Our first Quilting experience

Ruthanne, Grandma Victoria and I went to Marg McCuloch's house to learn how to use "Lenny" her long arm quilting machine. She walked us through it and let myself and Victoria quilt one quilt each. I started with the little baby quilt for Jameson. Then it was Victoria's turn.
She is concentrating really hard. It's scary at first.
She is continuing the pattern . . .
Here is the pattern.
Removing the quilt.
Tada! It is all quilted.

This is the baby quilt all quilted. Now for the binding . . .

Photography Challenge #45 - Leaf

I love the quote that Kristi chose for this challenge an autumn leaves. I believe that we can always find beauty in the things around us . . . maybe even garbage, that may be a stretch. Kristi and Melissa have done a fantastic job of their leaf pictures.
We don't have many beautiful leaves now There have been heavy winds and they tend to strip the trees of their leaves. This is what I was able to find at our Park by the Old Man River today. We rarely see reds since we are in the west where few true maple trees can grow. This was my favorite find.
This is the river. I love the reflected color in the river. Too bad the winds took a lot of it away.

Photographic Challenge #44 - Feet

This fun challenge by Kristi and Melissa was about feet. Here is my view of feet of my grand daughter on a trampoline! I had to go to sports mode to catch these little feet in action. They are dirty with summer barefoot wandering! So fun! You should have seen the face . . . priceless.

Baby Quilt for Jameson

We made another baby quilt top today. It will be for Jameson because it is much more of a boy's quilt than the first one. What do you think?

Scrapbook Template attempt - cute subjects

Phographic Challenge #43 - Doors

This challenge is going to be so much fun!!! Kristi and Melissa want us to photograph doors this time. I love doors and have been collecting pictures . . . to bad you only want to see one. I'll have to choose carefully.
As usual I went in a totally different direction. I wish I could say that this door was meaningful to me but it just attracted my attention. I chose this door for the grace and beauty of it's older function. How many people have entered in this arched door and why? It is a door I saw in England, hense the mideval look. The iron work is awesome too.

Baby Quilt for a new baby

Today Victoria and I made a quilt for Adina and Scott's new Baby! It went together really quickly. Adina laughed while Victoria and I fussed over just the right combinations to make it look good. It was fun! The only problem is that Scott thinks it is too girly for a baby boy. It's the flowers he doesn't like so back to the drawing board. We'll save this one for some other time. The pattern is called Espanade. Merrick wanted to help cut the quilt blocks. :)

Photography Challenge #42 - Pink

There are so many shades of pink! All are beautiful but I chose this one for Kristi and Melissa's Pink Challenge.

Photographic Challenge #41 - Polka Dots

Polka dots are so fun. Thanks Kristie and Melissa for this week's challenge. I can't wait to see what you do next. Great pictures you two.
I had to dig into my archives to find some polka dots since my granddaughter doesn't live close. Here is my little polka dot girl.

I threw in this other photo just to make you all laugh at her sharing her chips. Enjoy!

Kristen Duke's "Say No To Auto" Revised

I have really enjoyed the first edition of her e-book. It has helped me understand how the manual settings really work. I always wondered how to get the shadow of of people's faces. Lighting and settings are so important. This e-book really is a must have for those of us who are novices and trying to learn. I'm glad I got mine however I still need to practice. That's the fun of Photography . . . always learning, always experimenting. Check out Kristen's blog here.