I’m humbled and thrilled at the response from quilters and reviewers to Color Mastery. I’m giving lectures and workshops, producing videos on color, and building relationships with quilters across the globe on my blog, email newsletter, Twitter, and Facebook.
I’m starting to work on my next book, talking to shop owners, industry experts, and fabric companies. [...]
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Beautiful Mondays
Most people dread Mondays. After all, they mean back to work, away from home and family. And rainy Mondays are the worst – as it’s doing here in Georgia today (the photo is from Amicalola Falls on a sunnier day).
I’m deciding on a different outlook. Mondays present a great day of opportunity. Monday is a [...]
Quilters Who Twitter
I have a new tool in my blog’s sidebar: a Twitter widget. I’m now on Twitter, which is a way of following what your friends are doing. It’s a micro-blog, of sorts. I’m still figuring it all out and exactly my strategy for using it. Looks like fun – a way to keep in touch [...]
Quilt Project Runway: Katie Pasquini Masopust
Katie Pasquini Masopust has a new book on creative quilt design called Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter: Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Dynamic Art Quilts. All about taking inspiration from photos and artwork and using them as a source for your quilts. Katie professes not be good at drawing realistically, so she takes her photographs and [...]
Cool Tools for Your Blog
I’ve got an article in the upcoming issue of Professional Quilter magazine called Developing Your Blog as a Marketing Tool. I love blogging. I get to write daily posts that let readers know a little about me and my work and connect with people not only in my own community, but across the [...]
I’m On Mary Lou’s Blogroll!
I feel like I’ve arrived. Mary Lou Weidman has added me to her blogroll. Wow. I’m so honored. Mary Lou is one of my all-time favorite quilters, not only for her courageous use of bold colors, but also for her gracious and optimistic attitude.
I have all of Mary Lou’s books, and [...]
Getting Credit for Your Quilts & Images
I’ve noticed on my blog statistics that I get the most traffic from images of my quilts on the major search engines. I know that people are downloading these, even if my art is copyrighted. It happens.
So how you do make sure you get credit for not just the image but for the [...]
Display Quilts & Creativity as a Widget on Your Blog
I learned from Beneath the Cover of Widgetbox and their slick tool called a Blidget: you turn your blog into a widget that displays an image from your blog along with your latest headlines. You can see the blidget in my sidebar, below the visitor’s map. What a great way to spread [...]
My Color Wheel Tutorial is a Featured Slidecast
The folks at Slideshare selected my Making a Quilter’s Color Wheel tutorial as a featured slidecast. Thanks Slideshare! Sweet.
Sweet Georgia Blogs
Blogs bring the world to my laptop, but I also enjoy the local ones. I’m a regular reader of Georgia on My Mind, which features a weekly Georgia Blog Carnival, and this week it’s hosted by Marketing Through the Clutter. If you’re a Georgia Peach (international readers – it’s our state fruit), or [...]
Blurry Blog Header Blues
After months of attempting to figure out what was wrong with my blurry blog header image, Judy Perez of Painted Threads pointed me in the right direction. I had searched for the answer online extensively, and no one had ever written about this, so I’m doing it now.
Supplying your own blog image header requires [...]
Thank You
Yesterday when I picked up my son from school, he asked me a question that came directly to the point: “Did you have a bad blog day?” It must have shown. Yes, in fact, I did have a terrible blog day. But it got much better, and the results are on [...]
Welcome E-Mail Subscribers!
Maybe it’s not quite that exciting. But – I’ve added the option of subscribing to my blog via e-mail! All you need to do is click the button in the sidebar at left. You’ll receive my latest postings, photos and all. You can even comment on the post, email it to friends, and rate it. [...]
Changed Subscription Button
I changed subscription options on my blog. I was offering subscriptions through Feedburner, but it wasn’t displaying my entire posts or photos in blog readers. So I replaced it with a Bloglines button so you can subscribe directly through Bloglines. I’ll be adding Yahoo buttons as well as others, so let me know what newsreaders [...]
Developing a Color Palette for Your Quilt
I’m moving the color palette lessons from my old blog home to here. I’ll be categorizing them so you can find them easily and refer back to them. Let me know if you have any trouble finding them. Ten lessons are available on topics from Assembling Your Color Kit to Understanding the [...]
New Home for My Blog
Welcome home! I hope you like the new place. Moving is always so difficult for me, and I so loved iWeb. But I had overtaxed iWeb’s abilities and it couldn’t handle the number of postings I had, so it was time to move on.
I am excited for you, dear readers, as this [...]
