What have I made this time?

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Urban Block for Marianne by Lynne @ Lilys Quilts

OK so occasionally I make a block and I know what it is and then, when it's made, it looks like something else (if I ask my husband, his usual response is some comedy body part in the nether regions). So I'm going to give you no clues as to what this is supposed to be and hope that everyone single one of you sees what I was trying to make but will laugh very hard if you all see something completely unrelated as happened with my post-box-that-looked-like-a-penis.

Comments

  1. Theresa17 February 2012 at 14:53

    I'm really sorry but I thought it was an axe when I first saw the picture. Now I'm veering towards a vase with the stem of a flower in it...with the flower to come later. Love the purple colours.

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  2. Cameron H17 February 2012 at 14:54

    My first instinct was mortar and pestle, but now maybe vase and flower stem?

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  3. B Greene17 February 2012 at 14:55

    I can see a nuclear reactor - possibly in mid-meltdown. But I am sure it is something much more wonderful than that (unless you are making a statement quilt!).

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  4. Reene@Nellie's Niceties17 February 2012 at 15:01

    A wonky spade?

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  5. Unknown17 February 2012 at 15:01

    Cooling tower? With grape juice steam coming out the top?

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  6. Ruth17 February 2012 at 15:04

    I thought vase too. But the colour of the 'flower stem' would be creative...or perhaps it is a power station cooling tower.

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  7. Nedra17 February 2012 at 15:05

    Oh, Lynne, where is your mind?
    Sorry, I must tease!
    Must be the cook in me because I see a pot with a spoon handle:)

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  8. Claire Jain17 February 2012 at 15:08

    I think it looks like a table with a purple ribbon on it :-)

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  9. Sadie17 February 2012 at 15:08

    I see either a cooling tower, or an ink pot with a pen in it.

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  10. Nancy D.17 February 2012 at 15:09

    I see a smokestack with smoke drifting out.

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  11. Linda Coleman17 February 2012 at 15:13

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  12. Linda Coleman17 February 2012 at 15:14

    large industrial chimney with a plume of smoke

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  13. Annabella17 February 2012 at 15:17

    As Linda says, a large industrial chimney with smoke..but I`m going to be totally wrong and you`ll then announce that you are giving away a huge box of shot cotton to the person who guessed correctly and I`ll wish I had tried harder.

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  14. Retrogirl17 February 2012 at 15:19

    I thought mortar & pestle, immediately too, even in the thumbnail on reader...but also see the nuclear reactor possibility.

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  15. Steph F.17 February 2012 at 15:19

    Too funny about the poor clock!

    I, too, thought it looked like the symbol I see at pharmacies - mortar and pestle?

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  16. The Calico Cat17 February 2012 at 15:23

    I see a nuclear reactor.

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  17. Jo Ann17 February 2012 at 15:24

    I think it looks like a smoke stack, perhaps from a power plant.

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  18. Yvonne@Nellie's Niceties17 February 2012 at 15:26

    A hat with a purple streamer maybe by that famous hat man whose name escapes me at the moment! :)

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  19. ♥Duff17 February 2012 at 15:35

    yes, Yvonne, that would be Liberace or Elton John.

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  20. AmandaK@whatthebobbin17 February 2012 at 15:35

    A fountain pen in an inkwell?

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  21. ♥Duff17 February 2012 at 15:36

    did I forget to mention the Mad Hatter?

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  22. Shevvy17 February 2012 at 15:41

    I see either a vase with a very thick stem or a big chimney with smoke.

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  23. diane17 February 2012 at 15:42

    My first thought was an old-fashioned inkwell with the pen sticking out.

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  24. Annie17 February 2012 at 15:52

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  25. MC17 February 2012 at 15:56

    Feather resting in an inkwell?

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  26. Nicky17 February 2012 at 15:56

    I thought cooling tower too! Or is it a purple pipe ?

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  27. Wacky Woman17 February 2012 at 16:04

    I'm sure it's me and the early morning for me; but, it is all coffee and steam for me.

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  28. www.randomthoughtsdoordi.com17 February 2012 at 16:11

    a vase with a weird purple stem coming out of it?

