Friday finishes and technical difficulties

#mmminimini

Measures 6 inches square and quilted following the back pattern

I've been trying to post some Friday finishes for awhile,

but I've been plagued by technical difficulties.

I can't seem to get my photos off my iPhone 6 and onto my blog.

Yes, I've tried posting using the Blogger app, 

and it takes forever (read never) to load.

Here are two minis I've posted on Instagram recently

@brendasuderman

Both measure 6 inches square or slightly less,

I made a liturgical stole recently for a friend who is a United Church of Canada minister.

I used a striped crossweave bit of yardage that I bought at a thrift shop.

I lined it with the same fabric

and inserted some lightweight wool batting between those stripes

to quilt in a cross set off by a background of pebbles.

The recipient likes it,

and was most impressed by the little unlined zipper bag I whipped up using the scraps.

Back to my technical problems. 

I can't seem to get my phone pix onto my blog using the Blogger app.

I can't get the most recent ones through my laptop either,

even when I try the phone pix option on add photos.

I end up emailing them to myself,

but now Picasa won't let me edit them

and so they are untouched and not resized.

I need some techie help, and Google is failing me here.

Other suggestions?

Linking up with other Friday finishers

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Crazy Mom Quilts

Little Friday finish

Triangles and feathers, 12.5 inches square

Machine pieced and quilted

I have just one little finish to share this week.

I have to confess I keep a bin of little triangles,

many of them from cutting the ends of my binding at 45 degrees for joining.

Some time ago I sewed a bunch of them onto a grey Kona

and this week I put them together in a little improv or free pieced quilt.

I used this wild paisley fabric for the back,

intending to follow the lines in quilting.

I did that, and it was a disaster from the front,

so I used feathers and pebbles instead.

I bound it with that same paisley.

I fussed over this little piece too much --

ripping out bad quilting stitches

and redoing the binding.

Seems like I'm a bit out of practice, 

but I'm back in the fmq space again.

I'm linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts

and Confessions of a Fabric Addict

And finished!

The great thing about little projects is that they're quick. One hour from the start and I've made four pieced and quilted coasters. It's something in a summer of not much sewing.