Come See My Octothorp Quilt

While I was getting my place on the sofa ready to watch Blue Bloods

last night Derby decided it was a nice nesting spot for him to

take a nap.  Needless to say - I didn't disturb him - but I did

use the word 'treat' which made him hightail it into the kitchen

of his own accord.  Sneaky but effective.

 Julep ... grooming appointments set in two weeks.

 A simple pattern to use the rest of this dog fabric 

so it's out of my stash.  I think it looks nice.

 The back fabric I found on-line and on sale for $2.99/yard.

 The white fabric has silver dots to give this quilt a little punch.

 The # Quilt.

When I was growing up we called this a pound sign {#}

now kids are calling it a hashtag ... it's hashtag this

and hashtag that ... I personally don't get it so I will looked it up.

 According to Wikipedia a hashtag is ... a type of label or metadata

tag used on social networks and microblogging [now what's that?}

services which makes it easier for users to find messages with a 

specific theme or content.  Users create and use hashtags by placing the

hash character [or pound sign #] [also known as number sign or

octothorpe {new word for me} in front of a word either in the main

text of a message or at the end. 

 The ... hashtag ... pound sign ... octothorps

According to Wikipedia ... stories abound about who first called the

# sign an 'octothorps' [which can also be spelled 'octothorp].  Most

of those tales link the name to various telephone workers in the

1960s, and all claim the 'octo-' part refers to the eight points on

the symbol, but the 'thorpe' remains a mystery.

 Now that I got that hashtag nonsense out of my system here's

a new project I just started.  This pattern was pulled from one

of those free magazine I picked up from the Guild.  It's a nice

way to use small block leftovers.  

I still have a lot of bits and pieces of holiday fabric to work

with and my sewing room floor [on this side of the room]

is a mess.  I may have found a pattern using that red flower

amaryllis fabric to the right of Julep.  I need to re-look 

at that pattern today and make a determination if it

will work.  Until then ... Katie