Computer Broken and other issues!

You may have noticed that over the last 2 weeks that I have only had my Link a Finish Friday posts.  2 weeks ago my computer got sick and died.  It started out with my hard drive throwing thousands of errors and then after spending a few days doing check disk and repair pieces of the operating system just started to fall apart.

My kind wife bought me a Solid State Hard Drive so that I no longer have a spinning disk in the computer to go bad.  Sadly I had no backups of my operating system and no copy to re install.  So my wonderful wife bought me a new operating system.  We went from Windows 7 which I love to Windows 8.1 which I can almost stand.

But you would think that is the least of all sad things that can happen in my life.  My favorite piece of software I had was Photoshop SE It came as one of the perks on the operating system so I had a legal version of it.  Because I installed a new operating system on a new hard drive (every thing else is old) I now no longer have a photo editing software.

Any way I have a pile of quilts, and a pile of pictures that I need to edit and a sad face that I don't have photo shop.  If any one can tell me their favorite free or extremely low budget picture editing software I would appreciate it.  I need to edit, crop, touch up and watermark my pictures what do you use and love at a price I can afford.

Link A Finish Friday #158

Here are some of the great link ups from last week

Jellyfish - Quilting, Art and Pattern Design

Flimsy - Podunk Pretties

Old + New - Simple :: Dream :: Quilts

Irish Twist - Tracy's Bits N Pieces

Quilt Round Up - Quilting is more fun then Housework

Rainbow ZigZags - Fabric Engineer

Thank you for the many link ups last week

Link up Rules are simple.  Link up something you have finished, Worked on, blogged about, slaved over or other wise accomplished over the last week or so.

No item not allowed.  Link up some of yours, visit some of the others and enjoy your quilting day.

Link A Finish Friday #157

Here are some Link up from last week.

Happy Finish - Joanie's Trendy Quilts

The Inside Stori - Mary Stori

Rail Fence UFO - Quilting Stories

Behind the Tree - Quilts Plus Color

 

Sew Preeti Quilts - Squirrel Kisses

Thank you for the many link ups last week

Link up Rules are simple.  Link up something you have finished, Worked on, blogged about, slaved over or other wise accomplished over the last week or so.

No item not allowed.  Link up some of yours, visit some of the others and enjoy your quilting day.

What's on the Quilting Table #17

Today is a quilting day.  I start above quilting one of our very simple square quilts.  Tanya had me make these simple quilts to see how they sell compared to some of the more complex quilts on Etsy.  As they are simple to make they will be priced a little cheaper.

I got to quilt and bind my peach quilt for our new Diamonds pattern.  Hum I guess I can't call it a pattern yet as I have not wrote it.  I should really do that soon.

I also quilted and then bound the yellow and brown version of the same quilt.  The first one I quilted more simply then the 2nd.  I am curious which people will like better.

Tanya and I went though our quilt stash and realized we have almost completely sold out of our rag quilts.  So we have set to cutting up the bolts (yes bolts like 5 of them) and many other smaller cuts of flannel that we have.  We are making kits for me and the kids to sew X though.  We realized before we got far into cutting that we have materials for like 20-30 quilts.

Reunion Gray

I love the reunion material and here is another fantastic quilt made from it.  This is our Simple Squares pattern that we sell on Craftsy.

This is another quilt that will show up on our Etsy Store.