FYI – My Berkshire Quilt Festival lecture will be 11-12ish (I have a way too big pile of quilts stacked up in my sewing room at the moment!)

Wow. A productive few days. Yesterday I spent a lot of time stacking up quilts and thinking about the talk I’m giving on Sunday at the Berkshire Quilt Festival. Yes that’s right folks! Come to the Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield MA on Sunday morning and hear yours truly talking about quilting and my own quilts. Anyway, yesterday stacking and thinking.

In between stuff, some sewing. I figured I had practiced that little tiny stippling enough to make it count so ta-da! I finished one of my grant quilts that was waiting to be quilted. Yes that’s right. You can see a larger view by clicking above or click here for a closer view.

Progress report:

Green binding is made and pressed. That can only mean one thing – the pink and green quilt is quilted! yeah!

Realized tonight that I needed a couple more things to get the Journal Quilts where they’re going and that’s what I am doing now just before going to bed. Can’t believe it’s October 1st already. Where did September go?

A rainy weekend. Particularly rainy today, with flash flood warnings all over the place.

A good day to stay in really with a good book and some hot coffee. Except that my friend Pat has invited me to go hear Maya Angelou speak at a local community college. I am psyched. More later.

First more coffee, since I didn’t get enough with my breakfast.

I’m here to tell you that I spent 2 quality hours with Moveable Type on Saturday. oh wait, first a

DISCLAIMER:
I do not know anything about scripting languages or writing scripts.
I am neither a geek nor a web designer, nor have I played one on TV.

Ok, where was I? Oh yeah. I started at the beginning and followed along, step by step. When it told me to run some CGI something to see if everything was there and ready for the next step I did. When it reported back that all was well, I moved on. Finally, the big thing – log in. I knew I was in trouble because there was no graphic showing on the log in screen, but I tried anyway. I even knew what the problem was, but how to fix? Rewind, rewind a ways through the instructions and find the one thing (so far anyway) that I missed and BANG – there it was the user interface. AND, it worked. Sort of. I have, safely out of public view, one of the butt ugliest MT homepages ever seen. But it’s there and it works. So I went out and bought a book on CSS and well honey, it’s back to the days of writing those first html things. eeeks.

What have I learned so far? Just put down the table code and walk away. Hey, I just got the book yesterday!

As a break, I started writing a presentation in Keynote tonight.