Playing some more with abstract designs

While we are waiting (yes still waiting) for the septic work to begin I decided to play with the abstract design stuff a bit more. This is what I have come up with.

A grayscale overlay of pixels and paper design. I like the lost and found edges.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taking the purple pixels and breaking it up and adding some lines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breaking the design up further. Has the looking though a window effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using the zigzag filter. Rain running down a window?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adding accented edges.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using the stamping filter and turning to grayscale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well more designs to consider. What do you think?

Linking to Nina-Marie a day early since we are traveling to see our new house tomorrow and visit my dad for father’s day. Will take lots of photos to see what kind of progress they have made on our house.

Thanks for reading.

Chris

What do you do when someone wants to copy your design?

Someone saw my “Midwinter Visitor” quilt on Ellen Lindner’s Pinterest page and sent her the following note:

I came across your website via Pinterest. I am
enthralled with a quilt called Midwinter Visitor.  I was
wondering if you have her email address or would forward this to her. I would like to hook a rug out of wool based on her picture.
It is astounding and I think it would be a wonderful challenge to hook this.
Ellen is the teacher I had when I made this original quilt.





My husband doesn’t understand what the big deal is and I should just let her copy it.

Have you run into this issue? What did you do? What do you suggest that I do?


This reminds me of a story about my 64 ford galaxy. I had this car in 1978 in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Someone came to the door of the house I was renting and asked to buy the hubcaps from the car. I said no and the next day they were gone—stolen.  I hadn’t even gotten their name…how dumb. How dumb to not see it coming? Well actually I thought about taking the hubcaps off, but then I figured they would slit my tires. I guess at that point I had already learned to mistrust people. I called the police, but they could do nothing. Does make you wonder how many people out there already stole the design without asking for permission.
Thanks for reading.
Chris

New house

I am short on what kinds of quilty things to blog about since everything is packed. We are still dealing with septic stuff. It is very hard getting quotes to do the work. My husband thinks they are all in bed together…the towns that get all the fees, the engineers that also inspect and pass or fail systems so they get jobs, and the contractors that are friends with the engineers. We got an estimate from someone that was $3000 less than another estimate from one of his friends and was told by our engineer that that was unethical. So to me it seems that there is price fixing going on and he did not like the contractor that did not play with the rest of them. And we can’t do anything about this at all.

We got some pictures of our new house sent to us from the designer. These were taken last week and hopefully they got the roof shingles on before all this rain started. The house will have medium  gray siding, gray and brown stone, and dark blue front door and shutters.

Sometimes I wonder if we are ever going to get out of our current house….

Thanks for reading.

Chris