Trooper York: The Dog Days Are Over 3

Sunday, August 19, 2012

The Dog Days Are Over 3

I hate that the vacation is over.

We had so much fun.

You wish you could hold on forever.

You just have to hold on to your baby.

And go on to the rest of the year.

Farewell Seatuck.

105 comments:

Titus said...: Very special and all that crap.

My goal in life is to find exposed tits and or nipples.

Some people's goals are money, apartment, mate, car etc.

But mine is seeing women's tit's exposed. And I see them in coffee shots, leaning over the screen with nipple exposed. I also see them while they bend down to pet the rare clumber. I see them on the subway "pressing" against me. They are braless and hot and have a "I don't give a shit attitude , it's the summer" I am tempted to reach for them but I am a lady and have some class. Some of them have talcom powder on them, some essential oils, some no additions, but dam those things are demanding me to reach for the bar on the train and mistakenly grab the tit. Those tankys they are wearing can non hold in the tit.; August 20, 2012 at 12:38 AM
Anonymous said...: That picture kind of reminds me of the Viagra commercials, very sweet.; August 20, 2012 at 1:19 AM
MamaM said...: My goal in life...

One shot of saggy tits and he winds up to go for the goal.; August 20, 2012 at 2:14 AM
AllenS said...: I thought about the Corona beer commercials.; August 20, 2012 at 7:23 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: ha haa.

Lovely photo. My first thought was... Cialis?; August 20, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Chip S. said...: Huh. I just thought it was a sweet depiction of the end of summer.

The pic that seems like a Viagra ad to me is the one that shows "Dead Woody," accompanied first by the sad-laugh wah-wah-muted trumpet followed by the rising-scale flute whistle as the bird gets up and flies out of sight.; August 20, 2012 at 11:36 AM
ricpic said...: Hey, you can take several mini-vacations or vacances at Setaukut as the year goes by. That way you won't feel such a letdown when the summer vacay is over. Try a three day weekend out there in mid-October. Absolutely beautiful in its own way. Free of charge advice from yours truly.. What a guy!; August 20, 2012 at 11:38 AM
blake said...: Yeah, I think the dead woodpecker put people in mind of certain little blue pills.

That's one of those Drudge juxtaposition thingies. Troop is messin' wif yore heads.; August 20, 2012 at 12:12 PM
windbag said...: Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer's out of reach; August 20, 2012 at 12:39 PM
blake said...: Summer's almost over
Soon it's back to school
Soon they drain the water
Out of the swimming pool

Adopt a brand new attitude
A positive outlook
Buy yourself some pencils
And a loose-leaf notebook

Summer's almost over
A new season's coming up
Time to gird your loins
And don your jockstrap
And your cup

The hiatus is ended
The lax living has to stop
Get rid of that beer belly
Do wind sprints till you drop

Summer's almost over
September's round the bend
Temperatures are dropping
Summer love must end

The one you met upon the beach
And knew in the canoe
You must tell her at the cookout Your romance is through

Summer's almost over
Fading like a tan
Vacation time is running out
Like an unplugged fan

Labor Day is coming
Wet the old grindstone
For all those lazy, hazy,
Crazy days you must atone; August 20, 2012 at 12:48 PM
blake said...: Goddammit--

WHET the old grindstone!; August 20, 2012 at 12:48 PM
The Dude said...: Phyllis Diller, dead at 95. Struck down too soon.; August 20, 2012 at 3:44 PM
chickelit said...: @blake: No reason to swear. I thought the double entendre was sharp cleaver. You do know that certain grindstones are wetted? Also, the knife is whetted, not the grindstone, right?; August 20, 2012 at 4:21 PM
chickelit said...: Lovely photo. My first thought was... Cialis?

A Hard Fall's A-Gonna Reign; August 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM
Titus said...: I can't get my mind of Troop's Moobs.

Those are the cutest things I have ever seen.

They need their own blog and we need many more troop moob pictures. They are just delectable.; August 20, 2012 at 4:59 PM
ricpic said...: Titus is a greedy omnisexual.

Greedy. GREEDY. GREEDY!; August 20, 2012 at 7:08 PM
MamaM said...: Those are the cutest things I have ever seen.

Give him a peek in the shorts and it's all over but the shouting.; August 20, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Titus said...: I am sorry Mamam but I just fucking love Troops Moobs.

I never knew, and now that I do I am enamored.

