Pin It Weekly #256

Happy Weekly! Here are a few quilts that I recently pinned.

First up, everything by Diane Melms--she may be my favorite new quilter. Here are five of her fantastic pieces.

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Next, I've been watching Perspective in Landscape Drawing by Patrick Conners, one of the lessons on Craftsy's Bluprint platform. (No affiliation.) And the result is that I really want to begin a landscape quilt. 

Of course, I can't start yet another project! I have too many irons in the fire now, but I can enjoy the landscape works that I do run across with new knowledge of why some things work and others don't. 

It's the kind of knowledge that I love: something to ponder and think about and apply a little at a time. Then one day, I'll see a painting or quilt and wow! I get it! Those fabulous moments. 

For more of those kind of moments, plus these kinds of quilts and goodness knows how many more kinds, check out 
my "heart, quilts" board on Pinterest.

Pin It Wednesday #13

Happy Hump Day!  Enjoy these pins--despite the fact that I've been struggling for an hour to get them here in some sort of system.  Turns out the system is quite simple: anything goes in any order, shape, size, etc.  This gets more difficult every week!  What gives Pinterest?

 

 

 

 

 

Back to Houston

that's a virtual return to Houston, of course.  I have enough photos to last a while and my feet are still too tired to go through that again.  I sat for a little while to work on some more photos for you and made a big discovery: I can compress, edit and load photos in bulk!  

That means that all the photos are now compressed, something that I have to do to be able to upload them to blogger.  I haven't gotten brave enough to attempt editing in bulk, with the exception of adding brightness.  My camera settings are off somewhat, so I have to brighten everything until I figure out how to correct the settings.

I made another discovery while organizing the photos: I took photos of the winning quilts, but the camera automatically sets up file folders and puts the pics in the appropriate folder.  I had taken enough photos that it just built another folder and started using it. 

I looked in one folder but it turns out there are pics in two folders.  I've now put all of the photos from the show in one folder on the computer, which makes them much easier to find, edit and upload.


 While I enjoy the newly found features of my camera, you enjoy the quilts.  These are from the AAQI booth, where they were making lots of noise and getting lots of attention.  

The name in white on this quilt runner on the outside of the AAQI booth is my mom's name.  I wrote her name on the piece of fabric last year while at the booth and this year it appeared, like magic, with rows and rows of other names of Alzheimer's patients.


And from here we go to photos of landscape quilts, followed by a few avian photos.  I wish I could remember something about the quilts, but there are too many--quilts and photos! 

On to birds......

Happy Quilting,
Mary