Frustration

My computer is old enough that it can't be updated, has slowed down, crashes daily and was starting to cause some frustration. So this week I bought a new one - I love it, but now there's more frustration. I was able to download everything from my old computer to the new one from a backup hard drive with relative ease. At least that's what I thought until I tried to open Photoshop to resize some pictures for the blog. Today I have spent well over an hour with support and tech support from Adobe only to find out that it won't work. My new computer doesn't have a disk slot, it is an external piece of hardware that I would have to buy. My photoshop will only work on the new computer if I install it from the original disk. So I can either buy a $79 piece of hardware, download a $79 app from Adobe or aperture a $79 app from apple. My current decision is to use the old computer for blog posts.

I have two printers, neither one will work with the new computer and after spending most of my morning trying to get photoshop to work, I've decided to tackle that one another day.

My camera is in for cleaning, there was dust on the inside of the lens. So I'm also without my camera for about two weeks and have dug out the old one and charged up the battery. I've noticed a difference in picture quality, so that's my excuse for bad pictures.

Daily stitching updates
360 Red Circles #309- #318

Indigo and Rust #237 - #246

Weekly Stitching
Week #46 & #47

In September I showed some blocks I was stenciling for a leaf quilt, I got side tracked for a month or so but have now gotten most of them done. I've been sticking them up on the design wall by size, when they are all done everything will get rearranged.

I have more of the 6" size to do (upper right ) and a few more of the 3" size(lower right). I may not use them all, I won't know until I start arranging them. The sizes are 9,6,and 3" squares and 9 x 3 and 6x3 inch rectangles that all fit together into 15" blocks.


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Snow !?!

Snow flakes have been flying around here all day, thankfully none are actually sticking to the ground. I'm just not ready for snow yet, our fall has been so nice that I would just like it to last a bit longer.

I was out of town for a few days over the weekend, so I don't have much new to share. I have started on a small piece (10" x 7") for the SAQA trunk show. After starting I went back and actually read the given information and I may not have made the best color choice. I'm using some over dyed kimono silk and one of the pieces has a black background, and the finished pieces are going to be mounted on black.

The colors are difficult to get photograph correctly. The gold thread is  what I'm stitching the gold side with. I'll finish it and see how it looks on black and if I don't like it I'll do something else.

I did brush some teal paintstik on to the piece I quilted a couple of weeks ago. The color is better, but I don't care for the way it looks. So on to plan B - paint the back! I will probably need to get some more paint, my supply is low because I haven't been using much lately.

Daily stitching updates
365 Red Circles #303 - #308

Indigo and Rust #231- #236

Weekly stitching #45

Monthly notions - November

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Bouncing from one project to another

There are times when I really have trouble focusing and getting something I've started done. The quilt I was working on last week has been put in the corner while I quilt another one. I do plan on getting back to it and using paintstiks on the front and probably paint the back. Instead of working on that I pulled out a project that had been cut up back in May  2012 and finished quilting it.

The small piece (13"sq) was quilted over a year ago, now all three are done, the bigger pieces are about 20" sq. This was a dye painted whole cloth that I really liked, but had problems quilting it so the easiest solution was to cut it up. Here's a close up of the piece on the left.

As I've been stitching my weekly stitching pieces I've been planning on sewing them all together in a kimono shape, like this, with two more rows of four.

After a get together with my creative friends the week end before last I'm now considering not sewing them together. Lisa suggested that each individual one needed space and they should be hung separately and the more I think about it the more I agree with her.

Week #44

Daily Stitching
Indigo and Rust #224 -#230

365 Red Circles #296 -#302

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