Sunday, September 26, 2010

My New Camera

After a couple of false starts, I received my new camera in the mail -- actually, "Brown" (What can Brown do for you?) attempted to deliver twice and my sweet husband went to the local depot to collect it on the second day. I was away at a four day quilt retreat and picked it up later.

I still have to learn the tips and trick to this new camera -- it is kind of like my old one (may it rest in peace), but I will just have to play with it. This is the first photo I took with my new camera -- a two-color quilt I started and finished in the last four days at retreat.


It is for a National Fabric and Craft chain's challenge and all will need to be completed by December 18th to be considered. I was a semi-finalist in a similar contest for the same chain several years ago. As I get closer to completing the work I will give more details. And here is a detail of a photographic nature:

The block pattern is an off-centered square in a square called "Happy Hour" but I drafted it myself to be an 8.5" block. The setting and borders are of my own design and I wanted two of the squares to have "runaway centers". I will need to applique these in place.
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Speaking of running away, my husband and I will be going away to the gulf coast for a few days. I will not have internet and so will probably get very far behind in my reading of blogs and certainly in my writing of them. I will post photos and details when we return, but I sure am looking forward to quiet walks on the beach and hours spent reading and beading.
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If you were to run away, where would you go and what would you do?

3 comments:

Spirited Earth said...

congratulations on the new camera,
i finally got a little Canon and i love it ...love it..so easy to use and the micro option( yes my old camera was ancient) changed everything.
i just broke down and bought a table light box kit.
are you going to Galveston?

TesoriTrovati said...

I want to run away somewhere more exotic than here... like France... or Tuscany... or Ireland... or Bali. But that would necessitate a passport. So I escape via my friends in the blogdom... so take pictures so I can 'travel' with you!

Enjoy the day!
Erin

I LOVE color! said...

Congrats on getting a new camera. I have a cannon and I love it. It does not have a large zoom but lots pf pixils.Have a goooood time on the beach I covet. Be Blessed