Finished at Last and Off in the Mail

I have finished my mini quilt and will be sending it to SAQA on Friday. I am still recuperating from being ill but I am much better than I was a few days ago; at least I can eat and stay up a little more. I worked on the quilt a little bit each day and I am glad I got it finished. Now that I feel a little better I am going to start another quilt. I haven't quite decided what I will do. I am leaning toward making a quilt with an Ocean scene. I also want to make a quilt featuring the Moon. I would like to work on both of them at the same time and I maybe able to if I can keep the materials to make each separated.
The last time I wrote I said I would post more picture of the quilt I just finished with a little more explanation of each of the steps I did to make this quilt.  I am using a 3 mega pixel camera for these photos. I have a new Sanyo 10 mega pixel camera that my nephew gave me but I haven't learned  how to use it yet. I am going through the manual  to try and figure it out.  Wow for me I think this might take awhile. So in the meantime for this blog I am going to keep using my old 3M camera.
    I was able to take pictures with the new camera and in order to post them I need to put in a different reader on my computer so I can get the photos uploaded  showing the first steps I did in making the quilt.
    In the meantime I took photos today of the finished quilt so I could post them right now. The main reason in posting the earlier pictures of the quilt is to keep a record of how I made the quilt.
   After I finish posting I want to make my friend a carob cake for her birthday. She is not allergic to chocolate but when I gave her a piece of a carob cake I had made she really liked the carob. I have ask two of my friends to try carob and they both liked it as well as chocolate. I add Pero, which is a grain-based coffee substitute, and cinnamon to my cake batter when I make a carob cake and the combination of flavors is very good. Carob is also more nutritious than chocolate.
I like to eat new things and right now I am just starting to eat Seitan, a meat substitute that is high in protein and carob. I am eating totally vegan to try to help maintain my health better. It's really challenging to do art when I keep getting sick. I have many things wrong with me physically, but doing my art keeps me alive, so I will do whatever is necessary so that I can keep creating.
   Well back to the photos. I am going to show the steps I used  as I was making the quilt.I will post pictures of the finished quilt
    Maybe I will post  my Carob cake recipe tomorrow . Maybe some of you like carob or would like to try carob. I use toasted carob for my cakes . I think it is best for making cakes and other desserts. I also like it for making Mole.

Dream Landscape

I was looking through some of my posts and saw this little quilt siting in my drafts so I decided I would put this up tonight. This is a pictures of a quilt I made for a friend. For this quilt I used quite a few scrapes of fabric. I also did extensive free motion stitching on the surface. The rock ledge on the left was made by placing batting underneath the fabric; then I did free motion stitching over the surface. Some of the plants were made separately, then applied to the surface of the quilt. The sky was made from my own hand dyed fabric. If anyone has questions, please feel free to write. I would love to hear from you.