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This is a string quilt I have been working on for my sister. Initially I planned on using the multiple diamonds layout that is most popular with this paper pieced block. However, I just could not face the prospect of making 16 more blocks so I began contemplating other layouts. After doing some looking around on flickr and the Web I came up with this one (similar to a values quilt layout). I think I like it; but, it may need one more row across the bottom so it is a rectangle instead of a square...opinions? Edit: I went ahead and added another row across the bottom. Also, I've learned that the name of this layout is Barn Raising.
I made this using this tutorial:
www.filminthefridge.com/2009/04/27/a-string-quilt-block-t...
By Film in the Fridge
And I decided that colours should be arranged one by one forming a rainbow.
Sorry for the bad pictures, it is too big to be photographed inside and outside it is really nasty :(
Another shot from that day. Seagulls waiting patiently to fish on a ship at Yokohama. The angle is different and a dark background of the ship provides the necessary contrast.
Abbey's favourite toy is a string of yarn :3
Trying my new lens, Nokton Voigtlander 58mm f/1.4 SL Ⅱ S for Nikon :)
Macro of a neglected 12 string guitar. Hasn't been touched over 2 years. Lots of dust. My attempt for a "Dutch Angle"
I didn't really need any more shots for my post, but this one was a beautiful one, so I thought hey, why not just have a beautiful shot of myself for funsies.
I also did a rather dark story, if you feel like having a little read.
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Link to the actual post if you want to read it:
secondlifesyndicate.com/2021/05/20/sewer-hunt-mournful-mo...
A bundle of string wrarped up and tied with a bow. Thank you for all your views, favs, and comments. HMM
More string blocks made using the variation tutorial I wrote. I love how the pieced centres are forming large, distinctive Xs. I'm using all of my favourite fabrics (and then some) and am planning on making a quilt large enough for our bed.
My tutorial can be found here: miss-print.blogspot.com/2010/07/tutorial-pieced-centre-st...
November 2018 - String of Lights
Beginner
Tammy Miller
Size: 5 x 7.25 in
I tried a few new things for this month's picture. I used Inktense, mainly Payne's Grey, for the base layer. I never done a grey underpainting with colored pencils. I used B&P titanium white/touch up texture to help get the whites for the lights and snow/bokeh bits. My idea was to make it seem like you are looking at the lights through a frosted window.
AKA grasses catching raindrops. OOF Godzilla in the background - Mr T's Agave! Warm and dry today. Hope all is well everyone - attempting to catch up in between other things today.
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One languishing on the hdd, Kirsty was the name of the model, cant make up my if the mono cuts the mustard over the colour....
Cheers
I caught this year's Fourth of July Independence Day celebration and used action on the medium telephoto-zoom. Here is an interesting capture though I got skunked after my long trek from the Golden Ponds parking when I discovered the nearly full moon was just above where the fireworks would display. I was in the good spot I used last year although I took shelter under a Roger's Grove tree during the heavenly sprinkle. I ran into the same problems with procedures shooting fireworks at night as I did last year. What else could go wrong on my long walk to the fourth venue from the Golden Ponds parking.
I named this capture after another theme from episodes of Big Bang Theory. This looks like one of those NASA images of things many millenia ago. Who coined the term, "the fabric of space." That was the late, great Carl Sagan probably. This seems to be star explosion. I particularly like the veiled bony fingers that happened over the hand-held, three second exposure. I've gotten hand-held veils like that before. I like the hand-held telephoto zoom traces without a spin. This EXIF reports 200mm but that was the report before I started to zoom. colors exploded at different times and during different parts of the zoom.
I was there to make a statement for independence... from billionaires. They can stay... if they pay even close to their share of taxes, that is. I fail to remember that the word "billionaires was in the phrase," ...of the people, by the people and for the people!
The most prominent problem is tracking the action and when to trigger the exposure: the display and eyepiece go blank and alternate tracking strategy is needed. I am coming up with an apparatus that could overcome the problem, I had trouble with accurately tracking the action while using the monopod so I ditched the monopod this year. Why would I need steady? I have conferred with several psychiatrists about the many people with explosive personality defects even though psychiatrists have little to do with the study of science.
I am adding these "action" shots to my stash, all of the fiery kind. Although I still have a pile to clean up, I dumped even more into storage this year. Apparently there was good motion and the usual shakes as the fireworks erupted. I remained impressed with how these can appear stable at all at these slow exposures. The colors: I thought of how to react to the mass of colors.
What can I say, when it comes to my postings, life is like a box of chocolates...
Some vignetting texture here, thanks to Playingwithbrushes.