General 3:21 pm
Off-topic, but seeing this was just shocking.
Now I know that I don’t need to be ever concerned about how I look. Why should I, when even a horrible hag can be turned into you’ll see what, only for a couple of hours? OMG.
http://fishki.net/comment.php?id=17534
So friends, looks are meant to be deceiving.
Cross Stitch and General 6:29 pm
Now this is a really good question.
Today’s SBQ was suggested by Heather
(http://theneedlesbe witchingeye. blogspot. com/) and is:
How do you decide which stitching blogs are worth repeat and/or
regular viewings? Are there certain things you look for in particular?
Are there things you wish there were more of? Less of? Is your blog a
good example of what you like to read?
The permalink to this post is:
http://blondelibrarian.net/stitching/archives/202007/04/sbq-/blog-criteria/
One of the main reasons to make me want to read a blog and return to it often would be “designs style”. Don’t want to repeat myself and most of the readers already know my preferences. But it wouldn’t be only the designs, like seeing only WIP photos of one particular huge project. (yours truly is guilty of such entries). The most - most - to make a blog attractive to me is the crafter’s personal attitude to what she/he does. ‘course not all people can write eloquently (this is also a matter to keep in mind), but still it is more or less seen whether the person is putting their emotions into it, “putting himself into it”, or is rather indifferent and may be blogging/stitching because it’s cool , because others are doing it or to merely pass time…or is grasping only for the surface. But this is just an assumption. No matter what exactly is the situation, some blogs just have a “cold” or empty feel to them; at least I have difficulty to reach the person behind the words. So in short I am looking to “become involved as a reader in the story told by the blog author”. It is actually not so difficult to achieve as there are stitching blogs that do it.
My blog (at least recently) is not a good example of this. I am not making efforts to write in a way I’d be interested to read, and not adding more diverse content to the blog. The reason is just as with my current status of needleworking, I have no time to devote to focusing on it as I would like to. Or maybe it’s not the time issue but the “freedom of mind”. I am occupied with too much stuff these months. But maybe someday I will be able to make this blog more interesting, as also allow myself to delve deeper into this craft and art, as it deserves.
Cross Stitch and Projects and Sources 6:36 am
…because of the following good news: Teresa Wentzler will be releasing one design from the Best of Sampler Collection every month through December 2007. Birth Announcement already went to my wish list.
I wish I could finish Rose Tree soon so to start the next acquisition 
Cross Stitch and Designs and designers and WIP 2:38 pm
Or at least this is how I would estimate it, of course subjectively. I did some rose backstitching to “exercise” the color change; otherwise backstitching is left to be done last. This design clearly has an Art Nouveau feel.
(clicky of course)
Speaking about this style, I also very much enjoy stained glass-themed designs (and stained glass itself). In the past I experimented with some stained glass images and made them into patterns. Judging by the result it was successful but then yours truly was too lazy to actually stitch this result. (the patterns were too simplistic for my “will actually stitch it” taste). I would do this, if of course made into pattern and a quality one.
On a side note found some cat designs while looking for more Art Nouveau. My cat type is there, although “Octopussy” is not something I would name a thing as.
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