I’ve been around awhile…

Hey y’all! It’s Friday and time for a blogpost, like I promised.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about technology and how it’s changed the way we quilt, for a new lecture series. We really have come a long, long way in the last twenty years with quilting, haven’t we? Twenty years ago, there was no such thing as:

• “Approved” machine quilting. We were still hand-basting quilts and hand quilting them, because it was taboo for quilters to enter a machine quilted quilt into a quilt competition. Thank you, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry for breaking the mold for us!

• iPods, iPads, or iPhones. There was no such thing as a podcast, blog, online fabric stores — you name it.

• The Statler stitcher hadn’t been invented yet. Any machine quilting was done on a domestic machine, or free motion on a longarm.

And that’s just to name a FEW.

WebGuy and I have been working on a new website and updating this dusty old one. In moving over to a new website, I have to take so many things into consideration that I may or may not be able to take with me over to the new website. The one thing I need to consider is that I will have an all-new Archive area. I will lose the one that is currently on this website, and all of the links to when I first began — in 2004.

My first blogpost was published on August 8th, 2004. My youngest son was 13 and I had no grandchildren then. My mom was still alive and I had accomplished not one of the things that I have done in the last ten years. She didn’t get to see one of my accomplishments — being a guest on Alex and Ricky’s The Quilt Show, publishing a book with C&T, any of it. Ah, well.

I was just thinking — you may not know how long I’ve been around either. So, I’m sharing the links to the Archives here. There’s a list for ya.

In my very first blogpost, I talked about blogging and shared a photo of a hand appliquéd quilt that I made. Two years ago, I gave that quilt to my granddaughter, Lucy.

(The girls asked me for heart quilts, “just like the one you made for mommy” for their birthdays, which are two days apart. How could I say no?)

So, the next time you’re surfing the web (is that an old term already?), check out my first B.P.* blogs (*before podcast). I also wrote a blogpost in August 2004 about the significance of the 54/40 or Fight block.

Yep, this is the 54/40 or Fight block.

Check it out!

P. S. I updated the information in the previous post that has Podcast #231 in it. If you scroll to the bottom the link for April Cornell and some news about her can be found there.

Until next time — Happy Quilting!

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