Runaway October

So, my pho­tographs are typ­i­cally pretty… blah. I took pho­tog­ra­phy in High School, but for some rea­son my brain is just not trans­fer­ring those skills to digital.

One of my goals this year is too get bet­ter with my cam­era and coin­ci­den­tally The MCP Project 52 signups hap­pened to cross my path.

Here’s the gist:

MCP Project 52 – It’s a way to encour­age cre­ativ­ity, make pho­tog­ra­phy fun, and pro­vide a chal­lenge with­out actual pres­sure. Par­tic­i­pants will [sic] shar­ing their art work and images weekly while inspir­ing each other.

The theme of the first week, which I am slightly behind on, was “Around The House” so here’s my go.

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I fixed some of the overblown and added a vin­tage photo fil­ter to it.

I hop­ing that if I keep fid­dling with my cam­era every week that I’ll get bet­ter. Hope­fully.

If you’d like to join–and we’d love to have you–the infor­ma­tion is here. And be sure to stop by the Flickr pool of all the par­tic­i­pat­ing pho­tos here. There are some out­stand­ing pho­tos in there!

Did I men­tion that I was par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 2009 Chi­nese Coin Quilt Piece-along? It’s being hosted by two of my favorite blog­gers: Juli­ette of Chick­pea Sewing Stu­dio and Karin of Orange Flower. Basi­cally, the premise is to com­plete a Coin Quilt some­time within the year of 2009. That’s it. No dead­lines, no require­ments or restric­tions, no part­ners, no noth­ing. How much eas­ier can it get?

Here are some of the won­der­ful coin quilts that have already been fin­ished. Aren’t these ladies amaz­ingly cre­ative, and on the ball to boot?

1. coin top, 2. DSC_6007, 3. Elena’s Quilt, 4. Quilt #4 — Stacked Coins, front

The rest of the 2009 Coin Quilt Piece-Along Flickr pool can be found here.

I am to the sand­wich­ing and quilt­ing stage on my coin quilt. I have to clean a spot on the floor long enough to get every­thing pinned together. See why it takes me so long? It’s like some­one some­where is bound and deter­mined to make me do house­work, no mat­ter how much I avoid it. These sites have been the inspi­ra­tion for my lit­tle quilt.

• Here is a great down­load­able Coin Quilt tuto­r­ial by Cluck­Cluck­Sew.
• A Stacked Coins Baby Quilt tuto­r­ial is avail­able at The Moda Bake Shop, pro­vided by Crazy­MomQuilts.
• Great Coin Quilt inspi­ra­tion at Hand­made by Alissa.
• Another Coin Quilt tuto­r­ial via Home School Blog­ger.
• MaryQuilts.com has a few Chi­nese Coin Quilt tuto­ri­als in the right side­bar, though there are many many more beau­ti­ful tuto­ri­als listed as well.
• More Chi­nese Coin Quilt instruc­tions from Field Trips in Fiber

If you feel the urge to par­tic­i­pate, please join us!

Once you get used to the new look, you may notice a new ban­ner in my side­bar for the Piece-Along Coin Quilt. Yes, I’ve joined another sew-along.

This one is being hosted by Juli­ette of Chick­pea Sewing Stu­dio and Karin of Orange Flower. Both are won­der­fully crafty ladies and two of the first crafty blogs I ever sub­scribed to. They have decided to do a quilt-along, piece-along, sew-along, what-have-you-along based around the Chi­nese Coins quilt pattern.

I’ve added a cou­ple extremely beau­ti­ful exam­ples in the post, but you can find many many more in the 2009 Coin Quilt Piece-Along Flickr Pool. The Moda Bake Shop has a great tuto­r­ial designed by the lovely Aman­da­jean of Crazy­MomQuilts and MaryQuilts has 3 tuto­ri­als, plus many other quilt pat­terns in her left sidebar.

So if you’re inter­ested please join us!