lotti wrote:
Thanks for taking time out to ask, Lotti
When the new website was launched some tried out the Community and that is terrible to use. Like Wendy says you loose your posts and whether this was intentional when it was set up or just a flaw I don't know but I wouldn't bother using it. Maybe it's because I'm not a Facebook user that I find it a redundant feature. Pity about the blogs though but we'll just have to use the forum instead.

Jdeluka - what an amazing quilt! Congratulations of finishing and thanks for sharing. If it was me and I knew a really, really good longarmer who would work with me I would go for that option but quilting is such a personal thing. Good luck in your decision making quandary!
Marianne

Your quilts amazing you must be so pleased with it. I love the effects, well done. I look forward to seeing the next stage.

Thanks for sharing the message Lotti but I'm not surprised there's low usage of the community bit. All the posts from the forum turn up there as well and only a page is shown so those who only post there are going to lose their messages and are probably upset no one ever replies. And you can only reply if you're their friend. It's very disfunctional and when I see posts there I send a PM to suggest they post on the forum. If I were to post in Community I'd be talking to myself,again

Thanks Lotti! I love your pictures. Please keep sharing them!

logged onto my PC and it will let me upload the pic...don't know why my tablet wouldn't

good on you, Jdeluka, you totally deserve to be proud of yourself. looking forward to that picture.
Another beautiful hot day here in Switzerland - so I'm heading out to spend some time with the critters - sewing must wait
Enjoy your day!

Feeling very proud of myself

Thanks to an enjoyable quilting marathon on the last day of my vacation and a few nights of late night sewing after the boys went to sleep I have finished the last seam in my wedding star! I'm so pleased with how it turned out. I couldn't be happier

I have to say, thanks to all the curved piecing this was the most complicated pieced quilt top I've finished to date. Think I'm going to tackle something easy next, but a mariner's compass is on my bucket list

Now the question is....attempt to quilt this myself (little nervous since there are quite a few bulky seams where all those little pieces intersect) or quilt by checkbook

... The system won't let me post a picture tonight, but I'll try to put one up tomorrow ...

Member Blogs:
I wrote to ask about them last week and got this reply from Bob Bigelow:

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"We currently do not have a member blogging system on the new website for two reasons:
1. The new website has a Facebook like profile system for each member and this is where members can post things. You can find this under “Community”.
2. Relative to the number of active members, the member blogs had a extremely small percentage of members posting to it.
Hope this helps."
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So - My thinking:
We need to post our "Blog-Stuff" in our facebook-like profile area
And this might be the reason for that 'friend' function, so that we can follo each other's info...

A friend and I went to the Sisters Quilt Show two years ago. We each took a class. Love the quilt shop there, has a contemporary quilt vibe. It would be a lovely place to retire.

Kathy

artmomma wrote:
Sisters is on my list of things to do as well. We are going through the area this year but missed the show!

Beautiful quilts, pretty flowers and interesting news! I read so fast the names with the details are not clicking.

However - one of these days I really want to attend the Sisters Quilt Show. I love seeing pictures of that show.

LuAnn please tell us which long arm you ordered?

Sew happy, Susan

kfstitcher wrote:
Thank you for the info, Karen. Hope they come back one day. I lost mine one day I was editing a post and never found it again but that was before th migration and certainly due to my clumsiness
Marianne

AnnieLu wrote: Congratulations! How very, very exciting for you . Don't forget to share all about it here
The blogs I was talking about was the blogs on the old website that members could decide whether or not they shared with the outside world.. It looks like they have gone. I wrote one for a while but suddenly one day all posts had disappeared but that was before the old site was made away with.
Marianne

We're the blogs that you speak of actually links to a person's blog, or were they 'The Quilt Show' based? I never got that far before so I am in the dark on it. I'm hoping that it was some sort of "linky" thing because right now one blog to keep up with is crazy ,,,,
Why? Because I just ordered my longarm machine. Decided on one of my two top choices. It was service availability, and computer software that helped make the final decision. I should be the proud mama within 7-10 business days! Excitement is running high in this house. Even my DH is onboard and looking forward to the computer. That part I'm a bit hesitant about. Hope he doesn't think I will share very often!! LOL
LUANN

Marianne, the report was that the blogs were not lost but needed work to bring them over to the new place. I was assured that if that doesn't happen we would be given a chance to get all our old blogs back. It was so nice to follow people on their blogs and learn about their lives and places they live.