Does this happen to you?
07-08-2013, 11:28 AM
#31
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: NE Texas
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After having company for the long holiday weekend I got behind on my emails. Told my DH after breakfast this morning I was going to catch up on my emails, and he replied, "There goes the day!" He can't understand how one site leads to another. I find it fascinating!
07-08-2013, 12:39 PM
#32
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Dallas area, Texas, USA
Posts: 3,042
I have been down that rabbit hole many a time and enjoyed every step. Luckily, I'm not committed to getting anything done on a deadline! It's lucky, also, that we didn't have computers when I was in college. I would have come out with an education, but certainly not the one that was intended. Then again, maybe I would have known myself better and made wiser choices. I hope that's the case for today's young ones.
07-08-2013, 01:57 PM
#33
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Homosassa, FL
Posts: 2,267
Originally Posted by ranger
I got up this morning & headed to the computer to spend a few minutes checking out QB PICTURES section. Noticed DoriDeS's quilt pic (http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t225198.html) and liked it.
Decided to check out similar quilts using Mr.. Google images. While looking at the images, I came across
a quilt pic and the geometric designed intrigued me so, of course, I visited the website to learn more about it.
Turns out the quilt design was a representation of the Fibonacci numbers. Fibonacci? who's that?
Headed to Wikipedia to learn more and ended up veering off to read about Lucas numbers and the Golden Ratio.I learned that the Golden Ratio is used for quilting (among other things) to get the best ratio in rectangular and other quilt designs. I also learned that there are books of puzzles that are based on the F. Numbers.
Since I love puzzles, both pencil and jigsaw, I google "puzzles' and find JigZone (http://www.jigzone.com/) website. I've been there before but hadn't visited for a long time.
There I spent the best part of an hour doing an animal jigsaw puzzle. So my few minutes of computer time turned into quite a bit longer than that.
This is why I have so many quilt UFOs. Good thing I'm retired!
Does this sort of thing happen to you? The internet is addicting...at least it seems that way to me!
Decided to check out similar quilts using Mr.. Google images. While looking at the images, I came across
a quilt pic and the geometric designed intrigued me so, of course, I visited the website to learn more about it.
Turns out the quilt design was a representation of the Fibonacci numbers. Fibonacci? who's that?
Headed to Wikipedia to learn more and ended up veering off to read about Lucas numbers and the Golden Ratio.I learned that the Golden Ratio is used for quilting (among other things) to get the best ratio in rectangular and other quilt designs. I also learned that there are books of puzzles that are based on the F. Numbers.
Since I love puzzles, both pencil and jigsaw, I google "puzzles' and find JigZone (http://www.jigzone.com/) website. I've been there before but hadn't visited for a long time.
There I spent the best part of an hour doing an animal jigsaw puzzle. So my few minutes of computer time turned into quite a bit longer than that.
This is why I have so many quilt UFOs. Good thing I'm retired!
Does this sort of thing happen to you? The internet is addicting...at least it seems that way to me!
07-09-2013, 07:49 PM
#34
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Joplin, Missouri
Posts: 1,058
Well, I just spent an hour more than I intended on the computer looking at Fibonacci numbers, golden ratio, and playing with jigsaw puzzles.. I love on line jigsaw puzzles.. everything is facing the correct way!! Thanks for the fun.. I enjoyed myself!
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