Early Monday morning

It is really early (3:45am) and I am having issues sleeping, so I'm thinking of sewing... Which leads straight into...

I am looking at a lot of different blogs and the free tutorials that they have on them... I think that I should start a list of favorite tutorials. Do you have any to add?

Found a great bag on SewCalGal's site here, looks easy enough to make a few for Christmas/Hanukkah.

Here is a wonderful binding tutorial from LaVieEnRosie, with some interesting side notes about what judges look for when judging a quilt show.

I found the cutest baby quilt... made by Johanna from Jona&Lili. It is a nice and easy diamond baby quilt. I think this would be a great lap quilt if I expand it a little bit... what do you think? The tutorial is at The Quilted Fish's Sweet Divinity posting.

I am sure that you noticed the "We Are The Face of Quilting" gadget (on the sidebar) it is from Jennifer Ofenstein's blog Sewhooked. It is worth checking what she has to say about being one of the many faces of quilting...

Jennifer's blog Sewhooked, has some of the cutest (free!) paper piecing patterns to share that you should take a look at them...

I'll be back, but right about now (6:45 am) I'm in need of additional coffee...

For now, thanks for stopping by...

Ciao for now :)
J :)

Blogs I Love to Follow

Do you have favorite Blogs that you follow? (Ok, I hope I am one... just saying...) I confese, I do! They are mostly sewing/quilting/fiber art related, but there are a few that are game related... Do you know who Professor Hershal is? (Major hint ~ a DS game)

Back to my fav blogs... I do have a running list (to the right) of those that have posted. But I totally need to check out on a daily basis Pat Sloan, Bumble Beans Inc, SewCalGal, Moda Bakeshop (to see if there are any new patterns), p.s. i quilt, Jaybird Quilts, Ryan White, Canton Village Quilts (Bloggers BOM), and these are the ones that are off the top of my head! Wow!

Yes, there are a lot more. If you are looking for their latest postings, look no further than to the right of this post. As many post daily.

I arrived at this train of thought while reading SewCalGals blog about Fiskar Titanium rotary cutters, I think I need to find some of these blades... They look as if they will last much longer than the ones I use now... I would suggest checking out SewCalGals blog to review the cutters for yourself... I tried to post pictures, but working with my iPad is just not cutting it today.

Ah... Need more coffee...

Thanks for joining me :)

Ciao for now :)
J :)

Other peoples comments...

This morning, while looking for positions to apply to, I came across a comment on a Blog I follow... The Blog was talking about how Social Media is the 'wave of the future/present' and had some pictures to show what they felt it meant

The comment was as follows:
"How does social media work for people that others dislike? How does it work for the person who was the disliked kid in school, in jobs, in social life? How does it work for the person who the more people know about the less they like, the person who has learned that it is better to keep a low profile?"

They are all interesting comments, but if one is a non social person, both in person as well as online, I have a few questions that I would need to have answered to try to understand them. They would be:
    Do you have a job? (You need to interact with others in order to work)
    Do you use the computer?
    Do you have friends?
    Are you married/engaged/separated? (You need to meet others to have these statuses)
    Do you have an email address?
    Do you receive email/mail?

When I started to think about it, the blogger is truly on the right path, social media is and has been a way of life for a long time, it's just morphed thru the Internet and the different social media outlets.

Hope you have enjoyed today's rant along with your coffee. :)
J