Acronyms

I just this past month celebrated my 16 year working at Moda Fabric/Unitednotions. I will never forget being in a meeting with the tech people and everyone was talking in acronyms. By the time I left the meeting I had the worst headache and felt like I was the dumbest person  in the room. At that time I swore I would never talk in three letter code. 

Once texting and instant messaging came along I had to eat my words (EMW for short)

 I recently bought a book for my mom, since she is into  texting now and thought I would share
some of the Definition of Acronyms

You know those silly little things the kids do to keep from speeding complete words or using complete sentences when communication with their friends?

F2T- free to talk

BFF- of course best friends forever

EML- email me later

CUL8R- see you later

CULA- see you later alligator

^5- high five

Some that I am going to work into my life.

EAK- eating at keyboard

CY- calm yourself

These are the ones I am sharing with my mom.

Now that the Seniors have become more tech savy there is a 

set of acronyms popping up for them as we'll.

ATD- at the doctor's

FWIW- forgot where I was

CUATSC- see you at the senior center

DWI- driving while incontinent

FYI- found your insulin

GHA- got heartburn again

HGBM- had good bowel movement

CGU- can't get up

BYOT- bring your own teeth

CBM- covered by Medicare

And a new take on an old classic

BFF- best friend fell

 Side note: My mom asked my kids if they new what "sexting" was? 

I wish I had recorded how that conversation went down.

Have a great weekend.

Don't text and drive.

-modalissa

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Friday Greatness

I love anything Soul Pancake.

How great is this?

  

 I think I am going to go sit in the ball pit at 

Chuckie Cheese this weekend and see who I met.

Have a great weekend.

-modalissa

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Too Early for Candy Corn?

At moda we initiated a staff challenge.

We were designing some basic 12 pack patterns using Bella solids. These patterns were designed as"blueprints". No color, just let your imagination decide.

 To test the process, several of the office staff jumped in to take the color challenge.

I choose Peaks as my quilt pattern. 

It was selected to be featured in the current issue of QUILT, April/May 2013. 

They called it Candy Corn because that is exactly what it looks like.

 

Working with all solids is not just for the Amish. 

However, it was a bit of a challenge for me. 

I learned to quilt in the days of muslin backgrounds and little tiny brown calicos. 

I was taught solids were not forgiving.

 My quilting teacher would say, "If your points don't match it will really jump out,
so stay clear of solids." This is the same teacher that wouldn't let me use plaids.

EGADS!
Thank goodness time has changed and we have so many more fabric options. 

30 years later and we probably have too many options. 

How does one decide?

If you want to take on a solid project but are not sure that you may be breaking the 

"color wheel code" 

of using primary, secondary or complementary 

colors effectively, do this.

Pick your absolutely favorite fabric with TONS of colors. 

Choose your absolutely fav fabric. Pick solids that match the print. 

Remove the print fabric and you will have the perfect combination of solids.

You will need 12 fat quarters and a background.

Add a punch of color by using your colorful print as the back. 

I used a Zen Chic grey pindot as my binding. It was a bit unexpected. I love it!

 

I am so into oranges, greys and citrus colors that I 

didn't mean for the quilt to look like candy corn.

 Okay, not really. 

This design would make adorable Christmas trees also.

Ask at your favorite store to see if they are offering 12 pack quilt projects.

Thanks, Maggi Honeyman for the quilting. You're the greatest!

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National Quilt/Craft Month

Looky, looky, I am a cruise director and didn't even know it.

 I better really get after loosing those 20 pounds! 

Sarah Castenada is the crusie organizer, so join as we play a fun game 

during the month of March on the Moda blog

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Love my pirate hat!

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Blogger Girls Quilt Along 3

Can you believe it is already March? 

I love the technique and rulers used on this block so I was inspired to 

do something a little different. Be sure and check out off the bloggers 

posts for color options and then Monique's blog for block instructions.

This could very well be my favorite block so far.

Monique offers 2 color versions in her instructions, so the more

 I looked at the block,

 the more intrigued I was.

 Shown above is he color placement per the block instructions.

 

I just changed one simple triangle and it gave me a whole new block.

Can you see which triangle I changed? 

 

I wondered what would happen if I made a quilt from just this block. 

How much movement would it have? 

Would it create secondary designs?

So I played with the exact fabrics but changing the 

fabric placement slightly

 to have two versions of the same block, shown above.

Then, 

 

 I thought what about putting the blocks on point. 

Everything is always better on point. I used just one block and 

look how cool and graphic it turned out. Love it!!

 

Stop by and see the color options at the other blogger girls.

Monique From Open Gate Quilts - opengatequilts.blogspot.com/

Sherri from A Quilting Life - aquiltinglife.blogspot.com

Thelma from Cupcakes ‘n Daisies ~ cupcakesndaisies.blogspot.com

Lissa from Moda  Lissa  ~ ModaLissa.blogspot.com

Denise from Quilter’s  Window ~ Quilterswindow.com/blog/

Nicole from Sister’s Choice  ~  sisterschoice.typepad.com

Lisa from Stashmaster ~ The-Stashmaster.blogspot.com

Instructions for block 3 can be found at Open Gate.

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