Only kidding. Here’s some of my quilts. I’m currently working on another hexagon pattern.
Queensize blanket This is the one that took years.
Playmat. This one was much quicker. I recently found out that the (then unborn) baby is heading to school next year and still insists that it stays on her bed. It’s only about one metre (yard-ish) square.
Quiltedon machine, cheating! The reverse is the same material in pink. I didn’t know the gender of the baby.
Abebe, is that you? 
I used to build and fly Indoor Free Flight air models, something like this is 1.2 grams worth of balsa wood, rubber band and plastic film so you get an idea of how cheap it is as a hobby. It’s also very relaxing and intellectually stimulating at the same time.
OOO, these are all wonderful. I’m always happy to see a fellow hand-worker.
Pics? Pretty please?
There’s some fab websites out there: Sweeties sweeps, Online Sweepstakes, Sweepsheet, Sweepstakes Advantage that you can research.
Does it say anything about me that I read that as gynecology?
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I’ll see what I can find this evening… 
OK, if I did this right you should be able to see five pictures here.
Sorry for all the posts, but maggenpye, what is your technique for piecing hexagons? Basting them around paper/templates?
Those are freaking gorgeous! Thisis my favourite.
I know some of techniques you’ve used, but haven’t had the courage to attempt them.
Did the fabric come in packs or did you colour match yourself (awesome either way).
Yes, I baste around templates. I used thin card for the first one because there were many different materials (about 9/10th’s of the ‘flowers’ are made of my family’s old clothes), thicker for the second (diamond pattern) because they were quite large at 3in point to point. I’m using paper now and it’s much quicker since all the fabrics are light cotton.
Some craft shops sell packs of the hexes in plastic which would be great for re-using, but I kind of enjoy cutting out the templates, too. Considering there’s 14 to an A4 page and I’ll need around 3000, that’s just as well, really!
D’oh! that’s my kid’s fave, thisis mine.
Whoa, 3000.
No techniques here – I trace plastic templates for the pieces, cut individually with scissors, and then hand-piece. The machine is too intimidating for me!
Thanks! That one actually won ribbons at one of the NH fairs. :o
The two prints were from my mom’s stash and the yellows and oranges from Jo-Ann fat quarter bundles. On the orangy one, it was mostly from the same collection, with a couple of others thrown in.
Pysanky AKA Ukrainian egg decorating. Basic supplies, you can find them online, will set you back $15-30. Eggs are cheap at the grocery store and you can empty out the egg innards from the shell before you start dyeing and cook and eat them.
Well, where I live, if you put yard waste out for collection, they’re not going into the landfill. They’re going into the city’s humongous composting operation, and then you can buy the resulting compost back in bulk or in 25-pound bags. Pretty good prices, too. But just yard waste, not kitchen waste and the like, so it’s not as thorough as source reduction as DIY.
Yeah, that’s a lot of coffee grounds. I’d just feel odd trying to transport it off campus, especially in quantity.
I do DIY composting at home, but rather lazily. Still, composting poorly (i.e., not turning often enough, really) doesn’t mean the compost pile is broke; it just means it’s going to do its job very slowly. I’m basically OK with this. As it is, the bottom of the bin is full of mature compost I can’t even use right now (winter and all). When I harvest that, I’ll have even more room to drop in waste and forget about it. 
Celtling and I have three of Askew’s eggs, and they are among our most prized posessions. They are incredbly beautiful and intricate! http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14583733&postcount=109
Those are incredible. I can’t imagine that kind of precise tiny hand-work!
Writing. Non-fiction sells and fiction is fun.
Get a dog and take him/her hiking. We keep our dogs on long leads, attached to a padded belt (used for skijoring in the winter). Keeps our hands free and lets them roam about a bit as we walk.
I get outside with my dog way more than before I had him.
Oh, I only meant creating stars out of triangles and squares.I have magazines etc that have similar patterns and how to achieve them, I did a nice table runner by machine, but I feel I have more contol with hand piecing. The machine turns micro errors into major faults while I’m watching!
Also - love those eggs, TruCelt. Love the packing assistant, too.
My compost pile was too large to turn as often as I would have liked so I built it with plastic drainfield pipe layered in every 12" or so. The pipe not only allows oxygen to get in but also allows insects and other composters easier access to turn the pile for you. Much less sensitive to overwatering with good aeration. I have always liked the way a chipper processes compost and builds the pile. They really heat up after going through a chipper and getting all that fresh air.
