{"id":1538,"date":"2009-04-11T06:21:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T13:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2016-03-16T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T05:03:37","slug":"vands-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/vands-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Various and Sundry Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you tell I am just desperate to catch up on everything? All of my posts lately are entitled “Various and Sundry.” I hope it gives you an idea from the title what kind of post it will be.<\/p>\n

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  1. I am doing a project (another one? you say) called 31 Days to Building a Better Blog. You can find it and play along at ProBlogger<\/a>. I am already 3 days behind, so we’ll see how it goes. When I first saw the ad for this project, I was arrogant enough to think I didn’t need such a thing. Immediately after that thought, I signed up, because thinking I couldn’t improve Artquiltmaker blog is a sure sign I need help. If I can make a few improvements, I’ll be happy. If I learn, I’ll be happier.<\/li>\n
  2. Reviews and comments about Handmade Nation<\/a> are all over the blogosphere. I would like to see it as it sounds interesting. I haven’t, however,\u00a0 seen it playing anywhere nearby. I’ll keep looking.<\/li>\n
  3. Be*Mused had a lovely array of colors<\/a> up on her blog the other day. She and I are thinking along the same color lines. Here color palette is the look I am going for with the fabrics that I bought at Always Quilting<\/a>. I want to add something a bit dark just to take the edge off the bubblegum-i-ness. Not sure what, but I’ll have to look around.<\/li>\n
  4. I started listening to another episode of the CraftSanity podcast today. It turned out to be a joint podcast with Jennifer and Sister Diane of Craftypod. Essentially the two podcasters interviewed each other to give tips and pointers on starting your own podcast. Listen to CraftSanity podcast #14<\/a> and Craftypod podcast #24<\/a> to hear the different takes on the same discussion\/interview. I love this kind of collaboration facilitated by the web.<\/li>\n
  5. I am cutting 6.5″ squares of blue fabric (like the Thoughts on Dots<\/a> project) for a project and I have lost about 3\/4s of the ones I have cut so far somewhere in my workroom. They will turn up, but it made me realize that I need to have some way of organizing projects that are in the germination stage. There are a number of projects for which I need to gather fabrics while I prepare to sew. I want a system where I can put fabrics and supplies in one place until I am ready for them to be front and center. I am envisioning a system like Jan at Be*Mused put up<\/a>. She used IKEA’s Expedit shelves. I am not sure these shelves would work for me. I also need a bed in my workroom for guests, so I think my ideal would be the IKEA Billy system with a bed somehow integrated into it. In the meantime, I may just get some POTs and use those.<\/li>\n
  6. Linda Hughes of\u00a0 From A Vineyard Garden<\/em><\/a> blog has posted a list<\/a>, paraphrased from the New Creative Artist <\/a>book by Nita Leland about creativity. It is a good and interesting list and that book might be worth checking out.<\/li>\n
  7. Finally, Retro Mama made a pattern f or fabric eggs<\/a> and put it up on her blog. I love these eggs and want to make some to decorate for Easter\/the Spring. It won’t work for this Easter, but I could make them for next year. We will see. There are just so many wonderful blogs out there!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Can you tell I am just desperate to catch up on everything? All of my posts lately are entitled “Various and Sundry.” I hope it gives you an idea from the title what kind of post it will be. I am doing a project (another one? you say) called 31 Days to Building a Better … Continue reading “Various and Sundry Saturday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[310,318,86,332,118],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-color","tag-housekeeping","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-projects","tag-various-sundry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}