Random

Welcome to a new week! In spite of good progress, I've no new finishes to show, so I thought I'd share some randomness.

I recently read an interesting article about sewing trends on Sew, Mama, Sew - see here. It's always a bit amusing to realize you're part of one - or more!

I've also seen some good info about ways to hang our quilts. I'll be considering these methods for hanging sleeves: here and here; and this one for sewn-in corners. Any thoughts?

And, there's a fun event over at Ellison Lane Quilts, starting today - a modern mini quilt challenge.

This challenge has an interesting schedule - a couple of weeks of blog-hopping with inspiration and tutorials and such, another couple of weeks of sewing time, and then the link-up. See the complete schedule here. Let's say I'll see how things go, but I really enjoy making minis, so I would like to join in the challenge. Anyone with me?

I had several questions following my Something's Fishy post regarding flicker-explorer. I did learn that photos chosen by explorer are sometimes dropped, picked back up, etc. Even with that info, it's kind of curious why your number would fluctuate between applications at a given point in time, but I guess my conclusion is - it can happen. When you use "Scout" at bighugelabs.com to make a 'poster' of your explored pictures, there is an option to 'include dropped'. In doing so, I was able to see all my photos {here}. And for those of you interested in the flickr widget on your blog, you can easily create it using 'Profile Widget.'

In writing this post, I discovered my in-progress project for the For the Love of Solids was selected.

I've really been having fun with this one, and am soliciting opinions on using variegated thread. Here's a little swatch of a test run. (Thread is King Tut "Joseph's Coat.")

Well, enough randomness for today! Have a great one!