I’m working on a new quilt idea. I’ve discussed it before, the koi pond repeat in some sort of watercolor technique similar to the sunset quilt.
I originally flirted with using the 2″ square dance block but have since veered toward a stretched hex (coffin, not honeycomb). I’ve ordered some coffin shaped English paper pieces. They’re gonna take a while to get here because the shape isn’t a standard one for PaperPieces.com so they’ll have to draft it before sending it to the laser cutter computer. Hopefully it’s not going to cost an arm and a leg.
This morning I had a flash . . . what if I created a stamp the size and shape I want. I could stamp the image on the back of the material, do some pin matching and sew the seams by machine. Y seams don’t bother me and I think I can pin and sew accurately enough to do the job by machine. I wouldn’t have to trim super accurately, wouldn’t have to use a template, wouldn’t have to sew the blocks together by hand (English paper piecing). Hmmm . . . You KNOW I’m gonna have to try . . .
So, ever the research queen, I’ve been looking at rubber stamps. I found this really plain Jane website with rubber stamp construction info. Next time I head into town I’ll pick up a blank stamp and see if I can carve what I need. Before I do that I’ll draw a couple and try sewing and see what I get.
Hi there would you mind letting me know which hosting company you’re working
with? I’ve loaded your blog in 3 completely different internet browsers and I must say this blog loads a lot faster then most.
Can you recommend a good web hosting provider
at a fair price? Many thanks, I appreciate it!
You need to be aware of a few things, regardless of where you host your blog. First, is it hosted at a datacenter or some secondary location? Next, is it a shared server? By that I mean, how much free space is allocated and how many sites are hosted on that one server? And lastly, how cluttered up and complicated is your WordPress theme?
I will have to tell you . . . my two friends and I cheat. I mean we REALLY cheat. Together we purchased a reseller account which allows us to have LOTS of room and lots of available bandwidth. Between us we host nearly 100 sites for ourselves, friends, family and clients. We pay for nearly 3 times the space we regularly use to ensure we don’t run into traffic issues.
If you purchase hosting for a single account from a provider like Hostgator (the service we use) you will run into those issues due to site-server density. It won’t matter which hosting provider you use (assuming you stick to hosts who have servers at a big datacenter (Houston, Seattle, Boulder, etc.) they will stick you on a server with a mass of other single-site clients. You are at the mercy of the traffic volume.