They are so vulnerable, yet exposed and proud, they don't give a shit. They are like the honey badger. They are pale and exposed to the elements and they are just fucking adorable.

I am fascinated and in love with Troops Moobs, but, just to be clear, so you don't think I am a sicko, not in a sexual way at all.

They are cute but definitely don't make me hard, not to say that they are repellant because they are not that either. Just cute.

does that make sense?

And as you know the men I do actually do have to have sculpted and defined pecs and abs. I can't jizz on a non flat stomach. That is not to say that I am anti flat tummy! It just has taken me so many years to have a flat stomach, I expect and demand the same.

I would consider wrapping Troops Moobs in a nice bow with streamers and marsh mellows but that is about as sexual as I will get with them. I also wouldn't mind painting lipstick on the nips.
tits.; August 20, 2012 at 11:15 PM
chickelit said...: Titus swooned: They need their own blog and we need many more troop moob pictures. They are just delectable.

I hope Titus isn't losing loads in the mood for moobs.; August 20, 2012 at 11:16 PM
MamaM said...: I hope Titus isn't losing loads in the mood for moobs

No doubt there s'mores where that came from. And no marshing his mellow at this point, because he just scored another Tit Tree Triumph as my mind raced to imagine what color lipstick he'd use for paint before I could stop the wheels from spinning.; August 20, 2012 at 11:54 PM
MamaM said...: Actually, before I could disengage the clutch would be a better description.; August 20, 2012 at 11:58 PM
chickelit said...: I also wouldn't mind painting lipstick on the nips.

Pretty, pretty

/Dennis Hopper; August 21, 2012 at 12:53 AM
Titus said...: If Troops Moobs ever needed to be baby sat I would be honored.

I would take care of the little tykes. I would feed them, put little dresses and fedora hats on them, and then have them sit at a bar and have a cocktail and smoke a Cuban cigar. I would want them to be Mexican with ponchos and big unruly mexican hair...for some weird reason, along with handlebar mustaches.

I would also want them to be capable to dance the chacha and the hustle and do the limbo-I don't know why.

That is what i would want to do with Troop's Moobs.

tits.; August 21, 2012 at 1:07 PM
chickelit said...: ...have a cocktail and smoke a Cuban cigar...

...holding the cigar like a pencil test or between, pushed together?; August 21, 2012 at 1:47 PM
chickelit said...: Moobius jokes never end.; August 21, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Chip S. said...: They appeal to twisted minds.; August 21, 2012 at 4:17 PM
chickelit said...: Guilty!; August 21, 2012 at 4:54 PM
Chip S. said...: Hmmm. I was thinking of Titus.

Perhaps my view was one-sided.; August 21, 2012 at 5:00 PM
The Dude said...: You need to bottle up those feelings in a little bottle. Eine kleine bottle would work perfectly.; August 21, 2012 at 5:44 PM
Chip S. said...: And any spillage can be soaked up with a Menger sponge.; August 21, 2012 at 5:46 PM
The Dude said...: One of those was applied to my fractaled ankle by a cantor.; August 21, 2012 at 5:56 PM
Chip S. said...: Just to be clear...

A cantor set it?

Seems like I'm missing something.; August 21, 2012 at 6:10 PM
The Dude said...: Well, it's not as though he was Harnack the magnificent or anything, but the carpet was memorable. When the bone healed I took a random walk on it.; August 21, 2012 at 6:33 PM
Chip S. said...: Sounds like it might have been Dr. Martin Gale.

You'd have gotten a fuller range of motion from Dr. Brown's method.; August 21, 2012 at 6:38 PM
MamaM said...: Excessive dimensions coupled with a fall between integers?

Back to chicklet's big serpentski and other rep-tile arrangements; August 21, 2012 at 6:38 PM
Chip S. said...: subhead @MamaM's link: Brownian Motion on the Sierpinski Carpet

Sounds dirty.

Analog.; August 21, 2012 at 6:47 PM
The Dude said...: Homeomorphic, even.; August 21, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Chip S. said...: They like that in West Hollywood. In the rest of Hollywood it's just as likely to be a Brownie in motion on a Polanski carpet.; August 21, 2012 at 7:03 PM
chickelit said...: Analog

Titus has regaled us with tails of Brownian motion before, IIRC. This is something he frequently digs in Boston, cradle of the revolution birthplace of Digital Equipment Corp.; August 21, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Chip S. said...: tails of Brownian motion...

