More swapping!

Following the demise of our Night Owls quilting group, some members decided to carry on regardless, but on an informal basis only. So, we had out first meeting at the beginning of January, our chinese meal out, and we're now planning on meeting once a month! It's good to think that there's life after death, so to speak!

In order to keep everyone focussed, we're having a postcard swap which involves making one postcard a month to be sent round to the next name on the list. I received my postcard from Janice a couple of weeks ago and it is really beautiful. Hand embroidered pansies on a painted fabric background.

I had no idea what to do for my postcard to send to Kath, until the other night, when not being able to sleep, I looked out of the window and saw a wonderful full moon glinting through the branches of my tree. A song came into my head as I stood and looked, but try as I might I couldn't remember how the line went. Thanks to Google, not only did I discover that Don Mclean has his own website (how did I not know that?), but there was a Youtube clip of him singing that very song. Deep sigh here on account of lost youth etc!!!

My idea was to put a line from the song onto the fabric but not being a fan of the text tool in PSP7, I thought I might use free machine embroidery. Not a success as the text was far too intrusive. Fortunately, I also have PSPX and the text tool is much easier to use and the help is better.

So I cut my fabric  and stuck it onto a piece of ordinary printer paper, put it into the tray, hit the print button and crossed my fingers! Bingo! It did not get screwed up, or smudged and looked just as I wanted it to. Here it is, ready to go off to Kath today! Sideways on sadly, but I'm sure you get the picture!