Since I abandoned my blog, I have posted several YouTube videos about cross-stitching. There are so many cross-stitchers on YouTube now, we've starting calling it Flosstube. I'm loving it...it is so much fun! And to think, such a camera shy, introverted, mildly antisocial being such as myself, has an active YouTube channel. It does boggle the mind at times.
I am also active on a few Cross Stitch groups on Facebook. And I've even dabbled with Instagram, although I'm not currently active with it.
So, why start posting to my blog again? Two reasons mainly...
First I have some files that I've created that I've offered up to the crafting communities. The more recent ones are posted in the files section of one of the Facebook groups I belong to, and I also send them directly to anyone asks and provides me with an e-mail to send them to. Not everyone does Facebook, and sometimes the exchange of email addresses on YouTube has proved somewhat tedious. I finally realized that I can put these files on my blog, and make it so much easier for crafters to get to them. Although, I will miss the interaction of sending the files directly to someone with a personal message.
Additionally, the information on blogs is actually quite valuable at times. When I've researched certain questions I've had, many times I find the information I am looking for on a blog. And when I do a keyword search on Google Image, where do the images usually come from? Online stores, blogs, Pinterest, Ebay, and Etsy, and occasionally YouTube. But not from where it seems many cross-stitchers are posting pictures, which seems to be Instagram, Forums, and Facebook groups. This is why I feel keeping a blog is a worthwhile endeavor.
Here are a few examples of things on blogs I've found using a Google Image keyword search:
Thanks to Ramona of Cross Stitch Bobobitch Mononitch blog, I discovered Cool Cardinal, which is now one of my WIPs.
Thanks to Terry of Fairies, Dragons and Mermaids...OH MY! blog, I discovered that I really like TW's Tracery Dragons even more on a medium blue fabric. This is on my to-do list.
And one search even led me to the amazing plethora of finishing techniques on Learn to finish with the Twisted Stitcher. Thank you so much Vonna for taking the time to compile all those wonderful tutorials!
An exhaustive search for just the right mini project for the Harvest SAL on Cross Stitch, It's Fun! FB group, finally led me to Harvest Pumpkin by Erica Michaels.
I was searching for a project for the Dumb Ways to Die SAL (spawned by an Australian public service announcement jingle), I was struggling since that doesn't really readily lend itself to cross-stitch. Since I grew up in Wisconsin, when I brainstormed on what I could do, I decided to do something from my home state. I went looking for a pattern of a badger. While growing up in WI, I was taught that if I happened across a badger in the woods, to run quickly in the opposite direction, because chances are I had stumbled into their den area and the badger was going to get very vicious to defend their den. Badgers are actually quite adorable when they're happy and relaxed, but damn scary when they're unhappy and feel threatened. So, a Google Image search turned up this pattern of a Badger. Here is my stitched piece for the SAL:
I think that is enough examples to support my point. My blog doesn't have any followers, and that is perfectly okay with me. I certainly don't expect anyone to read everything I write. But if I help one person with my files or pictures or whatever I post, then it is worth it. As with my Flosstube channel, I don't ever claim to post with any measure of regularity. That is just how it is.
Happy Stitching!
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