fibertwister

Lots of fabric stores offer Block of the month (BOM) programs. Even though I do not buy them from stores, with all the quilting projects I have, I can very likely establish a quilting routine that would include “block of the day” (BOD), “Block of the Week” (BOW) and “BOM” piecing, according to how complicated the blocks are in my various projects.

Then, on some days, I could devote a “block equivalency” to quilting.

Oh, and I am allowed to skip days ;-)

I actually got started on this one, be in an impure manner. I’d wanted to learn a bit about 3D modeling for several years, and got around to it last year. I fisrt used 3D SketchUp to get the basics. Since then, I have moved on to Blender 3D. It is on the back burner for the moment, but I have been using fractal generated images, and some fractal scripting for different elements of a small part of a world I am designing. I sent a few advance invitations which got accepted :-)

As a kid, I had the opportunity to learn the recorder in school. Though I never got to hear them, a great uncle and a cousin of my Mom had both played the flute in the Montreal symphonic orchestra, so there was a bit of musical precedent in the family. I was very excited when my Mom offered to pay for half of a flute, and subsequent flute lessons, I came up with the other half of the money (I was delivering newspapers, I was 12-13). That was so great!

In the following years, I also learned some guitar in high school plus a tiny bit of piano. I was also lucky that my young brother went to a special program music school: I got to try his violin.

From all these trials with different instrument types, wind, strings and tones, I figured that if I had the money, I would want to play either tenor saxophone or the cello. I also think in a perfect world, everyone should have easy access to a piano.

Today, I still want to learn the cello. I have not idea how much money is involved, thought I suppose I could plan for that. The biggest hurdle for now is that I do not have the time to engage in this, but I expect I will within the next few years.