Another new camera

Well I changed the Nikon camera I bought for another Fuji.  I have had a Fuji camera for 10 years and it has been really good,  I just wanted a new model with a few more MGP.  So I have gone from a 2mgp to a 14 mgp so I should notice a big difference in the quality of my pictures.  I haven't quite got to grips with it yet but I can just about take a photo.


I haven't done anything to my crazy quilt since my last blog, I don't know where the time has gone.  I have been making more fabric book pages, also teaching my granddaughter to knit and sew.  She is 22 years old and was a very creative artistic girl.  She has now become so critical about what she does now that it inhibits her to the point of not doing anything.  I am really pleased that she is enjoying sewing with me once a week.  A couple of weeks ago we made a pair of trousers for her from a re-jigged child's pattern.  They came out remarkably well considering I had to lengthen them, take them in and make them bigger around the waist and hips.  I made two long triangular pieces which fitted in from the waist downwards to just above the knee.  I will try to get a picture of them next time she comes over.  We made them out of some recycled 1950's curtains which had been in a holiday chalet somewhere.  They had a number and the words " chalet 4 " printed on a removable tape.   We have decided to use Chalet 4 as a brand name for anything else we design and make.

 

The garden is beginning to look nice and we have had a lovely display of tulips.  My husband has just made some really whacky wigwam type structures for when we put the sweet peas in.  We raided our boundary hedge for some sturdy poles, they were beginning to shoot so we have lovely sprouting posts.  We will put bean netting down the middle so that hopefully I won't need to keep tying them in.  I haven't tried this before so it will be interesting to see if it works.



Here are a few pictures from my fabric book making.  You will see that I have incorporated some recycled envelopes, some with windows which I am using as a frame for selected images.
 

A painted page and an envelope page with window.

A painted page with hand made block print.

A decorated double page on an envelope.

One side of a fabric page.



The other side of the fabric page.



Work in progress.

                       I hope by the time I next post a blog I will have done a lot more work.