Starting to Crazy Quilt

I've launched my new hobby. While I was waiting to recieve the small silk package from Delectable Mountain Cloth, I started working on a practice Crazy Quilt. I didn't want to ruin my silks with ignorance. I need practice with piecing, embroidery, layout and just figuring out how the whole crazy quilt thing works. I'm using  Allie Aller's Crazy Quilting for direction. This is just a part of my block so far. I'm calling it my crazy quilting sampler:

My sewing machine has been acting up whenever I try to do something fancy so off to the shop it went for maintenance. Now I'm in withdrawals and having to do all my stitching by hand. Very time consuming!

Some pictures of the beautiful silks from Delectable Mountain Cloth. They are gorgeous!

Can't wait to get started with these.

Fun With Hipstamatic

 I've been having some serious fun with the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone. I never quite know what the final result will look. Often I'm holding the phone at weird angles and trying to hit the photo button without moving the phone too much. The app comes with different lenses, film and flashes. You can shake the phone to come up with random combinations. I'm not sure if everyone has this much fun with the app or I'm just easily amused.

Almond Blossoms on the tree and on the ground.

California Poppies.

 Cherry blossoms from underneath and cut flowers from my garden.

 It looks like some strange jungle scene but it's really just some random tree near my home.