Monday, September 6, 2010

Star Crazy

by Karen on September 6, 2010

in quilts

Here it is at the beginning of another month and that means it is time to work on the Star Crazy BOM once again.  I do not want to get behind and we are nearing the finish point on this quilt.

 

I have my instructions printed out and placed in the ring binder to keep organized.

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Fabric is cut and ready to go for the first three of 9 blocks:

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More is picked out and waiting to be cut and made ready.  I like to get all of the stars organized and cut the fabric and have it stacked up ready for the machine sewing.  It keeps me better organized:

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This month we have 9 stars and 3 different styles of stars.  They will be easy once I get into the mood to sew them.

I have gotten a little more quilting done on the Christmas quilt and have given it another crank down of the roller – you can plainly see the end in sight now :)

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All the comments on EQ7 – wow – let me warn y’all now I am not a fast learner when it comes to computers so do not expect any reviews anytime soon.  I am in no rush and I am not always interested in sitting in front of my computer when the weather is nice so I will work at it gradually.  I will tell you a quick little story though of my adventure of getting started and then you will see why a review won’t be coming anytime soon !  LOL

I got the program out of the box the other day and looked the book over before setting down at the computer.  Then I shut down all of the running programs as it said to do.  I inserted the cd and got the program loaded on my computer and all went well!! accomplished one thing.  I went to the videos so I could start to learn this program and that is where I started to have problems – I looked through one and then another – then I looked at Mike and said “how I’m I supposed to learn this when they aren’t telling me anything” he of course said “what are you talking about”  I told him I was watching the instruction videos but they weren’t telling me anything – he just looked puzzled at me for a minute and then asked “do you have your volume turned on?

DUH! – ok now see why this might take awhile :)

(I do normally have my volume turned on – but I had been looking at blogs shortly before that – I don’t know about most of you but I hate it when a blog has music playing – most of the time it is music I do not like or I already have music playing in the house because I want to listen to my music – so quite often I shut the volume on the computer off so I am not startled when music comes blasting out of someone’s blog – I just forgot to turn my volume back on LOL  )

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend – I have spent most of my time outside so far and not in the house at my computer or sewing – well get back to it soon I’m sure.

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