Rag Quilt Explosion on Whats on the Quilting Table #18

Many weeks back, Tanya and I sat down and decided that we were going to cut up all the bolts of flannel that we have and make rag quilt kits.  That  way we can easily grab a bag and me and the kids could put together a fast quilt..

When I first sat down to cut, I did not comprehend the amount of flannel that we had to cut.  It took me a entire Saturday afternoon and part of Sunday to finish cutting.

When all was said and done we had a huge pile of prospective quilts.

I am not sure of the final number, but more then 30 quilts will be made out of this pile.  They are all cut out and I just need to cut batting, Sew some X and then the rows together and presto another quilt.

Oh ya, then make Tanya snip all the edges.  It might take us months to get this pile dented.

Sawtooth Flimsy a quilting Acident

A few weeks back (oh did I mention the computer blew up) I set out to make a quilt for a lady at work that is having a baby.  She asked me for a Chevron quilt.

I had seen a picture of a Chevron that was not a HST which I had done in the past.  It used Rectangles cut into triangles.  I thinking I can do that.  I sat down and cut out all of my material (you know me I can make multiple quilts at once).  Any way after cutting it all out I went to lay out my Chevron quilt and had to laugh as I needed half cut one direction and half the other.  So taking my blunder to my EQ7 I created a new pattern which I am going to call my Sawtooth Quilt.  Hey it was almost a Chevron!

Link A Finish Friday #160

Welcome to Link A finish Friday.  Here are some of the fantastic link ups from last week.

Finish Friday - Katy Quilts

Team Jersey Baby Quilt Flimsy - The Carpenters Daughter Who Quilts

Rectangle Island Quilt - Cheryl's Teapots2Quilting

Sweet Sixteen Scrap Quilt - Quilt Musings

Lemon Shake up Finish - Podunk Pretties

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 #159

Here are some of the great link ups from last week.

Academic Quilter - Mutant Elephants

A Quilting Reader's Garden - WIP'S 4 Done

 

Pug Mom Quilts - Thursday Girl Quilting

My Lucky Stars - Quilts Plus Color

Leah @ L3Designs - Rain Drop Quilts

Busy Hands Quilts- Rainbow Sparkler Quilt

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.

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.