Using Up the Scraps

I love scrap quilts!!  Love, love, love them!   This is a log cabin quilt made entirely from scraps!  My obsessive compulsive behavior sometimes leads me to some really fun adventures.  This one started when I was having trouble disposing of scraps of fabric from quilting projects.  I decided to cut the scraps into one-inch strips and make as many log cabin blocks as I could.  The fabric had to be able to be categorized as a "light" or a "dark".  And the piece of leftover fabric had to be at least one inch wide and 1 1/2 inch long.  So I started with a one and half inch square and just started building the log cabins.  Lights and darks.

Now, I really thought I was going to run out of scraps and then I would know how big this was going to be.  However, there seems to be an endless supply of scraps that fit my criteria in my sewing room.  In fact, there are 324 five-inch log cabin blocks in this quilt and probably enough scraps left to do it again!  Do it again?  Oh no, I don't think so.  Not right away anyhow. 

It is time to move on to some other quilt projects that have been waiting patiently.  So off I go to the cutting table to make more scraps.  TTFN!

Happy Birthday, Michael Dayley

 I think I finally figured it out!  Been playing with Picasa for a couple of days now and found out how to upload a picture.  At least, let's say, a picture looks like it is going to upload to my blog.  Yippee!! 

The process of learning how to get a picture into a blog took many paths over the past few days.  I am not one to dwell in the past.  So pictures of the past are really not something I spend a lot of time on.  But, wow, it was really fun looking at all the pictures I had saved over the years!  Some of them, I have no idea who is in the picture or where I was when that picture was taken.  Does everyone have pictures like that?  It was very nice to get all the pictures organized into folders.  Still have some work to do on that and need to get all these pictures stored somewhere in the "cloud" so I do not have to worry about which hard drive and where they are.  Anyone out there have a really good way to store pictures digitally?

Anyway, back to the picture above.  Today is my grandson Michael's 14th birthday!  Happy Birthday, Michael.  This is my favorite picture of Michael, buried in the sand on the beach in Kauai a few years ago.  Hope you have a terrific day, Michael!

Now I am off to Friendship Stars sewing bee with great quilty friends.  TTFN

First step into the Blog World

Here I go, jumping into the world of bloggers. I have no idea where this is going to take me but I have to give it a try. There are so many things I want to share with my family and friends. Like, for example, this last weekend, my tennis team from the IU Tennis Center were in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to play in the Midwest Regional Championship for USTA. Now we did not win but we did not come in last either. And we are officially the 7.5 Women's Combo league 2011 champions for the state of Indiana. Thank you to Debbie (our captain), Susan, Sarah, Katie, Carol, Sharon, Mary, and Jocelyn for being such a great team.

Now I have to learn how to post pictures to this blog. Wonder why the tab for adding pictures from my iPad is not working? I am off to do some more research on this. More later! TTFN!