Christmas Quilt after quilting

 

Slide show is up and working! Thanks to Janet's help.

I am so excited the directions Janet Hartkeys of LFA sent me I was able to get the slide show set up on my blog. Now to add more photos of quilts I have made. The learning process for the blog has been challenging and I continue to explore and learn more each time I work on it. I now even have two followers, happy to see they are both quilt lovers.

Happy Easter to all. I was able to call and talk to my family today. Bill and I had a quiet Easter, went to Church and had a quiet dinner just the two of us. Our traditional Easter meal of ham, scalloped potatoes, green bean caserole, and fruit salad.

Did not even go down to my sewing room today, looked at a couple of quilting magazines. Even sent an e-mail to Quiltmaker editor a photo of a bed quilt I made using a pattern from their magazine, who knows maybe they will show it. It was a variation of the South Shore Road quilt, I needed it to be bedsize so I ad to change the pattern a bit. It is fairly like the original, I made the pelican but ended up not using it on the quilt, but did use it on another project -- cannot even remember what it was used on. I will try to post the photo here that I sent to Quiltmaker.

Went and quilted on the long arm, there is a lady here who rents time on her machine. I think that is the only way I will ever get things quilted is on a long arm, using my home sewing machine is very difficult and really puts a strain on my neck and arms. Hopefully the more I do it the better I will get at it, she lives only 10 minutes from my house. She allows me to quilt at no charge for charity quilts, I just bring her a tax write off form from the charity. This way it gives me some practice time and gets a charity quilt completed. I worked on my Christmas Quilt yesterday and I still have some things to do on it, some I missed, one block I had to rip out part of it as I became a little carried away.

Hopefully I will get some help on how to set up a Picasa Album on line, I really would like to have a slide show of my various quilts. I continue to go to the help section but have not really figured out how to get the photos downloaded. I am on dial up and it is so slow I think it times out before I get it done. I will continue to e-mail the photo to my blogspot.

I am going to my sewing room to finish up the quilting on my Christmas quilt, get the binding made and hopefully sewn on before it is time to get dinner going. All for now.