Shades of Sasha Grey!; August 21, 2012 at 7:18 PM
The Dude said...: Even with their VAX array of products there was RISC in buying DEC stock. I made a Compaq to never do that again.; August 21, 2012 at 7:24 PM
chickelit said...: Excusez-moi? Aimez-vous Grey poupon?; August 21, 2012 at 7:26 PM
Chip S. said...: No poupon pour moi.

Et seulement une femme par tasse. Pas de deux.; August 21, 2012 at 7:34 PM
The Dude said...: On your Rolls?

I used to work for a company the owner of which drove a Rolls. Ran over a guy with it. Also, back in '74, if I recall correctly, he also laid off Larry Ellison.

Molokai, it's not just for lepers anymore...; August 21, 2012 at 7:36 PM
Chip S. said...: Ran over a guy with it.

Damn peasants just fly out of the bushes.; August 21, 2012 at 7:38 PM
chickelit said...: Je préfère deux tasses par femme. De préférence, D.; August 21, 2012 at 7:58 PM
Chip S. said...: tassels?

Old-school Betty Page fan?; August 21, 2012 at 8:01 PM
blake said...: "Pathological monsters!"
Cried the terrified mathematician
"Every one of them's
A splinter in my eye"

"I hate the Peano Space
And the Koch Curve
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
The Sierpinski Gasket
Makes me wanna cry"

Then a million miles away
A butterfly flapped its wings
On a cold November day
A man named Benoit Mandlebrot was born!; August 21, 2012 at 8:18 PM
Chip S. said...: Have I told you guys the Benoit Mandelbrot joke before?(Or, more likely, have you already heard it?); August 21, 2012 at 8:21 PM
chickelit said...: The one about Benoit balls?; August 21, 2012 at 8:35 PM
chickelit said...: On a cold November day
A man named Benoit Mandlebrot was born!

In the ghetto!; August 21, 2012 at 8:36 PM
The Dude said...: No, but I am watching Groundhog Day again. I think...; August 21, 2012 at 8:36 PM
Chip S. said...: Q. What does the "B." stand for in "Benoit B. Mandelbrot"?

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A. Benoit B. Mandelbrot; August 21, 2012 at 8:57 PM
chickelit said...: @Chip: Lindsey Meadows = "Leslyn"?; August 21, 2012 at 9:13 PM
Chip S. said...: I see where that might come from name-wise, but I came to like leslyn after a rocky start.

I don't see that happening with Little Miss Porno.; August 21, 2012 at 9:15 PM
chickelit said...: Benoit B. Mandelbrot = Benwah Balls Almond Bread?

I give up. Do tell.; August 21, 2012 at 9:15 PM
chickelit said...: Chip: Lindsey Meadows doesn't give off a female vibe. Nonetheless, because I believe in playing people at face value, I will not question that.; August 21, 2012 at 9:18 PM
Chip S. said...: I give up. Do tell.

But I did!; August 21, 2012 at 9:20 PM
The Dude said...: Yeah, but what does that B. stand for? I am thinkin' Julia. Okay, that was Fatou-ous.; August 21, 2012 at 9:20 PM
chickelit said...: I'm looking for the joke with a microscope.; August 21, 2012 at 9:23 PM
chickelit said...: BTW, "Brownian Motion on the Sierpinski Carpet" comes from Shatless Rugged, right?; August 21, 2012 at 9:25 PM
The Dude said...: “That rug really tied the room together.”; August 21, 2012 at 9:30 PM
Chip S. said...: I had to google Sixty's Fatou reference.

Damn, that was erudite.; August 21, 2012 at 9:34 PM
The Dude said...: There are some really nice examples of Julia and Fatou sets on Wikipedia, which is never wrong.; August 21, 2012 at 9:36 PM
Chip S. said...: I think of it as being reliable on technical stuff, b/c the trolls don't know enough to post misleading shit.

And most of the math stuff is lifted from Wolfram or something like that, I think.; August 21, 2012 at 9:38 PM
The Dude said...: I get that sense, too - they post actual equations and stuff.

We need a shirt that reads "MATH". Yeah, I can see that now...; August 21, 2012 at 9:40 PM
Chip S. said...: If I saw the pic by itself, I'd have thought the Julia set was a Mandelbrot set. How do they differ?; August 21, 2012 at 9:44 PM
The Dude said...: The parameter plane of quadratic polynomials - that is, the plane of possible c-values - gives rise to the famous Mandelbrot set. Indeed, the Mandelbrot set is defined as the set of all c such that J(f_c) is connected. For parameters outside the Mandelbrot set, the Julia set is a Cantor space: in this case it is sometimes referred to as Fatou dust.

