1. You must have a weblog about your quilt-related projects, ideas, processes, and adventures. 2. Your blog does not have to be exclusively related to machine quilting. We love reading about lots of things, but please include some machine quilting content occasionally for us. 3. Your blog should be updated 3-4 times a month on average. Blogs that are found to be languishing will be removed from the ring. 4. You need to include the ring code on the blog page, so that visitors can surf to other bloggers' sites. (That's the point, so visitors can find other machine quilters!) 5. You must love quilts and machine quilting!
Follow the instructions on that page, please ask if you need help.
Once you have the ring code displaying properly on your blog, an administrator will activate your membership in the blog ring. If your membership is not activated within 24 hours, you can e-mail admin @ mqresource.com to ask for help.
Our world is full of people wanting shortcuts. We want to have everything and we don't want to wait -- we want what we want and we want it right now. The situation with the US financial system is certainly indicative of that...but I'm not here to talk about such an unpleasant topic!!
As quilters we are no different -- we want to produce beautiful quilting and we want to do it yesterday. Now, I'll grant you that there are some prodigies in the machine quilting world, but those prodigies are pretty few and far between. The rest of us have to work at our craft, and what may look effortless is actually the result of many long years of hard work.
Practice might be spelled with 8 letters, but I'm sure many people consider it a "4-letter" word -- one that you'd rather not hear in your house and try to use as little as possible. I'm here to tell you, though, that this particular "P" word and several of its friends are not as horrible as you might think, and I'd like to give you some tips and ideas about how to effectively practice.