Friday Jan 07, 2022

[Adamphotoman]

Morning,
TGIF
I have boxes of old prints and negatives. It will give me a lot of practice converting negatives. Here is one of our youngest now 40

   

[damar]

That is a really fine spontaneous looking capture, Grant!
Beautiful close up!
Well you have something to do during your winter months now!

Thanks for starting the Friday Daily. I did leave comments on the Thursday thread.
Trying to catch up here!

This is back in the early 1990s when I was still hand quilting on my homemade
wooden frame (out on the back deck at our other house) I may have posted this before: can't remember.
That quilt is "Dahlonega Square" (my name for it) 
We were up in Dahlonega, GA decades ago and I saw this quilt (but in different fabrics/colors).
I got a paper and pencil and sketched it freehand right there in the antique store and when I got home, I 
drafted the pattern. 
It was almost finished on the frame. The 2nd photo is it folded and hung on the quilt rack.
(with some of my other works)
It was lap quilt size because it was just to test my pattern drafting.
I used whatever fabrics I had on hand.
These are scans of 35mm film prints (I know, they look bad!)
   

Tomas the cat was holding everything down so I could take the photo
   

[Luv2shoot]

Wow, that is awesome, Patty. I don't mind the quality of the photos, you are telling a story, it is not about the composition, focus, etc. I am amazing at the number of quilts you have in just that one photo. They are all so pretty, it would be hard to pick a favorite. Do you have any idea about how many quilts, no matter what size you made over the years? If you don't have the answer now, I am sure after you finish cataloging them all, you can give us a number.

I am also impressed that you used your drafting skills to duplicate the pattern. After you duplicate the pattern, do you just add a quarter inch to each shape for seam allowance? Have you ever created your own patterns?

Thanks, Grant, for starting our daily. Your family is quite photogenic, as seen in yesterday's photo of your mom. I did add comments about the bricklayer photograph that you shared several days ago. I am not sure that you saw it.

I have to go dig for some photos, the pickings are slim right now.
Be back in a bit.
Have a good day and keep your chin up.
LORELL

[Dave]

Grant, it's fortunate that these old treasured photos have someone as skilled as you to resurrect them.

Homemade frame and self-designed and produced quilts - very impressive damar.

Slim pickings here too, Lorell. And a gray, foggy morning usually means poor shooting conditions for me. This is the best I managed on my early walk; a Christmas tree left outside and waiting for today's trash pickup...

   

[Luv2shoot]

Good Day, Dave.  Well, I hope it is a good day for you that you are having.  Ah, I hope you stopped to smell the spruce tree.  I love that smell. We don't see many live Christmas tree lots anymore around here.  And this would be the time of the  month when people would be putting out their trees to the curb to get picked up by the garbage men. But I did not see ANY in our neighborhood yesterday.  A sad tradition that bites the dust but definitely replaced by a safer model. 

Here's a mural of Stevie Wonder.  I think he's singing, Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing.  Keep that song floating in your head as you venture into this weekend.

[damar]

Thanks Lorell!
The Stevie Wonder mural is pretty amazing in size!
I also like the "Detroit" banner underneath which looks like a large postcard!
Nice photo!

Hi Dave,
Awww the greens are pretty and the touches of dry brown are the fate of the
tree. I hate to see them discarded like that.
I am pro re-useable tree for our household but don't care if others buy real trees.
For awhile when I was living in FL the city was gathering them up and putting them out in
the ocean to form artificial reefs (yea, thats what they said about used car tires too!)
LOL

Yes, Lorell,
When drafting a pattern, its easiest to just draw it within
the finished size square (if "square" is applicable) and then cut the pieces apart and add 1/4" seam allowances.
I don't think anyone could invent a quilt block pattern that has not already be made because most of them are basic geometric designs.
Of course, crazy quilts are always unique: every single one of them.

Right now, I can say there are 14 quilts on the spare bed, under a sheet. Most of which I made in the last 3 years.
(all sizes from crib to queen) never been used. If anyone in my family asks for a quilt, they can come over and pick out what they want, but I made each of my kids quilts about 2 years ago. (grandson is always included as "one of my kids" as are spouses of aforementioned)
I always save my design sheets in a binder with notes, dates and construction details. It's like a diary now.
I almost always design my own quilts and have only a few times, used someone else's design.
Its the freedom of being a mostly "scrap quilter".
I do plan to make an Amish quilt one of these days.

[Rich]

Grant, awesome portrait. It doesn't get much better than that.

Patty, good looking quilting rack. Our church quilters had something similar.

Good looking display rack too. Lots of work there, but a labor of love I am sure! Good job on the drafting skills too!
Thomas had the seat of honor!

Dave, A picked clean tree, no icicles or popcorn strings on it!

Lorell, WoW! What a mural! Amazing. I am in awe of anyone who can do that! It is huge!!
I was asked to do a mural of a theater that burned down for the wall on the new Community Theater building. I had to say no as I knew nothing about the process. I had given them my original watercolor framed, for the new lobby and I made canvas prints for them to use as a fund raiser at my cost. The theater was a historic structure with a lot of history. Lots of good times with a date in the balcony!
Here is my watercolor of it.

[Adamphotoman]

Hey Rich, Me thinks you have looked at Edward Hopper once or twice. Could do worse. I like your freedom with the wet media....
Patty, My mom made quilts. She gave me one. I will try to send along an image sometime.

[Rich]

Grant, thanks. My work and Edward Hopper's work in the same breath is high compliment! I have done a few of the local Icons that were from my youth and some no longer with us. If you want to see a couple more check this out, Mitchell Icons.

[Adamphotoman]

Another of our youngest.