computer troubles.

John, I sympathize with your computer woes, but I'm delighted to hear that you had the extended warranty (of course, the original warranty would have worked in this case, too ) and that everything is once again operational.

Is the new quilt all straight lines, or are there any curves included? Mondrian's work is so graphic -- your quilt will be quite the eye-catcher! :)

great computer generated toy called Mondrian Machine.

It lets you generate the appearance of a Mondrian Styled painting that you create based on the theories of Mondrian as to design. But it is not a copy of one of his, it is yours and you can change or modify or start over or do multiple ones. Then you print it out and use it however you want. It is a great way to waste time if you are looking for something to exercise your artistic bent. The one I am doing is quite colorful with a large square of blue and a lot of white spaces interspersed with yellow and red ones. All delineated by black lines about 1-1/2" thick. Quite a change from the traditional quilt of stars and points and blocks, with pretty print fabrics. The colors are all solids. I am going to quilt each color block with a differently spaced pattern of stitches that will be proportionate to the size of the block. Using colored thread to match the block color. Then it will have a black border to finish it off. If I can keep from crashing my computer, I will probably have the top finished by friday for sure. Then it will take a bit to quilt the sandwich together as there will be a number of thread changes to do. Sometime next week it should be finished and I will post a picture. If the computer stays together.

John

Mine computer does that when it automatically checks for new messages. It's a pain in the patoot. You can adjust your puter to check for new messages at a longer interval. I switched from 1 minute to 5 minutes. But it will still catch me in the middle of reading something and off we go again- start re-reading the message from the top.

Well, thank you, Leslie. That sounds like a setting I could adjust (without causing any excitement such as re-routing the take-off plans over at the airport.) Polly

That was fun, John! Your quilt sounds great -- but have you considered using a multicolored/variegated thread in primary colors for your quilting? That would eliminated the need to change colors all the time, assuming that sort of thread is something you would like.

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I concidered many different options. What I came up with is that I want to see the quilting , but I don't want to see the thread that makes the quilting. This is so that it remains true to the concept of bold blocks of primarty colors. I thought that if you saw the color of the thread against the background of color it would detract from the visual ideal of the quilt. I know that stitching is often the main component of a quilt, but in this case I would even concider not quilting the color blocks, except they are too large to leave unquilted. That is a fun site to work out your patterns of blocks with.

John

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I thought people might like that website. I consciously thought about the threads for this quilt. What I am looking for is the quilting to show on the quilt,and not the stitching that makes the quilting. That is why I decided to use thread the color of the background. The whole idea of Mondrians' paintings is to have bold solid color splashes. The only way I could think of, without leaving the large panels unquilted, was to use the same color thread on each panel. That way the puffiness of the quilting would be mostly what shows. If I left the large panels unquilted I am sure there would be trouble within due to the 30" size of some of them. I realize that in a lot of minds the stitching is as important a design element, as the choice of fabric. In this case I think that I have adhered to that principle by lessening the stiching's presence and thereby giving it the prominence of not being seen. That is a rather convoluted way of looking at it, but it justifies my choice in this matter. The top is

3/4 done and should be finished tomorrow. When you are dealing with such large pieces of fabric, it does move along.

John

John,

The Mondrian Paintings remind me a lot of Frank Lloyd Wright, whos' work I love.

I will be nice to see the finished quilt.

Piece,

Marsha

Ok, I couldn't stop when I was this close. I finished the top, tonight. There wasn't much left to do. Now I am going to bed.

Say good night Gracie. Good night, Gracie.

John

Okay, John, I do understand what you're trying to do, and I agree that matching thread is really the only way to go about it. :) Changing threads won't be that awful, though, since you're working with large pieces of fabric. I can't wait to see it!

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:22:38 -0600, John wrote (in article ):

I can sympathize. My iMac is with the local dealer waiting for a new logic board. It's not that old either, but I'm assured all my "stuff" is still there.

Maureen

I have a critical data Lacie peripheral hard drive, for back ups, so all of my can't lose data and pictures and ipod tunes are saved. But what I lost is my entire address book and bookmarks. I guess I should have backed those up but I didn't think about it. The address book I can duplicate from my wife's address book, mostly, but the bookmarks are history. Live and learn. 4 month old computer. Sigh!

John

John

John, since you have an external hard drive and are not yet using Leopard, may I make a suggestion? Download and install an app called SuperDuper

there's a free version, though I prefer the paid version -- it's not expensive. With that, you can clone a complete, *bootable* backup of your entire drive, which will enable you to start up from the clone in case of emergency. I think it's worth its weight in gold and try to back up on a very regular basis. The first backup will take some time, but subsequent, incremental ones (assuming you purchase the complete version instead of using the freebie) take only minutes. The makers of SuperDuper are hoping to make it fully Leopard-compatible very soon, but it's not there yet, unfortunately. That's one of the several reasons I'm not buying Leopard yet.

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:06:57 -0600, John wrote (in article ):

Have you looked into syncing with .Mac. It will keep all your bookmarks and addresses for you. Easy enough to let iSync put them all back if you loose them. I know because for some odd reason, early this year everything in my address book disappeared. (I've no idea what I did, but I'm glad I got them back)

Maureen