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Today at work I was building centerpieces and had to figure out how to create a centerpiece that was cylindrical, but travels flat and can be weighted so it stays on tables at outdoor events.

Long story short, I had to use pi. YES. Pi.

So I was talking to my beau, who is an engineer (by all accounts — he’s certified, but working on his masters towards his PhD) and I said “So I used pi. That qualifies me to be an engineer, right?” Jokingly, of course.

But then I realized, that is NO different than people that call themselves “designers” because they have fumbled their way through photoshop and created some crap flyer.

Other than the obvious difference: Engineers who aren’t qualified kill people. Very rarely would a designer kill somebody (besides from blood loss from the eyeballs) with bad design.

Have some knowledge? Yes. Qualified. Certainly not.

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I’ve been working on a string quilt for about a month or so now… annnnnd it’s pretty ugly.

Well, that started out being kind of the point. I wanted to make an ugly quilt for my sister to practice doing the string technique, but I realize now that I have invested so much time in this project, and that maybe I should have done a “for real” string quilt instead (next project — black and white string quilt — a for real one).

Anywho, I’ve got block A all put together and am working on block B. I haven’t decided if I’m going to make an X out of block B or if I’m going to make it the same directional pattern as block A.

Here’s the blocks. My scanner wasn’t big enough to scan the entire block in, so I just scanned a square and duplicated it in photoshop (all quilters need photoshop!).

Block A

Block B (version 1)

Block B — version 2 (I like the first one better, but this works better in the layout)

And here’s why I say ALL QUILTERS need photoshop! Mock it up before you sew it so you know it looks fabulous (I will be doing this for my next serious quilt).  That way you’re not investing a ton of time in something that ends up looking crappy.  I mocked up a bunch of fabrics for my coin stack quilt…and it turned out fantastic.

Possible Quilt Layout…

Thoughts… suggestions? I thought about putting 3-4 inches of white sashing between each block so there’s an area of rest. It’s just soooo busy.  A string quilt would work best I think with solids… or maybe I’m just looking at it on screen like a design and not as a quilt so I’m overthinking it. Either way. I’m not looking forward to pulling all the paper off block B.  Argh.

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— good ones too — at least for a non-designer.

The boyfriend likes to photoshop his head onto other people in pictures of celebrities for a hilarious result. He uses these pictures for his facebook profile picture.

In the beginning they weren’t so convincing, but the last one he did was pretty darn good.

Here is a gallery of his awesome photoshopped pictures.

Here’s a new one:

this one is kind of creepy.

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