Val Ursulak sent me this photo of her Birds in Toyland quilt… isn’t it cute!!! Val finished her quilt in record time so that she could have it up for this Christmas. I love everything about this quilt—thank you, Val, for sharing it with us.
The pattern for Birds in Toyland is included in the class that I teach online at Creative Spark. The book with the pattern will be available Spring 2022.
The random number generator chose Carri to receive a package of Extra Long (2 1/4 inch) Magic Pins. As with all the magic pin varieties, this one comes with heat resistant, comfort grip handles. The pins are a little bit flexible and come to a very sharp point. To shop for all the varieties of pine we carry in our store, click here. Pins are at the bottom of the first page and the top of the second one. And have a very Merry Christmas, everyone!
I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!
Wow… what a building! I went because my friend, Cece, told me not to miss it. I stayed for the tour because a nice, but insistent, docent said that it was a much better use of an hour than shopping would be. She was right!
The famous NY Public Library is housed in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. It’s a huge, beautiful, and you can read a lot more about it here. I’m going to share some of the pictures I took…
Patience, or Fortitude, on guard at the front door on Fifth Avenue:
These are the actual, for real, animals from Winnie-the-Pooh:
These stuffed animals have been well-loved, worn, and mended. Piglet is much flatter than I imagined he would be—and tiny!
This illustrated book from the 14th century (if I remember correctly) is lovely, with bright colors and the penmanship is totally amazing. But I could not help thinking of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I can hear it playing in my head :-).
The Rose Reading room is huge, beautiful, and very quiet because it is for reading. Seriously. You can get in to read or on a tour. You can no longer walk through it as a tourist who is not going to read.
The chairs look comfy…
As I said, lions are the mascot. This one is on a drinking fountain. The library opened in 1911 and the marble looks worn enough that it may be original to the building.
The library houses so many collections, books both rare and common, maps, photographs, original works of all kinds… there is just so much. It is a treasure worth visiting!
That is either Patience or Fortitude in front of the NYC Public library, decked out with greenery.
These are some of the many shop windows I saw. It could be I only noticed the ones with lots of aqua OR aqua was the color this year. it could also be that I kept taking pictures of the windows at Anthropologie.
Decorations were not limited to windows…
And, of course, there are the angels, the tree, and the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Center that are festive and a little crowded, both in the daytime and at night…
Times Square is always bright and festive and I can’t help but love it :-).
I hope these made you smile!
I went to NYC to visit our son, Jeff, and Ted! Ted-the-cat pre-dates the pandemic, but I didn’t get to meet him then. It takes Ted awhile to get used to people so when he got that close to me I felt special!
I went to The Met and The MoMa and had a great time. I love portraits and statues because the expressions on the faces show that people then and people now must be feeling the same kinds of feelings. These from The Met:
And then there are those times when art makes you giggle. Like these two Medieval busts… they are the mean girls from high school:
Or here, I can hear them saying to each other: Here, look over here! No. I say look over here! It’s over HERE!!!
There are more female artists on display at both museums and one has to wonder why it has taken so long!!! There was a large exhibit of pieces (furniture, paintings, prints, and more) by Sophie Taeuber-Arp that was amazing. Here is just one painting from the exhibit…
She died at the age of 53 in 1942 from accidental carbon-monoxide poisoning in her sleep.
Also at the MoMa you will find a wonderful exhibit of Alexander Calder‘s work. The shadows are integral to the beauty of the forms and the museum has them spaced and lit very well.
That’s probably enough for today. I’ll post more in the next few days :-).
eeBoo’s Space Adventure Scratch Paper Stickers go to Kathy Harris! She will receive the pad with 6 pages of stickers and the bamboo stick used to scratch cosmic designs into the shaped stickers. Just one of the toys from our special toys and stocking stuffers page.
I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!
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