Late Summer Reset

Taking photos of sewing machines is not as easy as you might imagine. Quilt Direct had a media and marketing apprentice for a while and she did most of the social media posts but I am now responsible for the “on the fly” studio posts. I had to take pictures of the new Bernina 7 Series Pro machines but they looked grey or had glare because I was not getting the lighting right. There is a bit of a weird phenomenon where videos of the machines can be flickery so I had to turn off their LED lights. I am getting there and will use additional soft box lights if necessary. I had a bit of a crash course in posting on Instagram from Nella who is a YOUNG person. I have been posting on IG for ages as myself without much preparation but for the Quilt Direct posts I need to post a mixture of Stories, Posts and Reels, without being tempted to add weird special effects. I was thrilled when I learned how to add a hyperlink ( a simple, short phrase that redirects you to a website.)

All of this meant that I only did a superficial tidy up at work but at least I can get into the walk-in cupboard now. I also managed to get a customer quilt done in between practising my photography. It was a Pam and Nicky Lintott jelly roll quilt with an unusual large hexagon block. As requested by the customer, I did an all-over swallows and loops design.

Nella left on Friday so the house was quiet after 2 weeks of visitors. Since I had been to Birmingham, Glasgow and was hosting I had not stuck to my usual routine of chores. Over the weekend I have been tidying, weeding and catching up with laundry. I seem to invent trivial chores for myself like reorganising the camera gear in my sideboard and painting a dresser top that I found to be a herb and houseleek display shelf beside the shed. I also made a long pair of dungarees into shorts. No wonder I never do any patchwork these days! Mind you, I did skive off on Saturday to catch up with Mel and watch the annual duck race.