Tolentreasures

First let me say after over one year of blogging and over 200 blog posts, I NEVER saw that little blue sentence that says "Add Another Image" on the picture loader window. I have been loading pictures one at a time instead of the five at a time that Blogger allows! The things you learn. And how easy is that? Mom bought me this pattern for Christmas. I have been saying that I would like to tackle a wool quilt and I have several yards of thin black wool that I bought for the base of quilt. This is my challenge item for this year. My Mother makes these great pillowcases. The night before her surgery, I helped her make the last four sets of them. Very easy and fun to make and so much nicer than any purchased pillowcases. As a sidenote : If I had a maid, or if I didn't have a job, I think that I would have clean pressed sheets and pillowcases every day. Well let's just go with a maid. I wouldn't do it myself everyday! And this table runner was quite the ...

It has been a long time since I was this happy for a work week to be over. I have had computer issues all week. I had to install an ink jet printer and software to make it have postscript capabilities. Confusing? Yes! I have used a laser printer for years and it will already print dots for halftones necessary in screenprinting and the latest (well in truth it has probably been out more years than I care to think about) trend now is to use ink jet printers. Well, the entire week where the computer and printer were concerned was a tribute to Murphy's Law in action. Of course to repeat the entire process would be a complete yawner, as if the first two sentences didn't lose you. Defensive as I am, I feel that there were other forces of discrimination at work here, that being the bulk of graphic designer /artist's/computer people in in the screenprinting industry are 1.) men 2.) young men 3.) not very often women 4.) not very often "older" women 5.) not very ...