Christmas Decorama Finish

The center fabric came out of a scrap bin while shopping for my pineapple quilt (which will finish as an oversized king....lots more scrap shopping in my future).

Frosty and the candy canes were a long strip that I cut apart so I could have snowmen and canes facing both ways and oriented correctly .

The red Moda Marble border is from my stash and one of the few pieces of fabric that I've paid full price for.

Working On A 2011 UFO List Item

Below is a machine pieced hexie table runner flimsy that will finish 12" x 25". Now to agonize over the backing and binding selection.

Quild Christmas Block Lessons

 

Every year the Guild's Christmas Block Committee selects fabric that is distributed early in the year to members that want to participate and be eligible to win blocks a the end of the year.  The only stipulations are that you only use the fabric supplied and the blocks are 12.5".  For every block you turn in your name gets thrown in the pot to win a stack of blocks.

 

I record the Eleanore Burns show (doing Victory Quilts now) and on one show she was doing a Brave World block.



 

These are quarter squares that make up the Brave World block (I've seen this subsection in quite a few quilts lately)....actually they are trimmed down rejects that ended up in the Churn Dash...well, three of them did.

 

 

After I had the Churn Dash put together, I put the 12.5" ruler on it and one corner looked wonky...I'm not going for wonky!  I knew I didn't have enough fabric left to remake the quarter blocks by Eleanore's method, so I had to dig out my Fons and Porter Half and Quarter Ruler (have had it for several years and hadn't used it till now) and cut some triangles. Triangles have scared me...I would avoid them at all cost...but you know what....they weren't so bad. I think some triangle flying geese are in my future!

 

 



Scrap Shopping And A Hitch Hiker

Well, here I am again using Blogpress! When I looked at my last post on my Kindle Fire, it didn't look quite as bad as it did on my laptop. Also, when you tap on the photo you get a better picture....so I'll have to put that caveat in my posts.



Went scrap shopping at the quilt shop in Jasper to stock up on scraps and did pretty good. Four and a half bags = 2.5 lb = 7.5 yd x $10/yd = $75 value. Spent $15 + tax...woohoo!!!

On the way home, I noticed the hitch hiker that had made its way into the car.



I pulled over and took a picture and tried to shoo him out of the car. Notice I said tried...



I had to stop at a friends house to look in on the cat and plants while they're on a cruise. Hopefully the little green guy ran for his life while the doors were left open.

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Photo testing

This photo was taken and it went directly to the post...and it isn't showing up in iPhones camera roll.


Notice the black bars...



I took this picture with iPhone and then retrieved it from the camera roll.

It will be interesting to see if there will be any difference in quality.

All Blogpress posts so far has had pictures as large as Blogpress will allow (400 x 400).

EDITING NOTES:

What a hot mess this is...not at all what Blogpress preview was showing on iPhone.  I think part of the problem was that I had selected the first photo to be left justified and even though my text was below the photo, it jumped up to wrap around the photo.  The second photo from my phone's camera roll didn't offer a placement selection.

I could only straighten it out on Blogger because everything looks OK on phone (I'm leaving it like it first appeared).  Also, the ability of edit with you phone rotated didn't work...screen went blank and keyboard went away.

The picture quality is really crappy either way you insert a picture...looks like I wasted $5.00.

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Trying Blogpress Again

Can I get a picture to post?




Cloudland Canyon State Park, Rising Fawn, GA.

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Trying Blogpress