If you’ve never considered blogging before I’d like to suggest trying it! Even if you’re the only person who ever looks back and reads the posts – it will be worth it. I looked back through some of my old posts hoping to find some words of inspiration to encourage someone else to take that first step or, if you’ve blogged in the past, to think about trying it again.
This was my very first post. I started blogging to have a place to not only journal but, share what’s keeping me busy these days with people who have the same interests in common. There’s also this post about why quilters share photos of their work, including projects that didn’t go as planned. We often share details about our lives beyond quilting and it’s those details that often connect with quilters worldwide on a more personal level. Whether you’ve read either of those two posts or not, I hope you will now. And, that something there may inspire you to consider blogging too.
Since I don’t have any new quilt finishes to post this week, I thought I’d play around and see if I could figure out how to share the daily video my Cloud back-up sends me every morning.
I figured it out! Yay! I only have the Word Press upgrade to avoid ads but not the higher level to posts videos. I did find a way around it though.. I saved it to YouTube and then embedded the link here. Sure makes me sound a lot smarter than I am. (◔_◔) And yes, if you’re wondering, I did look up how to add a rolling eyes emoji.
If I were really all that smart, I’d find a simple way to locate all them photos of quilts that aren’t on my Finished Quilts page and add them. But, if you read that first post I linked to above, you’ll know that it’s simply impossible for me to make time.
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Yesterday, I worked on a quilting a top I finished piecing this week. It was from fabrics I had purchased several years ago for a specific pattern and then promptly put it all away and never looked back.
I faced some issues when I was about 3/4 done quilting it. I had no choice but to spend several hours taking it off the frame, fixing the problem and then reloading it and hoping like heck I’d be able line up the quilting design.
I was beyond frustrated but, maybe even more disappointed about not being able to finish it by the weekend for my blog. It was the commitment to blogging once a week that motivated me to stay up late and keep at it until I either fixed the problems or figure out a way to rescue it so it wouldn’t be a complete loss. No small feat considering how much I wanted to just trash the whole thing and forget about it. Although it won’t be done before I leave for the family reunion on Saturday, it only needs the binding now. The reason it’s not in the trash is because of this blog!
Time to Quilt 