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17 October 2010

Country Loft Quilt Show

As promised, more pictures from the Country Loft’s annual Fall Quilt Auction and Show.  Still not sure how I forgot to post these after I took them.  Once again I have to remind you that they all had to be taken with a telephoto so there are some odd angles etc.  Enjoy!
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This is even more gorgeous in person.  It was just too bright out that day to get the color right.  Windy too so some of the quilts were kind of flying around.
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Love the quilting in this one.
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More to come.  And I think I figured out the text between pictures thingy…yay!!!

15 October 2010

More testing

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I still can’t write between the pictures….I guess I’m gonna have to change my order of doing things.  I’ll be back with more Country Loft.

Testing, testing….

I’m testing windows writer.  Kpaints over at Cheney Bag Lady suggested it and I remembered that I had downloaded it a long time ago and forgotten all about it.   I’m also going to give Punkie Pie’s suggestion a try.  I will be playing around here for a couple of posts probably so I’m just going to call them all “testing” so ya’ll can just ignore them.  O.k. now for the real test….pictures!
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Seems to be working.  I just realized I never posted my pictures of the Country Loft quilt auction and Fall show.  So I will be using them in my test posts.  So maybe don’t ignore me after all.  O.k. here goes…

Wow

just wow.  So that post I just posted?  It had a lot of text....and blogger ate it.  That whole one more chance thing was on how I was giving new blogger one more chance.  The pictures definitely upload way quicker and bigger and I like that....but the whole not being able to put the proper text with them and then when you try to move it it gets eaten?  Definitely a deal breaker.   I have got to go to bed now but if any of you know any tricks?  Please share.  I will do more work/trying to make it work tomorrow.   At least I got to post a bunch of gratuitous Winston pictures :)

One more chance....

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05 October 2010

October 5th (because I can't think of a title)



So judging from some of last weeks comments and emails I guess we're all a little ADD when it comes to our quilting....but I think this weekend I really took it to a new level. For me anyway. I was zipping along making good progress on my Dream On top, cutting and sewing up a storm, when suddenly some of the fabrics I was cutting reminded me of some yarn I have. I don't actually knit or crochet...but that doesn't keep me from having a nice little drawer of hooks and needles and a bit of yarn. You never know when the bug will hit, right? And that's exactly what happened. I spent Sunday morning relearning to cast on and then the rest of the day and into evening trying to get just one %&^$ decent row. (I learn to knit about once every 3 years or so-- just long enough to get oh say 5 rows done and then I put it away and promptly forget how.) I finally just decided to quit ripping out and just knit a nice big square to practice. You should see all the holes in this thing. Today when I finally got back to my quilting my poor fingers were so sore and bruised it hurt to pin my corners on.But I persevered and here's what I have so far. I can't decide whether to make it bigger or just stop where I am. Maybe I'll go knit while I think about it....

22 September 2010

Dream On


Ever have one of those days when you jump out of bed full of purpose? You know exactly what you're going to work onand you dive right in. Then you see this on your front step when you go out to water the yard....and inside is this:And all your intentions fly out the window. Best laid plans and all that. So yeah. The Bliss back is going to have to wait. Because... Pretty.
Sigh.