Something New

I am starting something new -

These fabrics are from a Joanns' mini-jelly roll I was given as a gift last year, and as my list of family gift quilts-to-make is beginning to grow again, I thought I'd put it to use.

They wouldn't necessarily be colours I'd choose for myself but I think the soft teal shades help to lift the browns, and there are a couple of the orange prints that I like a lot.

Anyway, I decided to cut into them to test drive some block measurements I drafted recently for a very simple quilt.

Nothing original about this, I just did some maths.  Fingers crossed it'll all come together as it should and become a gift for the very special person I have in mind for it.

More soon, I hope.

Attention MAC quilters

If you're a MAC user and have wistfully read and re-read the system requirements for EQ7 and mourned its incompatibility with MAC then you need Jackie's great tutorials for MAC Numbers.

Check out her blog and you tube posts here:

• Lesson 1
• Lesson 2
• Lesson 3

I am so delighted to find these tutorials and Jackie's videos are nicely paced and very well explained, so if you fancy a go click the links above.

See what you will be able to do after just the first couple of lessons -

Can't wait to play around a bit more!

I also think those of you working with Microsoft Excel could probably do something very similar if you were able to work out the Excel equivalent functions that Jackie points to in Numbers.  Might be worth a peek!