My dear blog- friends ... please do not give up on me. At my last post none of the pictures came thru. This was the same problem I had when I stopped blogging before. This time tho, I am determined not to give up or quit .
My mother-in-law has been visiting for the past 2 months so I did not feel free to totally dedicate myself to solving my computer problems. She has returned home so now I can solve this problem .... AGAIN. Took some pictures today with my real camera (not phone camera) and am off to the Apple Store tomorrow to solve this problem once and for all. Have tried everything and everyone else prior to this .... so now it is time to finally pull myself up by my boot straps and go to the source.
It is not that I have any magnificent works to show you ... or that I am a GREAT writer or picture taker or even quilter. But you guys are great to communicate and share with. Will let you know how it goes.
Much love, Joanne
Monday, April 2, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Butterfly Garden
One of the projects I have been slowly working on is a design called Butterfly Garden. My cousin, Cathy, and I both fell in love with it and decided to do it together. We knew it would be a long term project which is what I was looking for..... to have something I could pick up when I wanted to relax and do handwork.
First I had to piece all nine blocks together ..... 9 small blocks to make each Big Block square. Then 9 of THOSE BB (Big Blocks to form the quilt top.
Here comes the challenging part for me ...... loading the pictures. The pictures I have put here are not all from the correct angle, but am not sure where and when to edit the photos ... I felt joyous just getting them on here!! Stay with me .... I will eventually master this part. I just seem to have a mental block and am dense about the picture thing.
This one is sideways .... made obvious by the door knob placement !! :-) Big Block #2:
This one has the correct viewpoint .... Yeah!! 1 pix done 100% correct!!
This is Big block #1:
This is a view of quilt detail on BB #1
Here we have detail on BB #2:
Big Block #3 is almost finished .... so I sorta have 3 out 9 BBs completed.
I eventually want to go back an add embellishments in the form of beads
and charms. Have already substituted some of the flowers with buttons.
My cousin is doing her BG Quilt in 30s fabrics and I have seen many other
color combos with this design on the internet. All of them are gorgeous!
I love seeing how each person interprets the same design.
And I love seeing the variety in color combos everyone has.
So very inspiring!!!!
One day this will hang on my living room wall behind the couch. I have a lot of
dark brown in that room so this will set it off nicely. Brown and aqua is just one
of my favorite color combinations ..... as is purple and green or yellow ... oh,
I love red and aqua also. Do you have fav color combos that you repeatedly
lean towards in your creative process?
More another day. Thanks for visiting
First I had to piece all nine blocks together ..... 9 small blocks to make each Big Block square. Then 9 of THOSE BB (Big Blocks to form the quilt top.
Here comes the challenging part for me ...... loading the pictures. The pictures I have put here are not all from the correct angle, but am not sure where and when to edit the photos ... I felt joyous just getting them on here!! Stay with me .... I will eventually master this part. I just seem to have a mental block and am dense about the picture thing.
This one is sideways .... made obvious by the door knob placement !! :-) Big Block #2:
This one has the correct viewpoint .... Yeah!! 1 pix done 100% correct!!
This is Big block #1:
This is a view of quilt detail on BB #1
Here we have detail on BB #2:
Big Block #3 is almost finished .... so I sorta have 3 out 9 BBs completed. I eventually want to go back an add embellishments in the form of beads
and charms. Have already substituted some of the flowers with buttons.
My cousin is doing her BG Quilt in 30s fabrics and I have seen many other
color combos with this design on the internet. All of them are gorgeous!
I love seeing how each person interprets the same design.
And I love seeing the variety in color combos everyone has.
So very inspiring!!!!
One day this will hang on my living room wall behind the couch. I have a lot of
dark brown in that room so this will set it off nicely. Brown and aqua is just one
of my favorite color combinations ..... as is purple and green or yellow ... oh,
I love red and aqua also. Do you have fav color combos that you repeatedly
lean towards in your creative process?
More another day. Thanks for visiting
Sunday, March 4, 2012
I am back !!!!
It has been about a year since I posted and I have missed visiting with everyone. First I want to thank those of you who checked up on me during my absence to see how I was. I really appreciated the care and concern you expressed to me. Appreciated it a LOT !! It is a large part of why I have decided to be courageous and start blogging again.
The trouble started with hardware/computer/printer/camera issues. I could not get my photos to load for the life of me and then other difficulties developed.
Then my health deteriorated further. I got very depressed about this .... I did not want to be depressed but I was. The condition of chronic pain and fatigue can be brutal at times. This past year was one of those very dark seasons.