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  29. Michelle17 February 2012 at 16:13

    I see a mortar and pestle.

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  30. Ben D17 February 2012 at 16:15

    I immediately thought of this.

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  31. Sallie17 February 2012 at 16:17

    nuclear reactor was my first thought

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  32. Sarah PingsAndNeedles17 February 2012 at 16:18

    At first I thought it was a tree trunk submerged in a river - you know how you get that diffractiony thing (?!) but then I saw a pestle and mortar and finally SMOG, so I'm going with a cooling tower or gas towery thing ...

    all bets hedged? tick!

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  33. Reene@Nellie's Niceties17 February 2012 at 16:18

    Mum, Philip something is the hat man...Tracey or Stacey or something like that :)
    An upside down tornado?

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  34. Marta S.17 February 2012 at 16:28

    Nuclear power plant for sure!

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  35. Mrs Flying Blind...17 February 2012 at 16:28

    I cheated, but it kind of looks like a pot to piss in (with a bit of a worrying purple ailment) x

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  36. Anonymous17 February 2012 at 16:32

    I think it's a glass of blueberry lemonade with a huge straw :-))

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  37. sallgood17 February 2012 at 16:36

    I saw smoke and tower first, but if you turn the block, I see juice pouring from a small pitcher...whatever it is,I love the colors!

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  38. NancyinSTL17 February 2012 at 16:39

    I first thought a mustache cup & brush, inkwell & feather or a mortar & pestle. Then I stared and stared, trying to think out of the box. Then, I saw a tornado.

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  39. Eva17 February 2012 at 16:44

    nuclear reactor here, too ... Now I'm trying to think what else it could be ... inkpot and feather?

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  40. Anonymous17 February 2012 at 16:52

    It's definitely an old-fashioned ink well with quilt...

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  41. Sarah17 February 2012 at 16:58

    I see cooling towers! (Like these:) http://www.flickr.com/photos/blazeral/318286041/

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  42. jednoiglec17 February 2012 at 16:58

    I've got the same impression as some of the girls: chimney or reactor.

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  43. Jules17 February 2012 at 17:02

    nuclear reactor cooling tower? it looks very modern though so does that count?

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  44. Heather17 February 2012 at 17:05

    Perhaps a flower vase with a flower stem. But my first thought was pouring something into a container.

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  45. Jenny17 February 2012 at 17:08

    he..he..he..at least it's one block...I made a whole bargello quilt that ended up looking like a vagina!

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  46. slfranks417 February 2012 at 17:19

    I see a nuclear reactor. lol

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  47. Annie17 February 2012 at 17:40

    I've come and deleted my digusting comment and I think it's the top of a vase and flower stem.

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  48. Unknown17 February 2012 at 17:41

    It looks like a Nuclear Reactor to me. I am guessing that is not what you wanted to hear. :(

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  49. Mary Menzer17 February 2012 at 17:43

    At first I saw a nuclear reactor with smoke coming out. And I see several others posted the same thing. I was sure that wasn't going to be the answer, so I am going with a vase with a stem.

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  50. Snoozie17 February 2012 at 17:47

    pen in an ink pot?

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  51. Michele17 February 2012 at 17:53

    When I study it, I see not something coming out but something going in....perhaps coffee being poured into a mug?

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  52. Carla17 February 2012 at 18:03

    To it looks like a vase and a flower stem.

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  53. linda17 February 2012 at 18:07

    i thought it was an old fashioned inkwell with pen !!!

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  54. Ella17 February 2012 at 18:16

    I thought Mortar and pestle....

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  55. Sheila17 February 2012 at 18:17

    I see the inkwell & quill too, glad some others did too.

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  56. Ella17 February 2012 at 18:17

    Tornado?

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  57. www.randomthoughtsdoordi.com17 February 2012 at 18:23

    yeah!

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  58. Helen17 February 2012 at 18:35

    I think a castle tower with a modern rainbow over it.

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  59. Flaun of I Plead Quilty!17 February 2012 at 18:50

    I immediately went to a nuclear cooling stack, but that may be because there's one nearish my home town...

