I am daily becoming more and more computer savvy. Today, I took some pictures of the new project that my niece and I are working on and came to the computer to download them. I found the USB cord, even found a slot in which to plug it. (Note: I must get one of those USB hubs as I had to unplug something -- who knows what I disconnected? -- in order to plug in the camera.)
But nothing happened. When I went to "Programs" to open the Kodak Share manually, it wasn't there. Where had Kodak gone? And then I remembered, last week, one of those MS do-it-all programs kept asking me if I wanted it to clean up my desk and hide all of the unused shortcut icons. Well, I tried that once and it hid things I really wanted to see. So, I said "no." I could do that myself.
Then, I remembered that I thought that I had outsmarted that program and had actually gone to the Control Panel and uninstalled some old programs that I no longer use and will never use. And because I had begun to use Picasa for working with pictures, I actually had deleted the Kodak program because it kept stealing pictures that I wanted to use with other programs. My thought was that if I deleted it, it would no longer keep getting in the way. I forgot that deleting it would also make me unable to download pictures from the camera.
So, today ... no pictures. Just writing. But wait ... In the middle of the night, I remembered something... and thus, there is a picture and you can see the roses on the sweatshirt, a deconstructed and then reconstructed sweat shirt.
But nothing happened. When I went to "Programs" to open the Kodak Share manually, it wasn't there. Where had Kodak gone? And then I remembered, last week, one of those MS do-it-all programs kept asking me if I wanted it to clean up my desk and hide all of the unused shortcut icons. Well, I tried that once and it hid things I really wanted to see. So, I said "no." I could do that myself.
Then, I remembered that I thought that I had outsmarted that program and had actually gone to the Control Panel and uninstalled some old programs that I no longer use and will never use. And because I had begun to use Picasa for working with pictures, I actually had deleted the Kodak program because it kept stealing pictures that I wanted to use with other programs. My thought was that if I deleted it, it would no longer keep getting in the way. I forgot that deleting it would also make me unable to download pictures from the camera.
So, today ... no pictures. Just writing. But wait ... In the middle of the night, I remembered something... and thus, there is a picture and you can see the roses on the sweatshirt, a deconstructed and then reconstructed sweat shirt.
My niece had worn this shirt last year and wanted to practice on it before she worked on the brand new pigment dyed sweatshirt she had bought with which to make a short jacket. I had some fabric with rose and peach and cream six inch roses and dark green leaves. And it matched the rose of her sweatshirt perfectly.
After cutting off all of the ribbed pieces collar, cuffs, waistband, and slicing the shirt up the front, we attached dark green piping to the jacket front and then put the facings on the outside. And the facings were large panels of the rose and cream roses. Linda took embroidery scissors and carefully cut around the roses and leaves from the shoulder down to the hem so that the roses stand out against the color of the shirt.
You probably cannot see that I am now in the process of satin stitching around all of the roses and adding bits of other stitching around petals as it suits my whims. I have used one spool of thread and am not even finished with the first side. Before we added the piping, we had stitched on wide satin ribbons to use as a closing for the front. They will tie above the waist and the tails will then hang.
Right now, we plan to stitch roses on the back and on the sleeves as well and bind the sleeves, the neck, and the bottom with wide dark green binding. Although I do have other ribbons and decorative trims in various shades of fuschia and magenta and hot pink, I think we may leave this with just the magenta satin stitching and the green piping and binding with perhaps the addition of a scattering of a few green and pink Swarovsky crystals.
When you can see the pictures in a day or two. I do hope that you think it is as lovely as I do. (But then, I don't finish things that I don't like. Do you?)
After cutting off all of the ribbed pieces collar, cuffs, waistband, and slicing the shirt up the front, we attached dark green piping to the jacket front and then put the facings on the outside. And the facings were large panels of the rose and cream roses. Linda took embroidery scissors and carefully cut around the roses and leaves from the shoulder down to the hem so that the roses stand out against the color of the shirt.
You probably cannot see that I am now in the process of satin stitching around all of the roses and adding bits of other stitching around petals as it suits my whims. I have used one spool of thread and am not even finished with the first side. Before we added the piping, we had stitched on wide satin ribbons to use as a closing for the front. They will tie above the waist and the tails will then hang.
Right now, we plan to stitch roses on the back and on the sleeves as well and bind the sleeves, the neck, and the bottom with wide dark green binding. Although I do have other ribbons and decorative trims in various shades of fuschia and magenta and hot pink, I think we may leave this with just the magenta satin stitching and the green piping and binding with perhaps the addition of a scattering of a few green and pink Swarovsky crystals.
When you can see the pictures in a day or two. I do hope that you think it is as lovely as I do. (But then, I don't finish things that I don't like. Do you?)
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