{"id":49108,"date":"2020-05-09T07:02:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T14:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=49108"},"modified":"2020-05-04T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:19:57","slug":"15-years-of-artquiltmaker-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/15-years-of-artquiltmaker-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Years of Artquiltmaker Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is my 15 year Blogiversary. 15 YEARS!!!I’d love to have a party, but since we are sheltering in place, it will have to be virtual.<\/p>\n

5 years ago I wrote my 10 year anniversary post<\/a> and can’t believe another 5 years have elapsed. I guess I blinked.<\/p>\n

Have you been with me the whole time?<\/p>\n

I started Artquiltmaker Blog because I had hit a big milestone and I wanted to start something new and send my life in a new direction and practice writing. My first post<\/a> was not stellar. I remember being distinctly uncomfortable and not knowing what to write. I got better though and even later in May 2005, I was posting real content. Short, not every day, but real content. Now I just blather on at ease and start to get twitchy if I don’t write regularly.<\/p>\n

At the end of 2008 I moved the blog over to WordPress.<\/p>\n

In 2008 and 2009, I started trying to post every day. It took some time to work up to that schedule. I still try to post every day and mostly succeed, though sometimes I forget, get busy or have nothing to talk about.<\/p>\n

This forum has really helped me to move forward in my work. Writing this blog has forced me to make lists of projects and stick to working on those projects. I have enjoyed seeing comments from people, getting to see the work of different quiltmakers via Instagram and Twitter and even meeting a few in person<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed looking through the photos to pick the ones I wanted to add to the gallery when I wrote my 10 year post. I decided to look through the last 5 years worth of photos and pick some of that work for you to review.<\/p>\n