I cannot take a picture with one to save my freaking life! Even with a tripod they come out all fuzzy and out of focus. I have two 35mm slr cameras that I can take perfectly fine pictures with, but film and developing is almost impossible to find anymore, at least decently done at an affordable price.
I wanted to take a picture of a quilt for bragging points. >:( After a dozen tries I just want to fling the stupid camera through the window.
It is a baby quilt. Mama tried and tried and did not manage to catch until she was forty. So she has Opinions and Preferences.(G) She wants everything in brights, neons where possible. No trad baby pastels for this munchkin! I got a peek at some of what she already had, and after wrapping my eyeballs in damp teabags and letting them rest overnight, I set out to suss out a plan for the baby quilt that would not make my brain swell. Usually I tend to all over patterns, blocks that when put together make a whole. This time I went to independent blocks, a star sampler with the stars in every color of the rainbow. That way I managed to squeeze in the astonishing assortment of colors that she has come up with, plus a few, while avoiding some of the eyewatering combinations that can result from it. I had very pretty indigo with gold lines spaced through it from a thrift shop kicking around, somebody had bought it, cut it up into 12 inch squares, and then never done anything with it. I used that for backing, so the stars really pop. I threw a sort of mariners compass looking star in the middle, put feathered star variations in the corners, and just scattered every star pattern I know and a couple I looked up throughout the rest of it.
It came out a little larger than baby quilts usually are, around 66x57, but it will just last her a little longer that way.
NightMist