You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important.
It is only important what you do.
~ Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls
Quilting
I haven't moved quickly but at least the quilt is in progress. I wanted a quilting design that honored the piecing, didn't have many starts and stops {burying threads takes so much time}, and was less densely quilted than usual for me. My friend, Marty, spent an hour with me on the phone discussing how to quilt this. We used FaceTime to see exactly what we were talking about. Isn't technology great!
We decided on orange peels in the star points and a modified flower in each background segment. It turned out better than expected. The quilting really shows, which is not always the case on printed fabrics.
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| FMQ arcs and flowers on LeMoyne Star |
The small sawtooth stars on the border will reprise those flowers and orange peels. Here's a sketch on transparent overlay. One of the nice things is that this doesn't have to be marked on the quilt.
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| Sketched FMQ ideas for Sawtooth Star blocks |
I'm still weighing options for the outer border.
Gardening
New Blogger
So many people are having trouble with the new Blogger that I wanted to share a trick I've used for a while. When starting a new post, I first write x's like this:
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Then I move the cursor to the lines between the xx's and add photos. In the example above, I can add three photos. I've found I must have some xx's {my temporary substitute for type} above and below each photo. If I want to add more photos, I first add more xx's to the "end" so there's always text after each photo. Does that make sense? Finally, I move the cursor to the xx's, type my text, and only then backspace out the xx's. Otherwise the text seems to become part of the captions and does those other weird things. I hope this helps.
24 comments:
Why Should we HAVE to do this ridiculousness is my question. I am done with New Blogger until they
F I X it!!!!!
Can you tell I am a bit cranky??? After 4 days with no electric power, my patience has worn right through!!! If they wipe out old blogger and just allow New--I am done with blogger for good...
this is just C R A Z E E!!!
there, that's my rant for the day... S I G H ...
Oh and I do love your LeMoyne Star--so pretty Julierose
I love how your quilting shows. And that radish is a tiny work of art. Thanks for the tip with the x’s. I ha e always had trouble with text becoming captions in blogger, but figured it was just me, and yes, I put some nonsense text at the bottom of my post to try to control that, too. I have also found that the font keeps changing from one paragraph to another with new blogger. That didn’t happen with the old. So now I’ll try your method with the series of x’s to see if that fixes that problem. Eventually, these little tricks will become habit. I hope?
I’m so frustrated with the new blogger interface and I haven’t even attempted to post a post. I love the quilting you’ve accomplished on your blocks so far. Slow and easy DOES win the race! Just take your time, quilt when you are inspired. I’ve never seen a watermelon radish. It looks pretty cool!
Thanks for the tip! I clicked on the "stay with the old Blogger" option. I wish they'd have created a tutorial. (Or have they? I haven't looked.) Your quilting design is just right for your star.
yes the xxxx's idea as place holders does help. I'm going to try that. I've been going in and leaving spaces for lines but you can't see them. That radish is a mariners compass... what inspiration it is! I sure like your quilting ideas too... they enhance the lines of piecing
LeeAnna
I ranted at Apple yesterday because they've changed the way my devices connect and don't make an easy way to adjust. I get maddest because I paid Apple for the devices.
OTOH we get Blogger for free. None of the tech companies have good instructions but at least I know where/how to leave comments for the programmers and they eventually get things fixed.
I used the xx's trick with old Blogger, too.
Thanks, Janine. I got very fond of watermelon radishes in my "restaurant" dinners because they are so attractive. They'd always use a peeler to slice narrow, curling circles from the radish so the beauty of it shows. And they are so mild.
I used the xx's trick with old Blogger, too, to keep my text from becoming part of the caption. And the font changes happen to me with old Blogger but double spacing is new to this version. The xx's are a work around that have become second nature to me.
I'm sure they are working very hard to catch all the nuances of old coding.
Try my xx's template and see if it helps. As you write, slow and easy does it. None of the tech companies have good documentation and this is a free service. But I'm sticking with it since I don't like the quirks and restrictions of the other blog creators. I know where/how to send comments to Blogger and feel like they eventually fix things.
I'm glad you like the quilting so far. It helps to take it slow. Something I'm only learning now. Haha.
The radish is absolutely gorgeous but very mild. The restaurants serve is as thin curls on top of a salad.
I haven't seen many instructions but they are still trying to fix unintended consequences I think. They did have some decent instructions and online community postings for old Blogger so I suppose it will occur sometime in future. And no tech company has good instructions. They all assume you have too much prior knowledge.