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  60. rolleiflex17 February 2012 at 18:52

    definitely the cooling tower as you move into militant quilting (mm doesn't sound like you somehow).

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  61. Charlotte17 February 2012 at 18:52

    cooling tower? Or comedy nether part ;-)

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  62. Esch House Quilts17 February 2012 at 19:03

    While I can see the nuclear reactor idea, how about a road going over a hill? The dark purple part is closer and the lighter purple part is in the distance.

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  63. Sana Saroti17 February 2012 at 19:16

    Well, if your goal was to make a nuclear power plant, you were successful ;-) I hope I'm wrong though. I think I wouldnt want that in a quilt.

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  64. Anya17 February 2012 at 19:16

    Yeah, my first thought was a nuclear reactor cooling tower. My second thought was why in the world would you be making a block of a nuclear cooling tower? My third thought is, I'm just totally wrong!

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  65. Archie The Wonder Dog17 February 2012 at 19:25

    I also immediately saw a cooling tower but maybe that's because there's a big chemical and power plant a few miles away...http://www.flickr.com/photos/93173492@N00/2684294299/ and then I saw an inkwell and quill. And then a path/road going over a bridge/through a ford. When do we get to find out what you really made?!!

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  66. Aliceart17 February 2012 at 19:42

    Pen resting in an inkwell!

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  67. Isisjem17 February 2012 at 19:58

    I've scanned down past the comments so I deliberately haven't read what other put. But it reminds me of one of the towers of Didcot Power station with a plume of smoke or whatever it is that comes out of them.

    So I think you were making a power station tower thingy with plume... :-)

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  68. Katy Cameron17 February 2012 at 20:18

    Power station cooling tower?

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  69. verykerryberry17 February 2012 at 20:19

    Hilarious- not your block, but the responses!

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  70. Anonymous17 February 2012 at 20:23

    I'm thinking it's the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow?? I guess cause it's coming up on St. Patrick's day. Pretty purple whatever it may be.

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  71. Outside inspiration17 February 2012 at 20:36

    powerstation?

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  72. Live a Colorful Life17 February 2012 at 20:46

    An inkwell with a quill pen with a feather.

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  73. gab-fab17 February 2012 at 20:57

    Yep, put us down for another cooling tower.

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  74. Angela17 February 2012 at 21:07

    well one thing is for sure...if you ever DID want to make a block of a cooling tower, you would certainly have a pattern for it. LOL. I think that you are really a psychiatrist and you are giving us the quilt block version of ink blot tests.

    What do you see?

    I see candle wax being poured to form a beautiful lavender candle.

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  75. Anne17 February 2012 at 21:24

    First thing I saw was the nuclear power plant cooling tower. Which I see I'm not the first to have seen. :) It looks like steam coming out of it!

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  76. Regina17 February 2012 at 21:28

    First reaction was mortar and pestle - then cup with a spoon handle.

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  77. Miki Willa17 February 2012 at 21:43

    Well, I see two things. First I saw a quill feather pen dipped in an ink bottle, then I saw a mortar and pestle. I am curious as to what it really is.

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  78. Kristi17 February 2012 at 21:49

    I saw pot of gold at the end of a single-color rainbow (and I'm pretty sure that isn't it), and then a nuclear cooling tower.

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  79. NurseBrandy17 February 2012 at 22:13

    I saw a vase with a flower stem... :)

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  80. Patti17 February 2012 at 22:36

    I see a straw poking out of a jar of some sort!

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  81. Quiltjane17 February 2012 at 22:42

    Forget what it is. I just love the fabrics. I want them.

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  82. Alex Palmer17 February 2012 at 22:46

    I'm going with cooling tower but whatever it is I LOVE that purple fabric...

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  83. jlk17 February 2012 at 22:46

    I think it looks like a nuclear power plant tower.

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  84. Two Wednesdays17 February 2012 at 22:49

    well my indecisiveness (and randomness!) is coming through as in the space of about 3 seconds I went from "mortar and pestle" to "stem of a flower in a vase" (but discounted it as too thick for a stem and no flower head) to steam from a colling tower (probably one of the ones seen from the A1). And reading the comments I'm not very original either......

