Baby Blanket #2

This is the second of the baby blankets I'm crocheting.

Actually, my blankets tend to keep growing, so this may be more of a toddler blanket....

There's a third blanket that's about 2/3 of the way finished.  Here's a link to baby blanket #1, with an explanation of where these blankets are headed.



Turkish Texture

This is a photograph of the fishing boat, Yarik Kaya, that we "rescued" when we were in Turkey on our sailboat, Tropic Moon.  

Image Cropped

We were motoring down a long bay and we saw a couple fishermen in a small boat. They were waving something and trying to get our attention, so we motored over to see what was wrong. 

Used "Stay" texture layer, Overlay, 75%

Their engine had died so we played out a rope to them and took them in tow. They wanted to go to an island on the opposite side of the bay so we towed them for 3-4 miles. It would have been a long ways for them to row! 

Used Hue/Saturation to adjust the colors

When they thanked us, they gave us a fish that they had caught, and we put it in a bucket in the cockpit. That afternoon when we reached Datcha, Ed cleaned the fish and I cooked it for dinner.  Ed made it into two fillets and we each had about a pound of fish to eat!  Since we didn't have refrigeration on the boat, it was eat it, or toss it overboard.... 

The filter, Poster Edges (2-1-2) gave me this final textured image

We didn't know what the fish was until we started eating it, and then found that it was a fresh tuna.  Really delicious!

Storyboards



Husband, Ed; My painting called "Cezanne's Farm;" The ever-adorable Casey Cockatiel;
Bookcase; Out the kitchen window; Rocker

A recent project in our Beyond Layers II class was creating storyboards with some of our photographs.  Kim Klassen provided templates for us to use.  The photos in the first storyboard represented my day on May 1st. 

Flossie seeking her inner frog; From a READ Poster; Flossie at her computer;
Herbie, Flossie & Kermit hitting the port; Buddy in his BMW, Herbie riding his bike at Cezanne's Farm

I really enjoyed the project so I decided to do a second storyboard.  I had lots of photos of my frogs in my files.  One little note - Herbie (bottom right) is riding his bike in my painting that's in the top storyboard, top center.  Also, in the port drinking photo, that's one of my quilts in the background.  There's another of my quilts behind Flossie (at her computer), but this one is showing the back of the quilt, rather than the front, which was too busy to use as a background for this photo. 

I use Photoshop for developing my images.  In Beyond Layers, we worked on our storyboards in Photoshop.  This class combines projects using both photography and Photoshop - two of my loves!