If you notice your traffic sources coming from unknown or odd sites, it's a good hint that someone has hacked your blog. The most common way is to substitute a link when you post one that is not https. Please don't include any active links unless they start with https - no matter how popular that quilter or photo is! Read my old post here.
Ok. A bit off track.
The beginning of the year abounds with QALs and we have a multitude of reasons to join: learning a skill, fulfilling a request, participating with a group of friends. Combining several challenges into one often leads to more creative results but the volume can easily overwhelm all our own ideas and plans. Photo-sharing apps actually seem to make it harder to find our own voice. At least they do for me.
Anyway, I'm thrilled so many of you are joining in the hourglass prompt. Janie already has some blocks finished and I do, too.
Despite my enthusiastic start on New Year's Day, these blocks are a mess. I had such high hopes for the original plan and feel like I cut up a lot of fabric that should have simply been a back. Time to creatively dig out. It needs a huge shovel.
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| Improv hourglass blocks in pink and aqua |
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| Moving the blocks to add sashing |
I moved the blocks apart and now am rooting through the stash for sashing possibilities.
This year I plan to write more frequently about whatever utility work I'm doing or have found in my reading. Hopefully this will encourage discussions. There are very few places for those of us who like to talk {or write} more than post photos so I need to put more effort into the reason for this blog.
Ann
7 comments:
Excellent post - thanks! I will try harder to share more process posts here as well as on my own blog (even if they are duplicates of each other). I left a comment on your blog with my thoughts on your current project - full of potential even if it didn't go quite the way you expected.
I like your idea of posting more. I tend to just show the finished products and not the process pictures.
Nice that you will show more of your process...
I have made a few little hourglass blocks within my RSC challenge
for January of green...hugs, Julierose
I like it too....I hate that so many bloggers use unsafe links...
I think you are right about this blog - we need to give it a bit of love. As for your blocks, I know you will figure out the right thing to do next.
I just love this dotty pink fabric. It's very frustrating when colors don't play quite as well as expected. They do look wonderful together, but like you said, might have to be separated by sashing. So many times the improv. solution becomes much more fun than the original thinking.:)
I start here, read a bit and try to comment. When I find something of special interest, I look up the person (you've made it easy, so thanks for that) and go to her blog. I assumed everyone does it my way--just how egocentric am I?--so I haven't been including much of my process. It now occurs to me that the downside is if someone is writing on her blog alone and not adding content here, I'm missing out.
So what is everyone else doing?
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