Thursday, November 25, 2010

Farmer’s Wife quilt continued

Well earlier this week I was able to get a group of the blocks ready to sew together. I have 2 sewn together now and 1 about half done. So they are moving along nicely the goal is to have this group done by the next quilt guild meeting. on Dec 7th. So far if I can keep at them over the next few days I am pretty sure I will have them done in time.
The organizing the sewing room has not gotten far. As I seem to take one step forward the progress goes backward as I cut out blocks for a quilt or do some other project. Oh well as long as thing seem to swim to the surface where I can find them no big deal.
I will try and take some pictures of the new blocks done later I need to pick up batteries for the camera.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Electronic gadgets can be such a pain

I have an iPod touch that I normally dearly love to use.  Yesterday I found a book in a set of 3 I wanted to download off the web site provided by our local library. I love having downloadable books to listen to as I am working on projects specially if the project is one that does not take a lot of concentration to complete.   So found the book added it to my cart and downloaded it to my computer then you need to transfer the book from that program to your devices that you are using to listen to the book with.

Sounds easy right well to download it to my iPod you have to use iTunes also no big deal make sure the setting are right and go for it. Then you can let it transfer and you are good to go. For some reason this book will not transfer. The previous book moved over to the iPod no problem but not this one. I figured ok no big deal I would just reload the iPod not a huge deal just have to adjust some things and the I can put things back into it.

You know what it is like when you think messing with an electronic gadget will not be a problem that is when you run into major issues. It took me most of the evening to get thru all the hoops and get it reloaded. Then the final straw is this morning I go to transfer the book and nope it will not transfer. So now I am in a quandary as to what to try next.

I have a second smaller player that I have not used in a while since I got the iPod so figured I would just charge that and use it to listen to this book well that plan is not going well either. I cannot find that player any where so it looks like I am going to be doing a major cleaning search for that gadget and hopefully I will find it before my 1 week loan on the book has run out.

I can listen to the book by playing it on the computer but that is just not as convenient having to move the lap top to what ever room I travel too since I don’t always stay put when listening a lot of time I am working on cleaning up and you know how that never seems to work all in one space at one time. You have to run and put something away etc.

I may just have to contact apple and see if they have any ideas though the last time they said it was the other program not there sure easy to blame something else.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Wonder where that Post Went


Yesterday I did up a post and now I check and it does not seem to be any where. Hmm weird

Sunday started out with a scratch throat and Monday turned into a full blown cold that pretty much made the rest of this week miserable.

It has gone from a sinus cold to a chest cold and much more workable to deal with a simple cough and a little congestion and I am guessing a few more days to another week knock on wood I can shake that off too.

So all I have been doing is either sleeping or working and not a lot of anything else. Yesterday and today have not been to bad the rest of the week I do not want to do over!!!!

I skipped my small guild meeting on Monday one I did not want to share the germs with them and two after doing my think at work all I wanted to do was crawl back into bed and that is exactly what I did.

Today is a cold dark and rainy day. At least we are not seeing any of that white rain stuff. That too will probably happen as time moves on

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Farmer’s Wife Update

Today I finished the first 6 block for the month of Oct. Our two wonderful group leaders have gone thru the list of blocks and selected blocks that use similar type of units in the blocks. DSCF1942
So far I have enjoyed the hand piecing of these blocks it is an experience but a rather fun one.
I also took pictures of my sewing room after the program on an organizer I thought it might be interesting to see what I can do with the info she told us in the program.
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This is a panoramic view starting with the south West corner and working around the room. sure is looking kind of messy in this shot but that is how it is. Smile
DSCF1938The closet area with the shelves full of fabric most of it is organized either by size of piece or color. The set of drawers has different things like elastic, ribbon, zippers, and rick rack in the different drawers. I have finished quilt  tops and some fabric that is suited for clothing hanging.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Quilt Guild

Well Tue at quilt guild we had a speaker Becky Esker about organization and setting up a system etc. A lot of what she said made so much sense.

Plus I always thought of those movie/tv sets you know nothing out of place etc. Well she definitely stated you can be organized and not be all fussy and neat. I thought that was interesting and in a lot of ways true being organized means that you can find what you are looking for. Not that everything is all sealed away in closets/drawers/or shelves.

I also thought it was interesting that the plan is to go thru things sort it and figure out what you need/want and what you can clear out and then get things to organize into and not to do it in reverse get a bunch of containers and then try and organize what you have to fit the containers.

Definitely a worth while program put on by an excellent speaker

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