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Patches of stars : 17 quilt patterns and a gallery of inspiring antique quilts
The third book in Edyta Sitar's best-selling \"Patches\" series celebrates a quintessential quiltmaking motif: the star. Star blocks first take center stage in a gallery of breathtaking antique quilts, from modest, make-do designs to astonishing showstoppers. Then, Edyta shares instructions for 17 star-studded quilts; many of the designs were inspired by her antiques collection. From the humble Sawtooth Star to dazzling renditions of Lone Star, Feathered Star, and more, the latest book from Laundry Basket Quilts will inspire quilters to reach for the stars.
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Patches, Patchworks, and Epsilon Terms: A Neo-Carnapian Account of Theoretical Terms in Science
In the last decades, scientific laws and concepts have been increasingly conceptualized as a patchwork of contextual and indeterminate entities. These patchwork constructions are sometimes claimed to be incompatible with traditional views of scientific theories and concepts, but it is difficult to assess such claims due to the informal character of these approaches. In this paper, we will show that patchwork approaches pose a new problem of theoretical terms. Specifically, we will demonstrate how a toy example of a patchwork structure might trivialize Carnap’s semantics for theoretical terms based upon epsilon calculus. However, as we will see, this new problem of theoretical terms can be given a neo-Carnapian solution, by generalizing Carnap’s account of theoretical terms in such a way that it applies also to patchwork constructions. Our neo-Carnapian approach to theoretical terms will also demonstrate that the analytic/synthetic distinction is meaningful even for patchwork structures.
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The Best of Both Worlds: Adaptation During Natural Tasks Produces Long-Lasting Plasticity in Perceptual Ocular Dominance
In human vision, one eye is usually stronger than the other. This is called ocular dominance. Extremely imbalanced ocular dominance can be found among certain patient groups, for example, in patients with amblyopia. Here, we introduce a novel method to rebalance ocular dominance. We developed an altered-reality system that subjects used to interact with the natural world, the appearance of which was changed through a real-time image process. Several daily adaptation sessions lasting 3 hr each reduced sensory ocular dominance in adults who were not diagnosed with amblyopia and improved vision in patients with amblyopia. Surprising additional strengthening was found over the subsequent 2 months, when subjects experienced natural vision only. Our method effectively trains subjects to use both eyes in the wide variety of everyday tasks. The transfer of this training to everyday vision likely produced the continuing growth in effects during the months after the training. These findings are promising for the application of this method in future clinical research on amblyopia.
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Powered properties, modal continuity, and the patchwork principle
The principle of modal continuity has become an increasingly popular bit of modal epistemology, featuring prominently in debates about mereology, value, causation, and theism. It claims, roughly, that degreed properties are modally unified. So, if the property of being three inches tall is exemplifiable, so is the property of being four inches tall, and five inches tall, etc. Despite its plausibility, in this paper I show that there is a class of counterexamples to modal continuity: what I call ‘powered properties.’ More surprisingly, I show that an instance of these powered properties is entailed by another widely popular family of modal principles: the Lewisian patchwork principles, also known as cut-and-paste, or recombination, principles. Thus, despite appearing to be similar, and motivated by plenitudinous intuitions about the nature of modality, it turns out that the continuity and recombination approaches to modality rely on crucially different pictures of plenitude.
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The weekend quilter : 25+ fabulous quilts to make in a weekend
Do you miss your quilting hobby because of how much time it usually takes to create a patchwork masterpiece? The Weekend Quilter is the perfect book for those who love to quilt, but don't have time for long, laborious projects. Featuring 26 step-by-step projects for traditional and modern quilts that are easy to make in a single weekend, The Weekend Quilter shows you how to create beautiful patchwork designs using a rotary cutter and sewing machine to revolutionize the way you quilt. -- Amazon.
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Benardete paradoxes, patchwork principles, and the infinite past
Benardete paradoxes involve a beginningless set each member of which satisfies some predicate just in case no earlier member satisfies it. Such paradoxes have been wielded on behalf of arguments for the impossibility of an infinite past. These arguments often deploy patchwork principles in support of their key linking premise. Here I argue that patchwork principles fail to justify this key premise.
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Gemology : transforming fabrics into facets
\"Welcome to the lab. Gemstone shapes are trending everywhere, from lighting to clothing and furniture, too! Now, Patchwork Lab: Gemology teaches you how to bring some of that sparkle to your quilts using Andrea Tsang Jackson's flawless graded paper piecing patterns. Ready to get started? Jackson will walk you through the fundamentals of paper piecing and effective color selection, then show you how to create her nine traditional gems using as few as five fabrics each! Use these blocks to create a pillow, grace the front of your favorie bag or position it as the centerpiece in your favorite medallion quilt pattern. Can't get enough of that sparkle? Use one of her six quilt projects to show off your new skills, from a sweet coin purse featuring a single favorite block to a large sampler quilt filled with all of the shapes. Looking to design a piece all your own? Our Patchwork Lab format allows you to experiement to your heart's content by ensuring you have a selection of four finished quilt block sizes for each shape, from 6\" to 24\", so you will be sure to enjoy styling a setting all your own. Looking for a unique and personal gift? You can't go wrong with a customized block featuring their bithstone and Tsang Jackson helps you get started by including a handy birthstone chart that lists specific fabric colors for each month to make shopping easy. If you've ever wanted to wrap yourself in diamonds, now you can... just bypass the jewelry store and head to your favorite fabric store instead!\" -- Inside jacket flap.
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Making (Slowly) as Method: Piecing, Stitching and Steeping Metaphors for Multiple Methodologies
How and what do we make through method? This paper imagines the processes of designing and carrying out socio-environmental research through the lens of a slow, creative craft form: sewing a patchworked piece from hand-dyed fabric samples. In doing so, it contributes to thinking about how methodologies are pieced and stitched together from multiple parts. Based on early findings from an extended research project exploring the practice of natural textile dyeing in the UK, I offer a range of textile processes for thinking through the creative dimensions of the doing of methodological work. The quilt-like piece I am attempting to make from plant-dyed fabric is at once the object, objective, and method in this study. I draw on auto-ethnographic reflections on my attempts to begin learning natural dyeing and sewing skills, suggesting piecing, stitching, and steeping may be useful, tactile metaphors for thinking through the early, often messy and uncertain stages of multi-sited and multi-method qualitative research. As such, I build on and extend recent discussions about ‘patchwork ethnography’, an approach recognising that the realities of ethnographic research in practice are often fragmented, non-linear, and intricately shaped by researchers’ everyday lives and commitments. The paper also offers insight into the potentials and pitfalls of intentionally ‘slow’ scholarship that aims to disrupt the urgent temporalities of research projects as they are often imagined.
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