Sew Here We Go

Ever heard of National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo)?  I hadn’t heard of it either, until last November which just happens to be NaBloPoMo.  That’s also how I heard about Ning which is a social networking website (like Facebook or MySpace) and that’s how I started the Quilting Friends social network.  Well, the goal of NaBloPoMo is to post every day for the month of November. If you do, you get entered into a drawing for some sort of prize given away at the NaBloPoMo ning site.  Yeah!  So, I tried, but it turns out I posted two or three times a day and not at all on the weekends. So, I didn’t really qualify. But that’s OK with me. Well, after the excitement over the one month of posting everyday, people started to get really excited about this idea and the NaBloPoMo creators decided to choose a theme each month and sort of challenge people to post everyday of the month something related to that theme. Wow, this is a long story leading up to the exciting part. The theme for April is…(drumroll please) Letters! OK, what does that have to do with quilting or quilting blogs or tutorials or anything that is supposed to be related to this blog? A lot actually. When I saw that the theme for April was letters (of the alphabet or letters that you write to someone) I immediately decided that I could probably come up with at least one topic for every letter of the alphabet that related to quilting, and I did! I have the list all ready, and I must admit that I cheated a little bit. I went to the Quilter’s Cache website and searched the alphabetical listing of their block tutorials, but only on the letters when I got really stuck. The rest were my own creation. So, in a few days, beginning on April 1, I will try to post something on this blog every day that relates to the letter of the day and to quilting. I figured that alphabetizing the tutorials I link to or create and post here is a great way to create a searchable database, so to speak.  That way, if you want to find out how to do, say, zippers, you can come over to Merrily We Sew Along and instead of having to search through days and days of posts, just check the catagory list to the right and look for “Z” and you’ll go straight to all the “Z” posts. I am sure zippers will be at the top of the list if it’s there.  Isn’t it fun when things just fall into place?  This will also help to keep me focused, because I do tend to wander off on bunny trails during my posts (see beginning of this post).  Since I have the Sew Good Sew Far blog for random quilting thoughts and other stuff, I hope to make this blog more focused and useful.  Also a slight disclaimer. I am not the end all be all of quilting. In fact, I could probably admit that I have not officially be quilting for a year yet and I have never actually quilted the top, batting and backing of a quilt and then bound it a used it as a quilt! Wow, what a confession. But, I do know how to search the Internet for all the other wonderful tutorials about there (with credit to the source, of course) and I hope to expand my skills by creating some tutorials of my own. I’ve probably already mentioned that in my introduction post, and I’m sorry if I repeat myself. Well, I guess that’s it for now. Hopefully you aren’t kept in too much suspense but perhaps enough that you’ll visit often and even leave a comment or two. By the way, you may have realized that even though there are 26 letters in the alphabet, there are actually 30 days in April. If you know me, you know that I almost never have a shortage of things to say, especially if the topic is sewing or quilting, but I have a plan to help fill in those extra four days. But that’s a surprise. Who knew I could be so sneaky? (Bet my husband did.) Until next time.

Happy Stitches to You,

Anna