Cotton Quilters' September meeting (in pictures)

I can't believe that the month is almost over and I still haven't mentioned the Cotton Quilters meeting. Here are a few pictures, but I suppose that there's little to tell because we spent our time discussing the upcoming show. At this point in time, that's only a week away!

Sunday Quilt Inspiration: P H O T O S

Don't you just love old photos? By old I mean the daguerreotype pictures of the 1800's. The black and white stereographic photographs that came after, and the sepia pictures of my childhood.   Have you ever wonder why some of the truly old daguerreotype sitters look creepy? There are a couple of reasons for the look: in some photos the sitter is actually dead. Another reason is that the sitter(s) had to remain very still for as long as ten minutes while the daguerreotype camera processed the view. 

The last photos are called stereoscopic pictures. One could see the photos as they are (in two dimension) by looking at it with the naked eye, or with the use of  a stereoscope one would see one image in three dimensions. I think of it sort of like looking through the Mattel Viewmaster of childhood. 

Two great sources for old photographs are The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and The Library of Congress. Many of the pins on my "Daguerreotype, stereotype, photograph" board are from these two sources.

Quilts with photographs seem to be everywhere. These are just a few that I found on Pinterest.

I hope this post inspires you to look at your photographs just a little differently from now on.

How to spend a Saturday night

Do you know what takes about three hours out of your life? One decision. One. That's all. In my case it was the decision to update this blog. Three hours. Three. That's a number you know, 3. 

You know why it takes three whole hours? Because I can't learn a lesson from a mistake by doing it once. I have to make that mistake again.  And again. And sometimes it takes another one three, okay, four times. I mean, I do eventually figure out the problem. Usually. 

But graciousness sake's alive. Three hours. And let us not forget the headache. Literally. There was a doozy coming on after three hours of fixing my self-imposed problems.  So it's done. Well, I can't fathom that I would right now, this minute, spend any more time fixing. Because I almost like what I have. Almost. I mean I'll live with it for tonight.

Finally, eight collages (Thank you PicMonkey), three hours, a headache, and a Jason Statham kill-everyone-except-the-girl movie later (Richard is a fan, apparently) and I can take two asprin and say goodnight.  Oh wait, go back to yesterday's post and find out how to give your unloved unwanted blocks and WIP's up for adoption--possibly to someone willing to finish them for a deserving charity organization.   Now goodnight.

Sunday Quilt Inspiration: F A M I L Y

Family.  Those people who love us no matter what.  

Great family photo ideas

Ways to use the photos in quilts

A memory quilt that I made