Graduation from Grade 12 is a big event here in our town. Today is the day that our daughter graduates from Grade 12.

We started today at the hair salon to get a fancy “do”. The salon was very busy with all the girls getting their hair done for tonight’s big event. Each and every hair style was a work of art.

These are pictures of my daughter’s hair-do. Now we need to worry about make up…..
getting into the dress….. pictures……

There has been so much interest in my challenge project that I am going to post the steps as I go along.

I now have all the fabrics selected for my challenge. The rules around choosing fabrics were pretty liberal. You can use as many fabrics as you like as long as the colour(s) of the paint chip are the main focus of the quilt. You can see in the picture that two of my fabrics showcase two of the paint chips on the strip. I will use the three fabrics on the right in my blocks and the house fabric on the left in my border.

The next step is to draft out my blocks / quilt.

I have been disconnected from the world for the last few days as I waited for my sick computer to be discharged from the “computer hospital” I now have a new motherboard and more RAM. You would think I would be ready to go, wouldn’t you?

Yesterday, I went to take pictures to add to a post and my camera was dead. I had a “Lens Error” message which means that the camera needs to be sent in for repair.

There could not be a worse time for a camera to fail. My daughter’s Grad ceremony, dinner, and dance are tonight! Lucky for us that we decided to give her a digital camera for a grad present so we will be able to capture the event on “film” tonight. I also have my old 35mm, my old APS, and my video cameras for backup. You will be able to pick me out tonight because I will be the mother with several cameras hanging off her arms–just to make sure I don’t miss a capturing a thing. We sent my digital camera off to the “camera hospital” and it will not be discharged for 3 to 6 weeks. : (

So this morning I am ready to load pictures thanks to my daughter’s new digital camera and wouldn’t you know, Blogger has now failed me! This is what I see when I try to look at my blog:

Where did my blog go? Interesting that I can log into Blogger and create a new post and my daughter can see my blog on her computer! I give up–this technology is going to get the best of me yet!

Blogger has finally allowed me to upload this picture.

This is a picture of my paint chip for our Quilt Guild’s Summer Challenge. I have placed the chip on top of one of the fat quarters that was in my prize package. This fabric will be one of the fabrics that I use to make my challenge block.

I have been quilting – just not for myself. I finished the quilting on this customer quilt last night. I really enjoyed working on this one because it is made with blocks from my quilt guild’s BOM last year. The blocks were all variations of baskets. The sunflower in the center is from a demonstration we had one night at guild on the Dresden Plate. I thought the quilter was very clever in putting the sunflower into the same quilt as the baskets.
This is the back of the same quilt. Very creative piecing for a quilt back, isn’t it?

I didn’t crop the picture so you can see the top of my husband’s head and his hands. He reluctantly agreed to hold this quilt for a photo. (He was standing on a stool. He isn’t really that tall.) The picture was taken before 7:00 this morning. I have found that the best pictures of quilts – to show off the quilting – need to be taken outside, either early in the morning or in the evening. Of course when I asked him to hold the quilt, I mentioned that if I could do it myself–hold the quilt and operate the camera at the same time–I wouldn’t bother him to help. He quickly replied, “You have a timer on that camera don’t you?” I bet you can visualize the look I gave him at that point–no words were spoken. A reluctant helper is better than no helper at all!

Usually my son helps me by holding my quilts for pictures – he is tall – 6’7″ so he rarely needs to stand on anything. His arm span fits a quilt better than his dad too! However, if I want to wait for him, I will wait a few more hours until he gets out of bed, and then the lighting won’t be as friendly to the quilts.

I guess if I made this a paid position I might get more willing “helpers”!