Why I am not quilting

Hello quilting family.
My vision is giving me problems. I have tried several times to do a portrait and have messed up beautiful fabric. I am having problems reading anything, even when I put on glasses. So I am getting my eyes check this coming Monday. I am really here to tell you to please keep in close contact with your doctor when you are going on a diet. I started a diet in January and I am doing every well with the weight loss problem. I have talked with my doctor and a nutrientionist. Here is the problem, I pass out at work this pass Friday. Once I got to the hospital they thought that I was having a stroke. My pressure was going up and down so they treated me as a stroke patient, because of other things that was going. I saw my doctor yesterday and she believe that because I am lossing weight that my body was having a reaction to the medications that I was taking. Right now I am only on one medication, which is for my blood pressure. And she is running test on me just to check to see if anything else comes up. So my advise is to just check in on your doctor once in a while, while you are on a diet. Because while you are losing the weight and getting healthy your medication has to be change.

This is just a little something for you to think about.

To the ladies in Virginia, you know who you are I was look at may to meet, but I think I will push it to june. I will call you.

Stitches for now

Yetunde

red and white, too

check out felicia's blog at http://www.theslowquilter.blogspot.com/ she has posted pictures of some of the red and white quilts exhabit.

RED & WHITE, TOO QUILT EXHABIT

red and white,too  

artist reception & gallery talk

saturday february 11, 1 to 4pm.

off-rhode studio/ art enables

2204 rhode island ave, ne

www.art-enables.org/off-rhode

click the link and see a 3D presentation of the exhibit.

i have 3 pieces in this exhabit.

stitches, would to see you there.

yetunde

ps i will download picture of the event after the 11th reception. 

it's finish

 it is finally finish.  it is call, "is this sandyalice?" this quilt looks like a coworker.  after i showed it to to a couple of people at work some of them did think that it looked like sandy.  sandy said she was honored that i thought the quilt look like her.  she thinks it look better than her.  so now i am going to try to find someone else make.  before this creative energy leaves me again.

stitches for now

yetunde

long time

it has been a long time since i have blog. i have been kind of busy.  and my creativity have not been going to good.  i have tried several time to do a portrait quilt and the faces were not coming out to good.  i was trying to use application from the ipad to  make my portrait quilt and it was not coming out like i wanted it to.  even when i went back to photoshop element on my laptop, i was still having problems getting portraits the way i wanted.   but i think this one is coming out ok.  i was trying to do my friends picture of her son and a coworkers picture and i was having problems.  so i gave up on them.  and just took a break from it for a while.  it takes me longer to get the picture the way i want it to break down into different shades.  i am having problem with breaking down the different shading in the face to help me make it into a quilt.  if anyone knows of an application with ipad that is very much like photoshop element please let me know.    there are a few things that i still have to use my laptop for, like doing my portrait quilts...  i am getting use to the ipad and i want to try to use that more because it much lighter than the laptop.  here is a picture of what i have started so far.  it is not complete but here is what i have done so far.  i found the face off the internet. but guess what it still does not lot the original picture.  but i like it any way.  

i hope you like what i have done so far.

if you have time please check my friend felicia's blog.  she is new to blogging but she has a lot to say.  her blog is www.theslowquilter.blogspot.com  if you have very been on a quilt treat with her you never know what she will do or say.  the girl is a lot of fun and crazy on retreat so lets see what she can do with a blog. 

stitches for now.

yetunde  

more zen gifts

well, i am making more gifts.  my back is feeling a little better, so i trying my hand at machine quilting.  i am drawing zentangle on fabric and then i am making them into small little purses.  someone at my guild had did a workshop on making them and i can not find the instructions that were give out so i am making them from memory.  i was doing something else when the person was doing the workshop.  they are a little different from the ones they made at the guild.  here's a picture of what i made.

 not a good picture.

a couple of weeks back at wee bee quilter's group we had a jellyroll race and i came in second place. first person who finish first will win a roll of jellyroll fabric.  i was really surprise that i came in second place.  i won a small jellyroll.  gwen came in first place, it was fun doing this.  this was the second time since i had been at a sewing machine since my problem with my back.  while we were doing the race a couple of time i thought about stopping.  i felt my back getting a little stiff, charlene who was in charge of the race gave us a 10 minute break and that helped and then we started again.  later gwen shouted out first and then i shouted out 15 minutes later that i was finish, that was the longest 15 minute, it felt like a hour.  i thought my back would be sore the next day by lugging the sewing machine around, but i was ok.  here is a pictues of what we did.  

i am the one hiding my face and gwen is the one in the middle.  my other pictures are on my ipad, and i am still learning how to use it.  don't know how to transfer pictures yet.  i am using my laptop right now. 

 so i am going to says,

stitches for now.

i am going to go play on my ipad.

so stitches for now again.

yetunde

zen

the holiday's are coming and every year i make gifts for my family and quilting friends.  since i have been doing zentangle, i have decided to do some zentangle on fabric, bags and cards.    i have been working on a lady that i have been drawing on fabric.  this will  be made into a quilt.  it will be call  Ms. Zen, i really like how it looks.  i might make this a red and white quilt.  i am also zentangling on bags and i am still trying to decide if i am going to keep making them for my family.  i am also doing a little knitting. so with all these projects going on somebody will at least get something from me.  i am zentangle on cards and drawing names on the cards.  the grand kids and a couple of nieces will get gift cards from me.  and a couple of x-box games for the boys. my back and knees are still giving me problems so no shopping in the malls.

here are some pictures of what i have been doing.  still working on the lady, here are a few cards that i have been making for my quilting friends.  most of the time i usually make quilt related item for my quilting friends.  the bags are for some of my cousins and one for a friends birthday present.    i know thanksgiving is not here yet and i am talking about gift making.  i like to start early, don't want to feel rush. 

stitches until next time.

yetunde