In many cases, the Julia set of c looks like the Mandelbrot set in sufficiently small neighborhoods of c. This is true, in particular, for so-called 'Misiurewicz' parameters, i.e. parameters c for which the critical point is pre-periodic. For instance:

At c = i, the shorter, front toe of the forefoot, the Julia set looks like a branched lightning bolt.
At c = -2, the tip of the long spiky tail, the Julia set is a straight line segment.

In other words the Julia sets J(f_c) are locally similar around Misiurewicz points.[7]

Or, at least that's what I read.; August 21, 2012 at 9:52 PM
Chip S. said...: Got it.

At least for blogging purposes.; August 21, 2012 at 9:53 PM
rcocean said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; August 21, 2012 at 11:21 PM
rcocean said...: Vacations always end Dude. You can't get the highs without the lows. If you lived in -say Maui- would you be any happier?

Free association: Frederick March bouncing Myrna Loy on his knee then his boss calls to get him back to work. Classic quote: "Last year it was kill Japs, this year its make money".; August 21, 2012 at 11:39 PM
blake said...: Just take a point called Z
In the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C
And so on

If the series of Zs
Should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set

Mandelbrot Set,
You're a Rorschach Test on fire
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
You're one badass fucking fractal
And you're just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way; August 21, 2012 at 11:41 PM
chickelit said...: This thread has become a Mathusian nightmare.

I wish you guys liked chemistry as much as math.; August 22, 2012 at 12:04 AM
windbag said...: You ate my fractal.; August 22, 2012 at 12:07 AM
Darcy said...: I wish I'd stayed awake in Math class.; August 22, 2012 at 7:40 AM
AllenS said...: Is this new math, or old math? Where'd I put my abacus?; August 22, 2012 at 7:56 AM
Michael Haz said...: I still have my slide rule from HS calculus class.

I pull it out once in a while to befuddle the yutes who grew up with graphing calculators, especially when one of them gets the "Shit! The battery is dead and I can't do math in my head!" look on his or her face.; August 22, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Michael Haz said...: Plus, sometimes when I'm reviewing someone's work and they're sitting at my desk, I'll pull the slide rule out, fuss with it for a few minutes, then look at the person and say "Hmmm. You may wish to revisit your assumptions."

Then I hand back their work and get a cup of coffee.; August 22, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Michael Haz said...: Twenty years of this and I haven't been shot once.

Interestlingly enough, when the work product comes back to me the numbers have been changed!; August 22, 2012 at 9:27 AM
MamaM said...: Not only is this kind of math outside my sphere, I can't figure out the tangent.

How'd the sponge enter the equation?

Titus wetting the grindstone for the umpteenth time?

Consideration of one sidedness by ChipS?

Sixty's tiny bottle solution for holding in feelings?

No, no, in this house of mirrors it has to be something more. One of those juxtaposition thingies where someone's messin' wif yore head.

Back to 8th grade Algebra and the impatient voice of Mrs DeLang who referred to us collectively as "people" when lecturing and dispensing advice. "People, when you find yourself stuck, go back and READ the problem, READ the problem, READ the problem." Even though I spent hours reading problems, I barely passed. It didn't matter when my trains started, or how fast they traveled, they didn't make it to the station on time. Geometry, however was a another story, because there I could SEE the problem.

In geometry, a figure is chiral (and said to have chirality) if it is not identical to its mirror image, or, more precisely, if it cannot be mapped to its mirror image by rotations and translations alone. For example, a right shoe is different from a left shoe, and clockwise is different from counterclockwise.

After reading the problem one more time with my good friend wiki at my side to serve as tutor, I finally manage to solve for X.
Then and only then, do I finally see chickelit's Chirality affirming the endlessly empowering potential of Tits!!!

Gathered along the way as side note: Today the significance of Klein's contributions to geometry is more than evident, but not because those contributions are now seen as strange or wrong. On the contrary, those contributions have become so much a part of our present mathematical thinking that it is hard for us to appreciate their novelty, and the way in which they were not immediately accepted by all his contemporaries.; August 22, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Chip S. said...: I'm still mourning the death of the Mandelbrot joke.

