Really Random Thursday!

23May
by Janine @ Rainbow Hare
I love Really Random Thursdays and all week I seem to notice things that strike me as perfect for a RRT post but then, somehow, on Thursdays my mind goes blank and I forget whatever I was going to write about.
So, today, I thought I’d share part of a post from a blog I had before this one. That blog was actually full of random posts. It was my learning-how-to-make-a-blog blog. It wasn’t really about anything much and I mostly changed the background a lot and posted some designs that I didn’t have time to do anything with. Then, occasionally, I’d throw in some thoughts on a poem or post some seasonal photos. Once someone very sweetly emailed me to ask if they could use the image at the top of this post in a book they were putting together to comfort recently bereaved people but, mostly, no one noticed it was there!
Then in May 2011, I started considering quilting (below).
And today I realised that, although, compared to lots of quilters and bloggers, I feel as if I don’t accomplish much everything on this blog and more has been made in less than two years and all my UFOs are less than two years old.
I feel like I’ve had this blog and been sewing and linking up with everyone and joining in bees and swaps since forever and it’s quite amazing to me than only two years ago I didn’t know this quit-blog-osphere even existed.
 
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Monday, May 30, 2011

May (and maybe…)

…The other maybe started quite innocuously. I was idly daydreaming about the possibility of turning some of my images into some kind of textile art and I googled ‘fairytale quilts’ to look up a book I used to own (and which I lent to someone) because I remember it having lots of information on different types of embroidery. And that was when I came across this wonderful book ~

Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale

I haven’t read it yet but you can discover more about both the story and an extraordinary quilter here.
Anyway, as I searched a bit more I found myself going from quilt to quilt and blog to blog and it reminded me that making a quilt – a red and white bear paw one in particular – has been on my ‘to do’ list for years and I started thinking maybe the time has come…
Then, to cut a long story short, I quite fell in love with some of those quilting blogs – they have a wonderful upbeat jargon so I can now call all the old sewing projects that I have never got around to completing UFOs (unfinished objects) and I can now call recycling old fabrics and making things out of old clothes ‘upcycling’ – which has a much more positive spin than words like ‘used’ or ‘second hand’ and helps save the planet! There are also tutorials, quilt-alongs and swaps… and I know the last (and first and only) quilt I ever made was for one of my daughters when she was six and now she’s at uni and I know I never get around posting blogs – but I’m thinking maybe…

Posted by Janine at 8:07 PM   

 
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Do you have randomness to share?

Janine @ Rainbow Hare

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