Good Morning, Quilters!
Have you seen “The Dress Debate” that’s gone viral? I’m in the “white and gold” category along with one of my daughters–the rest of the family: blue and black.
What do YOU see?
Fascinating!
Another busy week at The Inbox Jaunt!
THE MYSTERY QUILT-A-LONG
We finished the Mystery Quilt on Wednesday (though there is an epilogue next Wednesday). I found it “Very interesting, my dear Watson” that you were split down the middle- those who prefer to see a quilt before beginning a project and those who prefer the excitement of a mystery.
I agree with both sides…(how diplomatic of me, don’t you think?) Let me explain…as a quilter, I would prefer to see the finished quilt, though because this project was small with minimal fabric and time commitment, I think I would have participated…
As the author of the project….The Mystery was much more fun!
BOOK WORMS AMONG US
I really enjoyed hearing how you all feel about electronic readers on yesterday’s post, Are You a Book Worm? I think we are all in the same boat, reluctant, but we have to admit there are advantages.
I loved Brian Dettmar’s (AKA The Book Surgeon) comment: “Electronic readers allow books to quilt their day jobs and do more important things” (paraphrased)…
I’m just glad we can have BOTH! I could never give up holding a book in my hands, or the joy of cracking open a quilt book…and then re-thumbing it a million times!
GIVEAWAY
I also found your Goals for 2015 interesting…Definitely a consensus—
- Finish UFOS
- Try new Things!
THE WINNERS
Thank you to all who entered!
The winner of a $25 Superior Threads Gift Certificate (may be used on any thread…) is…
SillyAndrea!
Congratulations, Andrea! Please send your address to lckennedy@hotmail.com.
Remember, there will be a second winner chosen at Superior’s Facebook page….
If you didn’t win…
More giveaways in March!
Happy Stitching!
Lori
PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and are intended for personal use only. Feel free to reblog with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt. For all other purposes, please contact me at lckennedy@hotmail.com. Thanks!
13 comments
Kristin S-D
Hi, Lori! I won the Facebook certificate for King Tut thread from Superior, thank you for the opportunity! I really enjoy your blog and of course, Superior Threads!
Quilt Musings
I also saw white and gold and was amazed when I saw the dress next to the wedding dress and showing the people, so your eyes have something to compare it to. There is a good explanation of what happens here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/28/science/white-or-blue-dress.html. Even after reading that and seeing the picture of the dress in the other context, where it is clearly blue and black, I can still only see it as white and gold in the original picture. Fascinating!
Lori Kennedy
I thought it was fascinating too! Glad you liked it!
Quilt Musings
Another interesting article that relates to this issue tangentially: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2. Apparently ancient languages did not have the word for blue…and people didn’t ‘see’ it. Hope you enjoy the article.
Quilt Musings
And immediately after posting above, I tabbed back to the explanation and scrolled up from the picture that I could see as black and blue to the one that up until that moment was consistently white and gold…and now it is blue and black. So strange.
barbara woods
i see white and gold to , what does it mean?
sillyandrea
WHOA. 😀 This is awesome!!!
Ness
Congrats Silly Andrea! And totally White and Gold!! Weird… What does it mean! I never figured it out?
Laura Metz
“The Dress” – I see Light blue and dark greenish brown. So now my question is what color are you wearing in the picture for this site? Is it light blue with a black color?
Ruth
I’m in the white gold too but once I read the explanation all I could see was the blue version!
farmquilter
I can see both the white and gold and blue and black! Very weird!! I could not live without my Kindle. I travel a lot and even though I usually go by car, hauling around a bunch of books is heavy!
Rosemarazzle
Rosemary B here:
Oh my, this pin cushion is soooo cute. Well congratulations to sillyAndrea 😀
Happy Friday Lori and everyone and have a delightful week-end too
cold and sunny here in No Va
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