Lloyd Bridges says,

Mandelbrot!
Mandelbrot!
Mandelbrot!; August 22, 2012 at 11:05 AM
chickelit said...: Sixty Grit wrote: Eine kleine bottle would work perfectly.

@MamaM: I think this is where moobius jokes morphed into jokes mocking size.; August 22, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Chip S. said...: @MamaM--Sixty's reference to a Klein bottle was a great riff on moobius strips.

There's a beautiful book on this stuff written for a general audience. Definitely Menger sponge-worthy.; August 22, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Chip S. said...: where moobius jokes morphed into jokes mocking size

It was a morpheme.; August 22, 2012 at 11:25 AM
chickelit said...: I'm looking now at the preface to book from my grad school days called "Chemical Applications Of Group Theory" by F. Albert Cotton. Cotton's book is a classic--and so was he. I tried to memorialize him back here, though I never met the man IRL. I hope the links I put up there still work--this one was amusing.

Cotton was the sort of guy Haz would have cottoned to. In the preface to the afore name book he wrote:
I have attempted to make this the kind of book which 'one can read in bed without a pencil,' as my colleague John Waugh, once aptly described another textbook which had found wide favor because of its down-to-earth character.

Kleine Bleistiffte aside, this erection season will be cruel to the crueress.; August 22, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: Wait....there doesn't seem to be anyway to get the liquor out of the Klein Bottle. Totally useless.

I always enjoyed Algebra and loved word problems (trains and all that) but really sucked at it. I knew what to do and how to solve the problems. The high school teacher was amazed that I could figure out the concepts immediately and STILL get the answer wrong.

The real issue was that I never actually memorized my times tables. Back in 4th grade, I think, I was having some troubles a the 7 times tables and when asking for help....Mrs. Walls ( that skanky bitch ) told me to stop asking her for help because I was smart enough to figure it out on my own and she needed to help the others.

"Oh. Really?!?!?!?" So I just crossed my arms and said the 4th grade equivalent of FUCK YOU. And refused to learn any more. I guess I really showed her. /DOH

Maybe part of the issue was that we traveled extensively when I was in elementary school. I went to at least 8 to 12 different schools before 4th grade. From Michigan, to Mississippi to Oregon, to California. The ones I can remember.

So even though I know WHAT to do, sometimes it takes me longer because I have to go the long way around the basic math because I don't immediately know what 7x8 actually is in my head. Damn you Mrs. Walls. Thank God for calculators.

Geometry was beautiful to me. I can see so many real world applications from making quilts to cutting out stair risers.; August 22, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: This [Sierpinski carpet] would be a great quilt/piecework pattern. I can see it in a mix of aqua blues, greens, indigo and some small amount of yellows. In the center I would put a batik or hand painted water color of some fish in a pale blue wash in an underwater scene with greenery flowing in the current.

The hard geometric lines with the soft natural scene in the middle. Plus the quilting would need to enhance the geometric and be swirling to soften the natural center.

Ta da.; August 22, 2012 at 11:43 AM
Darcy said...: Everyone here has to be better at math than I was and am. I flunked Algebra, retook it and got straight A grades on the retake. But! I really do believe that was because I was crushing on the teacher big time. I retained nothing, though. Mr. Loso would be SO disappointed!; August 22, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Evi L. Bloggerlady said...: Titus might like this...; August 22, 2012 at 4:59 PM
AllenS said...: OK, everyone, I have some most excellent news to share. My tracks for the JD 40 crawler have new pins and bushings installed! Here is a picture of the crane that I built lifting one off of the trailer. Soon I will be able to share more pictures of me putting them on the machine. How exciting will that be!?

BIG BLUE

But first, I have to drill out the holes on the axles where the sprockets attach to because the threads for the JD special bolts are stripped. Tomorrow I'll pick up the drill bit that I ordered (37/64ths) and drill out the old threads, then tap new threads for 5/8ths bolts 18 TPI. B)

No wonder I can't see for shit, I still have my safety glasses on.; August 22, 2012 at 5:41 PM
MamaM said...: How exciting will that be!?

Almost but not quite as exciting as tits but more so than moobs???

That's an impressive looking rig, a tidy barn, and some serious tread!

