Camera Settings

Today I tried changing the colour settings on my camera to try and fix its dislike of purple.

Automatic setting:


Adjusted setting:

That is a little bit warmer, but it is still nowhere near the colour of the actual flower. But at least I've learnt something today!

Meanwhile, I dropped off the raffle quilt for the next person this morning, for her to add the binding and the label. Here's a not very good shot showing what I did with the borders. Not much, just straight lines and a flower-like thing in each corner.

I've had positive feedback from the people who've seen it so far, which is a relief. Now I suppose I should get stuck-in to my own little pile of unquilted quilts.

Getting There

This afternoon I did some more quilting on the raffle quilt. I took this picture before I'd finished, as the sun was getting low and I wanted to get the shot without using the flash. Afterwards I finished quilting all the stars. Tonight I'll be running-in lots more thread ends! It is quite nice having a quilt draped over your knees on a cold night.


Then tomorrow I better quilt the border, which is what I was meant to be doing in the first place.

Quilting

This afternoon I was handed the raffle quilt. Three other quilters have worked on it so far, sewing the grid and the diagonals to outline the stars. My job is to do some quilting in the borders. However, the whole thing looked too flat to me, so I decided it needed more than just the grid quilted. I quilted for a while before it got dark, then spent the evening running-in ends while watching TV. The ends took much longer than the sewing! Back view so far:

These little flower shapes are between the stars, which will also get some extra embellishment. I better find out when this needs to be done by...

Last Seam

This afternoon I went to a quilting bee, (or more accurately, a piecing bee) and I had the fun of sewing the last seam to turn all the blocks into one big piece.

A border will be added later, but it was great to get all the blocks and bits together.

Simple Piecing

Yesterday at my regular quilting group meeting, we were asked to make blocks for a quilt to be raffled later this year. With all the appliqué and free-motion quilting I've been doing lately, I was in the right frame of mind for a simple piecing task. We were given a kit which included instructions, colour guidelines, and some magenta hand-dyed fabric which will appear in every block.

This afternoon I enjoyed making my block:


I'm looking forward to seeing other people's.