Busy busy busy

I've been very busy since my last post. One of the things that occupied my time was a trip to Sydney to go visit a few businesses and to visit the stitches and craft show at Rosehill. Now, whilst I am a quilter, the thing that took my attention was the scrapbooking. I bought lots of books and pads of push out paper boxes and decorations, not to actually scrapbook myself but as ideas for christmas decorations, fabric postcards and ATCs. So watch out for those in future.

Oh and the other thing that has kept me busy - we have published Issue #6 of iQuilt and we have subscriptions up and running. So if you want to subscribe to iQuilt finally you can. And if you have not looked at iQuilt yet go look at the free issues to see if you like what we are doing.

Till next time

Nora

Back again, only a week this time!

I am getting better at this. This time it has only been a week since my last posting. I've been busy organising lots of stuff for iQuilt. But that will all come to light later.

I have been asked where is the photo of me on the blog. Well I went looking amongst the piccies and realised there almost none of me. But here is the most recent one I could find. I am on a chairlift a Thredbo. Thank goodness there is more snow now!

Till next time

Nora

Back at last

Well so much for my good intentions. But I have been very busy and we have published 2 issues of iQuilt since my last entry. I have also made my first PIF. Sorry Bron, but I wanted it as a project for iQuilt. I love the idea of Doll Quilts and since you were in a swap, that is what it had to be. I raided the strips I had been collecting for a colourwash quilt. Hope you like pink and black/grey.

Back soon (honest!)

Nora

Pay it Forward

Hi all

After a long absence I'm back. Life has been very busy but now I am going to try to add at least 1 blog entry a week.

Well now to the real reason I have come back here, I'v put my name down for a "Pay it Forward" thingy. Until I saw this and had to put my name down, I had never heard of them. So for those who like me had never heard of them let me explain, well at least tell you what I know about them.

Pay it Forward (PIF) is where the next 3 people who make a comment on my blog requesting to be part of this PIF exchange will get sent a personal handmade something or 2 from me. However, if you join here you need to make the same offer on your blog.

Now I will be going the angst of all who put that hand up for this in worrying that no-one will want my hand made goodies. Oh well I will survive as my ego is not that frail. And hey if I get no responses now I might put me down for another one later when there are more people looking at my blog. I might even have some pictures up then so people can see what I do. Worst case you might get a set of placemats like the one above, best case - who knows, a small quilt, something felted, maybe tell me what you like!

anyway, must off to think about what I might make!

Nora

PS Issue 4 of iQuilt has been delayed but is coming soon!

It's Snowed!

Hi everyone.

I'm very excited because it has snowed! We moved from Sydney to Berridale about 6 months ago and this is our first winter here. We've been watching the snow reports and crossing our fingers for a good ski season. We have had some snow in the mountains already, but this is the first snow here this season. It is very exciting!

Two cold, wet but excited boys came home from school and had a snowball fight in the back yard. The dog and the cat refuse to go outside. Poor Tiger has never seen snow before and it is a bit of a shock for a 9 year old cat! The dog is a 10 week old puppy who refused to go for a walk to the post office just before it started snowing. Smart animals!

I'll put a better picture up next post, but I was so excited I just needed to share this with everyone.

Cold but happy

Nora

Hello from Nora

Hello everyone.
This is my first entry in my iQuilt blog. Being a technical person and not really a writer, don't be surprised if the writing style is a bit abrupt, but hopefully over time it will improve.
I want to tell you a little bit about iQuilt and what we hope to achieve with this online magazine. The idea is to have a magazine that is purely online. We want to have all the things you find in a print magazine if possible and have extra things that we can bring you because it is online. Because this is so new we have not got all of the details and features worked out yet but we are working in it as fast as we can. This does have the benefit that nothing is set in concrete and we can be flexible to meet our audiences needs. And if you have an idea, a want or a need we are not meeting let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you. Maybe not tomorrow though, but as soon as we can.
So why online? Well with the advent of the Internet, I look for everything online first. And people who have grown up with the Internet will not really think to look elsewhere. When I looked around there was no genuine online quilting magazine so it was time to start one. And by genuine online magazine, I don't mean a magazine that is effectively an online print magazine with a PDF file of each issue, I mean a magazine that you view as web pages with links, with videos, maybe podcasts and whatever other interactive features we can provide.
And as well as bring you lots of new features your magazine will no longer take up precious shelf space. As a quilter (and do-er of lots of other creative things) my shelf space is precious and of course insufficient for my needs. So being able to reclaim space from magazines is a great benefit. We moved house 6 months ago, and the quilting magazines and books came a close 3rd in size behind stuff from my husband's business and my fabric stash. Moving and finding out exactly what I had was a very scary experience!
iQuilt also wants to help the quilt industry thrive and grow and unless the industry keeps up with the times that will not happen. We will be providing a means for quilt related business to contact and inform net savvy people about their business. We went to the trade show at Rosehill last weekend and learnt so much about the needs of the industry. Now we are working on how to meet some of those needs. But all of that will come later.
That's enough for now and I hope this arouses your interest in what iQuilt will be bringing you in the future. When I add new features to iQuilt I'll be posting about them to this blog, so come back regularly to see what fun I'm having.
Oh, and I may even get to tell you about what quilting I'm somehow finding time to do! lol.
Enjoy! from
Nora at iQuilt.com.au