Happy 4th of July

Wishing all Americans a happy and safe Independence Day!

Family, friends, food and fireworks...our plans for the day.

Lynn

Scrappidy-Do-Dah EQ7 Quilt Plans

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I have the Electric Quilt 7 design program on my computer and played with the Scrappidy-Do-Dah blocks in the program and came up with these simple designs.   Even though the blocks I made are scrappy I made the diagram in just a couple shades of blue.  I can see the design and not spend hours coloring the different vales of the blues.

The border designs are not too complicated but don’t want to just end the quilt at the edge of the blocks and also don’t want to introduce another design.

Until Later,
Lynn

Before and After Gerbera Daisy Photos

I took this photo of a Gerbera Daisy in my flower garden and as you can see it is a little out of focus.  I used my macro lens on the camera but either wiggled a little when I snapped the photo or it focused on just a few petals and not the rest of them.

I fiddled around with the photo in my Photoshop Elements 7 program and ended up with a sharper focused flower.  It did change the color a little and changed the texture of the center of the flower too but it is an interesting photo.  I used the Accented Edges filter to achieve this result.  I didn’t spend a lot of time fine tuning it so might have been able to make it better with more work.

Photoshop Elements is a stepped down version of the expensive Photoshop program.  I can’t justify buying the larger program but Elements has lots and lots of settings, filters, etc. that I haven’t even learned how to do and it is just enough of a challenge for me.

Lynn

More Summer Flowers

Still no sewing going on here so another look at some flowers from my flower beds.
Until Later
Lynn