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  85. Gina17 February 2012 at 22:55

    looks like water being poured into a vase. Have a good weekend!

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  86. Leila17 February 2012 at 23:11

    A nuclear reactor at the end of a purple rainbow? :)

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  87. ritainalaska18 February 2012 at 00:46

    it's an ink well and quill!

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  88. Stephanie18 February 2012 at 00:59

    it looks like a power plant cooling tower with steam rising into the wind.

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  89. pinsandneedles18 February 2012 at 01:10

    My first guess was a vase and flower stem but the color choice throws it off.

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  90. Laura18 February 2012 at 01:27

    Cauldron?

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  91. Rhonda the Rambler18 February 2012 at 01:39

    Boy I sure wish I could think of a body part that looked like that but I am not that cleaver. Instead I am forced to tell you it looks like a nuclear reactor . Can't wait to hear what it is.

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  92. Charlotte E18 February 2012 at 02:09

    I second an ink well and quill or alternatively a vase with a flower stem.

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  93. Lucky Duck Dreams18 February 2012 at 02:15

    I dont not about all those other ideas but I saw a rainbow developing with the blue first leading to a pot of fabric(because what would I need gold for-it breaks needles)

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  94. Dan R18 February 2012 at 03:30

    I saw a mortar and pestle first (my parents are pharmacists) and then a cooling tower. Regardless, I like the gradation of gray with the ribbon of purple. Like an industrial sunset.

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  95. Kirsty18 February 2012 at 04:14

    Nuclear reactor tower...with tsunami in the background

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  96. Arita18 February 2012 at 05:23

    I saw a top hat with feathers on it.

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  97. Quiltjane18 February 2012 at 05:45

    In the devils triangle, looking out a port hole of a sinking ship at purple leg of a kraken just about to eat them all. Am I close?

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  98. Beth18 February 2012 at 06:53

    It looks like a mortar and pestle to me. If that's what you intended, nicely done!

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  99. Dianne Neale18 February 2012 at 07:35

    A cooling toer, but why you'd want to quilt a cooling tower, I've no idea! So it must be something else.

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  100. Unknown18 February 2012 at 08:49

    Well, I know it's certainly not the anything like the picture you first showed me for the block ;o) - otherwise I'm with - nuclear plant cooling tower
    Love the colours/fabrics, classy

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  101. Charlotte18 February 2012 at 09:44

    I thought chimney at a power station too, looking forward to finding out the real answer

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  102. Liz18 February 2012 at 09:52

    Reminds me of taking my son back to Nottingham Uni and passing the cooling towers

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  103. Leo18 February 2012 at 10:15

    looks like one of those large cooling towers of a nuclear power plant - a nother more beautiful otpion would be a ink bottle with an dip pen ...
    I'm probbaly miles off the track but guessing is fun... Are you going to slove the puzzle eventually?

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  104. Ali18 February 2012 at 10:50

    I can see a cooling tower at at power station? Can't think I am right though! And thank you for intorducing me to Oakshott - they are only a mile away from me! Hurray!

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  105. Viviana Franco18 February 2012 at 12:34

    Para mi que vivo en Argentina podría decir que veo un Mate es una infusión que tomamos siempre aun cuando estamos cosiendo.Si buscas en google la palabra Mate podrás
    ver como es :).
    Cordialmente
    Viviana

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  106. Josie McRazie18 February 2012 at 13:46

    If you turn it one time clockwise I think it lookslike water flowing out the wall!

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  107. cgwehrman18 February 2012 at 16:02

    It's a water cooling tower from a nuclear power plant, isn't it?

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  108. Barb in Mi18 February 2012 at 16:12

    Didn't read all the comments, but how about a writing feather (sorry, don't know the English word: quill?) in an ink pot?

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  109. Jopsy18 February 2012 at 17:59

    toothbrush in mug

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  110. MariQuilts18 February 2012 at 21:29

    I always did fancy that penis block.......I was going to remind you of your body part/quilt block history but didn't want to bring up the unfortunate, I mean hilarious past.

    I love the block.....and if it makes me smile all the better.

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  111. Marianne19 February 2012 at 15:36

    Nuclear reactor cooling tower. 3 mile island.

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