Physically I am not out of the woods and the truth of the matter is that this may be as good as it is gonna get. Doctors have stopped answering me when I ask "when is it going to get better?" But it is something I can accept now. Accept what is and the loss.
During this yukky, yukky year, I kept quilting ..... YEAH !!!! Along with prayer and God's sustenance to help me .... there has been quilting .... creativity bringing light to some dark times. Am so glad I renewed this part of my life before this particular storm hit me. Being creative is such a blessing. My DGD gave me a boost when she told me my stuff looks just like the stuff for sale in Anthropology. That got her another quilt from her dear ole Grandma !!!! Smart girl!!
I did have to stop quilting for a few months when I fell and broke my foot. I found I was just not coordinated enough to use the other foot on the foot pedal. Couldn't drive either. It did not help that the fracture did not show on the x-rays until I had been trying to walk on it for a month with excruciating leg pain ... so they took more x-rays from a different angles and what do you know?!! .... it was fractured. Great !!!! One more thing !!!
I was hand sewing but found I needed something even more mindless to do .... so I got out the ole yarn and crochet hooks. Been having a ball with that while my foot was healing.... my cats love my yarn as much as they love my fabrics. :-)
I will be visiting my old friends this week and will leave you all notes. I have pictures but not ready to tackle loading them today. Love to all.
The trouble started with hardware/computer/printer/camera issues. I could not get my photos to load for the life of me and then other difficulties developed.
Then my health deteriorated further. I got very depressed about this .... I did not want to be depressed but I was. The condition of chronic pain and fatigue can be brutal at times. This past year was one of those very dark seasons.
Physically I am not out of the woods and the truth of the matter is that this may be as good as it is gonna get. Doctors have stopped answering me when I ask "when is it going to get better?" But it is something I can accept now. Accept what is and the loss.
During this yukky, yukky year, I kept quilting ..... YEAH !!!! Along with prayer and God's sustenance to help me .... there has been quilting .... creativity bringing light to some dark times. Am so glad I renewed this part of my life before this particular storm hit me. Being creative is such a blessing. My DGD gave me a boost when she told me my stuff looks just like the stuff for sale in Anthropology. That got her another quilt from her dear ole Grandma !!!! Smart girl!!
I did have to stop quilting for a few months when I fell and broke my foot. I found I was just not coordinated enough to use the other foot on the foot pedal. Couldn't drive either. It did not help that the fracture did not show on the x-rays until I had been trying to walk on it for a month with excruciating leg pain ... so they took more x-rays from a different angles and what do you know?!! .... it was fractured. Great !!!! One more thing !!!
I was hand sewing but found I needed something even more mindless to do .... so I got out the ole yarn and crochet hooks. Been having a ball with that while my foot was healing.... my cats love my yarn as much as they love my fabrics. :-)
I will be visiting my old friends this week and will leave you all notes. I have pictures but not ready to tackle loading them today. Love to all.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Sewing Lesson with my niece ...
Today I had the wonderful joy of giving my niece (NJ) her first sewing lesson. We went to the fabric store and she got the needed notions of pins, scissors, thread etc. We picked out a pattern and fabric for her first project ... diaper cover for her baby boy who is about to have his first birthday celebration.
At her house I had to get familiar with her new machine, so I could then show her how to use it. It took a little time, but we figured it out and she got to sew her first straight line. Exciting !! By that time, I had to leave to pick up my DGD:T. I will be going back on friday so we can put it all together.
Apparently her husband loved the quilts I brought to show them when she first got her machine. So eventually she wants to make a quilt. Yeah !!
In the meantime I have been working on finishing up my WIPs from 2010. I decided to have a big pinwheel party ... all my borders and sashing will be pinwheels. I have well over a 100 of them going all at once ... assembly-line style ....
Above is about half of the completed pinwheels with Moda charm pack of Swell (older line of fabric). I added the solids. This is what got me started on the pinwheel idea to also use for borders.
Well I am having difficulty uploading anymore pictures. Stay tuned I will be back to finish but it is late tonite.
Love and hugs, Joanne
At her house I had to get familiar with her new machine, so I could then show her how to use it. It took a little time, but we figured it out and she got to sew her first straight line. Exciting !! By that time, I had to leave to pick up my DGD:T. I will be going back on friday so we can put it all together.
Apparently her husband loved the quilts I brought to show them when she first got her machine. So eventually she wants to make a quilt. Yeah !!
Above is about half of the completed pinwheels with Moda charm pack of Swell (older line of fabric). I added the solids. This is what got me started on the pinwheel idea to also use for borders.
Well I am having difficulty uploading anymore pictures. Stay tuned I will be back to finish but it is late tonite.
Love and hugs, Joanne
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