miscellaneous

The Large Squares measure from 30 x 30 cm up to 40 x 40 cm.


The patterns sometimes vary in size and density/granularity but if you count the holes it comes down to approximately:
100 stitches for 30 cm and 140 stitches for 40 cm.
So, that makes
100 x 100 = 10.000 stitches
140 x 140 = 19.600 stitches.


Let's take 15.000 stitches for one Large Square average.


This means for me:      5 x 15.000 -  75.000
And for my mother:     19 x 15.000 = 285.000

That makes a total of:               360.000 cross stitches.

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This is our cat Monkie, a very sweet Norwegian forest cat

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Here's some interesting stuff about the Fibonacci Row

Fibonacci number

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A tiling with squares whose sides are successive Fibonacci numbers in length

A Fibonacci spiral created by drawing circular arcs connecting the opposite corners of squares in the Fibonacci tiling; this one uses squares of sizes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and 34. See golden spiral.

In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers or Fibonacci series or Fibonacci sequence are the numbers in the following integer sequence:

 (sequence A000045 in OEIS).

By definition, the first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two.

In mathematical terms, the sequence F_n of Fibonacci numbers is defined by the recurrence relation

with seed values^[1]

The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo of Pisa, who was known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci's 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics,^[2] although the sequence had been described earlier in Indian mathematics.^[3][4][5] (By modern convention, the sequence begins with F₀ = 0. The Liber Abacibegan the sequence with F₁ = 1, omitting the initial 0, and the sequence is still written this way by some.)

Fibonacci numbers are closely related to Lucas numbers in that they are a complementary pair of Lucas sequences. They are intimately connected with the golden ratio, for example the closest rational approximations to the ratio are 2/1, 3/2, 5/3, 8/5, ... . Applications include computer algorithms such as the Fibonacci search technique and the Fibonacci heap data structure, and graphs called Fibonacci cubes used for interconnecting parallel and distributed systems. They also appear in biological settings,^[6]such as branching in trees, Phyllotaxis (the arrangement of leaves on a stem), the fruit spouts of a pineapple,^[7] the flowering of artichoke, an uncurling fern and the arrangement of a pine cone.^[8]

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Hera are some of my youtube films.

Friends of us have moved to France two years ago. We visited them in June 2010 and had a wonderful time. Enjoy our enjoying:

We went there again in February 2011 and had even more fun then. We met with little baby lamb Kiki, so sweet.

During our summer holiday in 2010 we went shopping in Avignon (France) which was a great succes with the then 15-year old daughters.

We also talked, ate and drank a lot that same holiday. And we took all the time to do so. The following film had to be split in two, that much time it took to film the last part of the dinner. Watch the dusk turn slowly into darkness.

Part 1 is linked here:  Aan tafel 1

And this is part 2:

In the summer of 2009 we visited the beautiful island of Corsica in the Mediterranean See. We will surely go back there, at least for 7 weeks and at least with 7 guitars in the car. Here some impressions.

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