Tag: photography
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Horseshoe Bend Is Done!
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I finished the last of the binding on the Horseshoe Bend quilt while I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago (finally catching up on the blog), and I’m really happy with it. The binding wasn’t quite done when this picture was taken, but it was close enough. It’s…
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Fabrics Before Grids
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As mentioned earlier, I also went to the first two of the quilt shops in the All New England Quilt Shop Hop this past weekend. The shop hop runs through the end of October, and there’s no way I’ll get to all 91 shops, but it was a nice day…
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Two Steps Forward
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I put the border on the abstract iceberg quilt. And then I put it up on the design wall, and I stared at it for a bit. And I went and did something else for a while, waited a couple of days, and then came back and stared at it…
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When Bored…
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Today, I took an unexpected sick day when I realized that I needed to deal with both a dentist appointment and what looks to be an infected tick bite (we don’t mess with Lyme disease up here in the northeast!). I feel fine, but I just needed to deal with…
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Moving On
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So now that the Tracy Arm quilt top is (nearly) finished and all I need to do is sew on the borders, I need to come up with another project to do. Because, of course I do. My ADHD would ask nothing less of me! Seriously, though. I am headed…
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Printing Photos
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Two of the quilts I’m working on involve images printed on fabric. There are two ways you can do this: either print the image out yourself on your home printer or get a service to do it for you. Both of these have worked for me at different times, so…
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What Works and What Doesn’t (Mostly What Doesn’t)
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When I started working in earnest on this project, I started with the images. With over 45,000 images on my hard drive, there’s a lot to sort through. I have my favorites – the images that I come back to again and again when I need a background for a…