Sometimes the comments and characters here remind me of the "One Piece at a Time" song by Cash. Something gets built out of leftovers, spares, and special parts, one piece at a time.; August 22, 2012 at 6:06 PM
chickelit said...: "One Piece At A Time"

I adore that song--it reminds me of my dad and my grandad. My link to the song is still working too, which is rare these days: link

/crack; August 22, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Darcy said...: Oh, my. Those are some big...tracks, Allen!; August 22, 2012 at 6:59 PM
AllenS said...: You know what they say, Darcy, big tracks, big...; August 22, 2012 at 7:34 PM
The Dude said...: Nice place, as always, and I like that hoist a lot.

A woman I bought some turning tools from has one like that to load blanks onto her custom lathe. I, however, am limited to what I can lift by myself - in turning blanks and tractor parts. Okay, in all honesty, my tractor is limited too - I had to replace the traction belt the other day and I just picked up the back end of the tractor to get some blocks under it.

Country livin' rocks!; August 22, 2012 at 7:35 PM
Darcy said...: You country livin' guys are studly!

And You know what they say, Darcy, big tracks, big...

...paws? ;-); August 22, 2012 at 7:38 PM
The Dude said...: LOL! Darce, honorary country girl!; August 22, 2012 at 7:40 PM
AllenS said...: No, shoes!; August 22, 2012 at 7:43 PM
Darcy said...: HA! :); August 22, 2012 at 7:49 PM
The Dude said...: Wait, there are new posts and this one is stuck at 99 comments? That will never do. Next!; August 22, 2012 at 8:40 PM
Michael Haz said...: @Allen - Impressive tracks, one guy to another!

I spent two summers while in college working at the Hein-Werner Co. in Waukesha. they built crawler mounted backhoes.

My job was laying out the track for new machines. I'd have to pick up 100 tracks per side, carry them to an assembly floor, lay them out on a chalk line, then use a 48 ounce hammer do drive the pins.

Each shoe weighed 80 pounds. I'd lay out four tracks on my shift. That's 32,000 pounds of shoe in eight hours.

I could feel every muscle and tendon in my body after working a shift. Every tendon and muscle form my fingers to my toes; in my back, chest, torso and arms. I swear. the muscles in my scalp hurt.

At the end of my second summer I asked where the regular guy was. "Medical leave" is was told.

The following year I tended bar.

Hats off to you! hard job well done.; August 22, 2012 at 9:33 PM
MamaM said...: ...a great quilt/piecework pattern. I can see it...

@DBQ Imagination is a two sided coin!

As clearly as lipstick on a moob, I can picture a quilt from your description, right down to the colors, lines and overall form. I might add a touch of orange in some of the yellow areas and a hint of chartreuse in a few of the greens to make it my own, but I liked the idea and the inspiration.

Some of my favorite articles in the rug and quilt magazines my mom used to pass on to me, were the ones where a group was given the same subject as a theme, or the same set of materials to use and asked to come up with their own design. The other favorites were designs derived from nature.

As much as I don't understand the math behind them, I love patterns. In the past, I've used an art pattern to encourage adults and children who didn't think they could draw or felt feeling hesitant about expressing themselves to start by putting 10 elements (1 large circle, 3 small circles, 1horizontal line, 1 jagged line etc.)anywhere they pleased on blank paper and then fill in the spaces with color and pattern. It's no exaggeration to say I've always been surprised and amazed by what they've come up with and created.

Permission and parameters: another variation of the old freedom and responsibility theme from the other high school favorite, Government 101.; August 23, 2012 at 4:46 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: @ Allen.You know what they say, Darcy, big tracks, big

Big toys for big boys. I showed my husband and he was..."WOW. Look at that...look at his shop...I want that...I hate him." In a very jealous..I want that attitude.

@ MammaM

I don't quilt as much as I used to but now that I'm semi-retired, I'm getting back into the groove. Pretty much anything I see inspires a quilt or fabric art idea. I'm getting more into the natural fabric art look and less into geometric tradition. What I love is working with the colors and textures of the fabrics to create a whole new idea that (most of the time) works well together. Combining the fabrics with hand painted and amended pieces. Less of actual functional quilts and more fabric art wall pieces.; August 23, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: @ Darcy.....

Country Girl!!; August 23, 2012 at 12:01 PM
MamaM said...: DBQ...I've still working on one using a kite shape
that creates a triangle when the three kite points are together. I like it because the overall visual includes large and small triangles, depending on how you look.

Bought a new book this spring showing a technique I haven't yet tried that looks exciting and sounds similar to what I hear you describing, including the use of hand painted pieces.

Create your own free-form quilts by Rayna Gillman; August 23, 2012 at 2:12 PM

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