This was an amazing exhibit of red and white quilts owned by Joanna Rose, a collector of over 1000 quilts (of which 650 were on display). It was on display in NYC for 6 days in April 2011. From the pictures in the article they were beautifully displayed.
Sock Prayer Flags. by knitting iris on Flickr.
Why We Need President Obama - A Critical Moment by Deepak Chopra →
“If you suppose that the average citizen remembers that the right wing are the very ones who got us into this forlorn tangle of wars abroad, financial collapse, out-of-control spending, and massive bonuses for the rich, you have not felt the power that fear exerts. Since 9/11, playing upon fear has been wildly successful for the right wing — it re-elected a catastrophic president — and now outrage has been added to the mix thanks to the romping recklessness of Wall Street, which paid not the slightest penalty for bringing on the recession.”
A joke was played on Julia Robers on the set for Larry Crowne as the crew #knits. See Tom Hanks and other burly guys knit it up. I guess Julia Roberts is a big knitter. Only cool people knit.
Another Alexander McQueen Gown for Kate! This one is lilac and oh so lovely. Notice the ring with the bag. Simple elegance.
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A Tight-Knit Community Why Facebook can't match Ravelry, the social network for knitters. →
Knitters do it better.
Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress sells for $5.6 million at auction →
Marilyn Monroe’s white “subway” dress sold for more than $5.6 million in a Beverly Hills, California auction Saturday night in which bidders paid another $2.7 million for three other Monroe movie outfits.
i make shiny things: Not cool Urban Outfitters, not cool. →
One of my lovely customers sent me a message today with this link.
And here is my United/World of Love line:
My heart sank a little bit. The World/United States of Love line that I created is one of the reasons that I was able to quit my full-time job. They even stole the…
Last night I watched “The Buddha” on PBS. For the fun of it I live blogged it on Twitter. Attached are screen shots of my blogging. Since it is a twitter feed read each slide from the bottom up. Or you can read it on Twitter searching the hashtag #thebuddha . I went to bed before it was over but I got most of it.
People only started writing about the Buddha 500 years after his death! In my humble opinion this twitter feed is no different than the first writings and how we know about the buddha today.
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