frustration continued

No matter what I do I cannot figure out how to upload photos from my iPhoto albums to the blog.  Help, please.  thanks.

Finishing up

I've had my new MAC about a month or so now and I'm still in the novice stage.  Hopefully I'll be able to download two photos of a project I've been working on for over a year.  It's an original design of what I envision an African plain to be, though I've never been there.  The piece was begun in a class with Teresa Fusco, whom I've mentioned before--one of my favorite teachers.  I'm constructing the camel (and a few more animals that I haven't started yet) using techniques I learned in a three day workshop with Susan Carlson in Harpswell, Maine last summer.  Hopefully I can successfully post them.  Not sure where they'll appear--before or after the text.

New computer

Hi.  I just purchased a new computer.  An IMac.  I'm not a big fan of laptops so this is a desktop.  I'm slowly learning the ins and outs of using it.  If anyone  can offer any support, that would be great.  My next step is to download my pictures from my old PC to a thumb drive and then upload them to the Mac.  Anything I should be concerned about or process I should try.  Totally different but I'm loving it so far.

Shameful...

Shameful that it's been so long since my last blog post.  Since August we've had some life altering situations occur here in central Pa.  Mainly the destruction of the house that my daughter rented from me in Bloomsburg, Pa.  Flood waters lifted it off its foundation and tilted it toward my neighbor's home.  Total loss.  My daughter and her family lost everything, except fortunately their lives.  In any case the house has been demolished and we're moving in.  Because of the destruction in the area there are no homes to rent so they're renting rooms in a local apartment complex built for college students.  At least it's a roof over their heads.  I'll reserve my comments on FEMA for a private conversation...

Anyway, I have been quilting.  Again, I'm never sure in what order my photos will appear but I'm working on another Susan Carlson influenced piece that will go on a wall hanging that I started about two years ago with quilter Teresa Fusco.  I have most of the background done and I'm working on the animals that will be added.  The first is a camel.  Hopefully both will appear.  

And, btw, if you live a flood prone area, please, please, please, get flood insurance. 

Sebastian's progress

Still working on my project from Susan Carlson's class.  I thought perhaps the tail could use some outlining so I couched some rayon cord around it.  Question--should I continue with the cord on the underside of his belly?  And, any ideas for his tongue?  Thinking of something that I can curl at the end as if he's catching something.

Serendipity quilt

Just came back from a two day workshop with Susan Carlson  http://www.susancarlson.com/Welcome.html in Harpswell, Maine.  Great fun.  Fantastic venue!  The chameleon is the creature I decided to do.  Need advice on background.  Blue (dramatic) or green (as if he's in the wild).  What do you think? 

Also need help on adding links, but that's for another day. 

Trying again

This is my second attempt to write a new post on my blog.  In about a week I will be going to Quilting by the Lake near Syracuse, NY.   I have never submitted a quilt to a show other than my local quilt guild's show but QBL always has a quilt show that runs the same time as the classes.  This year I decided to be brave and enter two recent quilts.  This is not a juried show just an opportunity to showcase you work. 

In a previous attempt at adding a post to my blog the entries came in reversed.  I have no idea what will happen this time.  In any case, the yellow one is based on the class that I took last year at QBL from Sue Benner.  I loved this class!  She's a great teacher.  The other quilt represents the work I did from a workshop with a fellow quilter in my home town.  I had just bought the book by Edrika Huws and decided to use her technique for construction.  She hand sewed her pieces together.  I glued mine.    Anyway, here they are.  Who knows which one will appear first.