On my long, solo drives to and from the retreat, I did a lot of thinking about quilts and this blog. I decided I want to do this a little differently. Although part of my rational for writing a blog at all was to give me a bit of motivation to quilt and craft regularly just to have something to post. In many ways this has been successful, such as with my sampler quilt. However, I think I could use a little less motivation :)
Instead I want to do each day as a different theme, like a mini-magazine where each day is a column. This gives me a chance to post an update on each project or interest about once a week. Enough to keep me going, but not enough to be pressure. Sounds good to me if it sounds good to you.
I was thinking of this:
Monday - embroidery update. I tend to do a lot on the weekend and it will give me a chance to get good day time photos to post.
Tuesday - tid-bits. There's a lot to say - what's in my local magazine? play lists I listen to while quilting? mistakes and mis-haps? and on and on and on.
Wednesday - quilty works in progress. I saw this on several blogs. I do not know who to credit with the idea, but it is a good one.
Thursday - I am looking for an idea here. Anyone have a suggestion? I'd like to have regular interviews, but I do not know that many quilters.
Friday - product and book reviews.
Saturday and Sunday - off to create something to write about for the next week. No new posts here.
How does that sound? I am completely open to suggestions if I am missing something.
Now, more about my recent quilt retreat. I went to Dublin for Friday through Sunday evening with the Quilter's Guild of Ireland. I'll give you an update on my new projects on Wednesday, but I wanted to give you a little preview of the eye candy displayed this weekend. There was a quilt exhibition of mostly Irish quilters and their work was beautiful. Let's do a few quilts a week...starting with these three fantastic examples:
Mary Palmer entered a quilt called Woven Paths. Check out the quilting in the photo on the right!
Maureen Kennedy presented a quilt called Star of Hope which was spectacular.
And finally (for today at least) there was an unnamed quilt by Moya Geraghty of Patchwork Plus that was designed by Moya herself and Mary Palmer.
If that do not have you running to your sewing space right now, I do not know what will!
Please leave a comment with suggestions for the Thursday column if you have an idea to share. I could use a little help.
1 comment:
Quilt retreat sounds great. I think your blogging schedule sounds great!!
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