EQ6 frustration resolved! Mostly…

In our last episode, I was tearing my hair out trying to draw a scalloped border for the unnamed quilt. This exercise really illustrates how math-challenged I am, because this is obviously a math test.
I dug around in my bookcase and came up with Patti Anderson’s EQ5 Drawing book. Guess what? It has a chapter [...]

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EQ6 frustration

I should emphasize here that my frustration is with myself, in the fact that I have ZERO artistic vision and can’t seem to draw something in EQ6 that I can see with my own eyes. Heaven help me if I ever thought I could draw something original.
Here’s my problem:
The unnamed quilt definitely needs a border. [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

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Some people are so creative

I love it when I stumble across something clever that someone has thought of and this is one of those. I think we’ve all been here:

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I love technology!

You may remember that I got an iPhone 3GS in June. John and the kids have had iPhones for a long while (John since the first version) but I’d been dragging my feet, waiting until it had features that I really wanted. I was dismayed to learn that the one feature I bought it for [...]

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Everybody’s getting into the act

In front of the piano store…

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Making progress

I finished sewing the last two rows together on the unnamed quilt this morning. I have decided this definitely needs borders, but don’t know exactly what they will be like. Quilting Adventures was down to their last 3 fat quarters of the red fabric and didn’t want to order another bolt, so I found the [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

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Quick tip for better accuracy

If you don’t have this book, you’re missing out:

I highly recommend it. Sally Collins is an incredible quiltmaker and she’s got a lot of good advice to help improve the accuracy of your cutting and sewing.
I’ll give you one tip from the book. Using super-fine pins when matching seams and points gives you greater accuracy [...]

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Night photography

So I dragged John and a friend, Sandy, to Saturday night’s Photography Meetup outing in downtown Richmond. I’d not tried night photography yet, so I was anxious to see what I could accomplish. We started out at the floodwall which affords a very nice (and much photographed of course) view of the downtown skyline. This [...]

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