Videography Vanquished

 

Considering that I own a plethora of cameras, I should be ashamed at the lack of photos documenting my week! I spent all day Sunday filming how to place and stitch a whole cloth quilt using Qmatic. It took me all of Monday to edit my feature-length movie into 2 halves, each approximately one hour long. My computer suddenly decided that its memory was full and could not cope with saving all that work so we had “words”, deleted some junk, reduced the quality and eventually stored the files. I decided to invest in another external hard drive so I ordered one meant to be “like new” from Amazon - except it wasn’t since it was all scratched so I returned it. 

An attachment for one of my cameras arrived from Ebay and was not at all as described so that also needs to go back which means I will have to drive into Banchory again, park my car and queue for ages in the back of the Co-Op where the Post Office is hidden these days. 

I watched Bake Off the other day and was amazed by Prue’s crazy-patch duster coat. I have found a quilt on Ebay that is not exactly crazy-patch but could be worked on. However, it is from the USA - do I or do I not want to take a chance?!

I finally got around to making a video demonstrating how a Quilter can use the L890 overlocker / Coverstitch machine to bind a quilt using a binding attachment. I thought I had everything all set up nicely but my practice pieces just would not co-operate. I was frustrated that I had “wasted” a day but in fact it was all useful research, working out exactly how wide to cut the strips and choosing the right fabric. The next day I started again and everything worked out fine. My finished Youtube video is 15 minutes long - it does not have background music, or a beautifully coiffed and manicured presenter;)

Since I am off to Norwich for Nella’s birthday in the coming week, I spent some time on admin which was dull but necessary. Nessie got her hair cut, I bought plenty of cat food and I gathered together the stuff that Nella requested I should take for her. I will try to make an effort to actually USE my cameras when I am away!