There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
I drove to Kissimmee, FL on 12/27 to avoid Pennsylvania's winter and stay with my niece.
Besides my Janome 7700 and more quilting projects than clothing, I packed my 3 fondue pots for a party and my favorite cookbooks. There is a quilting guild less than 2 miles away, so I joined The Patchers of Time. It is wonderful. At the St. Cloud Community Center, they have a Sit & Sew every Tuesday From 8am to 4 pm.
My WIP project started on 6/24/2010 from a class at Steve's Sewing & Vacuum, King of Prussia, PA. Susan Shiveley, Midnight Owl Quilts designed the pattern - Bodacious Batiks
and taught the class. At the January Tuesday Sit & Sew I tackled this monster project again. I had completed only 35 blocks of the 85 blocks necessary for a queen size quilt. Moda Basic Grey Figgy Pudding - 80 charm squares, some fat quarter and yardage bought in 2010. Barely had enough for the setting triangles and the first border. Lastly I wanted to finish with a 10" border. How was I going to match the border fabric for this quilt? Amazing, the Moda fabric line - Grunge is still in print. So waiting for the fabric to arrive and finally be done and off to my favorite long arm quilter, Chris.
The finished size will be 98" x 100".