reverse side -
I suspect she will alternate sides
depending on the time of year.
Quiltdivajulie
"In the early part of the 20th Century and the late part of the 19th Century in particular, there were regular comments advising mothers that if you want your boy to grow up masculine, dress him in a masculine colour like pink and if you want your girl to grow up feminine dress her in a feminine colour like blue. This was advice that was very widely dispensed with and there were some reasons for this. Blue in parts of Europe, at least, had long been associated as a feminine colour because of the supposed colour of the Virgin Mary’s outfit. Pink was seen as a kind of boyish version of the masculine colour red. It gradually started to change however in the mid-20th Century and eventually by about 1950, there was a huge advertising campaign by several advertising agencies pushing pink as an exclusively feminine colour and the change came very quickly at that point."
Gavin Evans (The Story of Color)
No comments:
Post a Comment