![]() It was one of those bright days when you could smell that autumn was around the corner, one of those days that makes you want to RUN OUTSIDE and find a way to preserve the sunshine for the long winter ahead. When the day came to baste it, I couldn’t bear so much grey. (#notpregnant)Ģ) I bought grey minky to back this quilt. Sometimes I’m not sure what to say about a quilt that I haven’t already said.ġ) It’s 50”ish by 50”ish. Head over to the Quilt Photographers category and check out the other great quilts (and great quilt photos)! I used leftover HSTs from my X-plus quilt to make the blocks, orange scraps from my stash to make the back, scraps from my first Washi Dress to make the binding, and even batting scraps for the batting. ![]() This Ocean Waves quilt was made using the pattern from Denyse Schmidt’s book Modern Quilts Traditional Inspiration but with modifications to block size and number of blocks. I promise your quilts are beautiful, and you should be sharing them with all of us, so that we can tell you how gorgeous they are. If you quilt and don’t photograph your work to share on the internet (Flickr, Instagram, a blog) But what’s nicer? The first kind person who “favorites” your photo on Flickr. I’ve also learned the valuable lesson that a quilt isn’t finished until you’ve photographed it. I’m now consistently able to take photographs of a finished quilt that I can be proud of. I’m getting better at staging them (these photos were taken at Crane Beach in Ipswich MA *sniff sniff* our “local” beach) (please don’t hate me)Īnd I’m just getting better at them in general. Just this summer I started taking photos using Aperture Priority mode (and these past two weeks something is going wrong and I don’t know how to fix it aaaaack)īut this year I’ve made real progress in photographing my finished quilts. When I switch my camera to Manual, I don’t get pictures. ![]() The irony of entering a quilt into the Quilt Photographers category of the Blogger’s Quilt Festival does not at all escape me. ![]()
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