I wasn't sure about the design when I started but am liking it better daily. It was fun to have a concrete pattern that held the quilt but had more open areas.
That' what I found, too. I try to leave a blank line above and below each photo so things don't "blend" unexpectedly. You know: xx, blank line, blank line, blank line, xx then use the middle blank line to insert a photo.
They radish is pure beauty. Not spicy like regular radishes though.
It was a treat to make a concrete design on the quilt that still looked good with open spaces around it.
And it's good you have power back. We forget how much we rely on utilities until they are off. I always found lack of water was the worst after hurricanes because we couldn't flush the toilets since the effluence just went to the flood. My great-grandparents only had an outhouse and we used them camping but it seems harder to use them in town.
Your quilting looks great on this quilt, love the orange peel effect! As for the new Blogger, I'm just muddling through. Not sure about what you mean, but maybe if I give it a go it'll become clearer to me?
… also we've just gone back into lockdown L3 here in NZ, so on the scale of things blogging seems to have slipped off my radar lately.
Thanks, Linda. I'm glad you like the quilting, too. How sad to read that NZ must have another lockdown. You all did so well last time, everyone following the rules, that hopefully you will get on top of it soon. It does make Blogger problems slip into their correct priority... very low. Stay safe.
Your quilting design is so lovely. The radish is something new to me. Does it taste like watermelon or does it just look like a watermelon with a regular radishy bite? I haven't had a lot of trouble with the new blogger except getting text inserted before the first picture. Your tip will really help with that. Thanks.
The quilting on the LeMoyne Star shows up beautifully! Exciting to see the beginning of the quilting process. I have heard of a watermelon radish before but they look delicious, do they taste just like the normal radish?
It only looks like a watermelon. Tastes like a radish.
I’ve always made my template with each new post and I’ve never had any of the issues everyone else talks about.
I’m excited about this quilting. It was a joy to quilt a plant. Yes, they taste like radishes.
Your quilting looks wonderful. Love how you have such attention to detail and ensure lovely texture in your quilts.:)
Oh, your quilting is so inspiring and gorgeous. That's something I should spend more time learning but it just doesn't seem to be my area of interest right now. FMQ seems like a lot of work for me at this time and so I can't focus on it. I prefer to hand quilt. I guess I feel like I have more control there.
I just planted a second crop of radishes (and lettuce and spinach and mustard greens). I've never seen Watermelon radishes before. Or maybe I didn't pay any attention to the radish section of the seed catalog. I usually save seed from year to year and have German Giant, Pink Lady Slipper, Cherry Belle. Looks like I might have to add Watermelon radishes for a gourmet touch.
In re your quote...it is so confusing to see how so many people's actions do not match their words these days. Makes me almost want to stop listening! (I think I already have).
Aren't you kind, Audrey. I wanted to complement the piecing and hoped a bit less quilting would take less time. It has worked so far but more than half the quilt remains so it may take longer. Worthwhile to focus on something I usually ignore.
I prefer piecing to quilting, too. And I like printed fabrics so the quilting rarely shows. It amazed me how much this design shows. I love the look of hand quilting but never get it done and now handwork hurts my hands if I do very much.
I would love to save the seeds but I'm not sure where they are on radishes. Do you just let one or two "go to seed" and harvest from a flower? These are so very pretty and taste like radishes but they take much longer to grow. I put half of mine in a window box and found that was a mistake. Not enough room. I need to start a second set soon though.
That quote really got to me. Have you read the book? It's about a boy mourning the death of his mother. Probably in the YA section. I think it was made into a movie but I almost always prefer to read.
I have been "out of service" for the last week, but now I am back. The quilting looks so good! I have been having issues with my yellow squash. I picked one and it was so hard I could barely cut it then the other one right beside the hard one was squishy. I cut the squishy one off so the plant would not give it any more energy and maybe the next one will be good. The couple of zucchini I picked were fine. Gardening/farming is hard! You never know what you might get!
Thanks for the tip on the new blogger. It is fussy!
I'm glad you're back and hopefully things are repaired around town, too. My last green beans were not very tasty. IDK what happened. The squash is good so far. And good thing I'm not depending on this as my entire food source.
I found old Blogger fussy, too, and that's how I came up with "my template." It's easier than trying to fix all the funny stuff.
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