I’m hoping someone could help me out. I get a few requests a week from Quilting Bloggers that would like to add one of the logos to their sidebar, but they don’t know how. Since I don’t have a Blogger/Blogspot account, I’m not able to tell them how to do it.

If someone has time and could send me the detailed step-by-step instructions on how to do this, it would be greatly appreciated. Either post in the comments, or if you want to send me the instructions in email that would be great too. Thanks!!

Speaking of logos, there’s a new 125px square logo available for Quilting Bloggers. You can see it below. What do you think of it?

Update: Many thanks to Nicolette for sending me the blogger instructions. I’ll get them posted later on today.

… I’m really behind these days. A couple of days before Canada Day, I switched Internet providers and something went very wrong, resulting in me having no access for several days. While this might not be a big deal for many, for a web developer who works from home, this really caused me a lot of nuisance.

I had every intention of starting the Charity Quilting Month posts on July 2nd, but just haven’t had time to get them together. I hope to get caught on the Wednesday or by the weekend for sure. If you’re waiting for an email reply, please be patient, it’s coming too.

My mom and I had a great visit, we did some stitching (her knitting, me blanket stitching some applique) and shopping and eating out at restaurants. It was my birthday on the weekend, and I got some great gifts from my family (including home-made cookies that the cats ate already) and a lovely professional seam ripper from a friend of mine. My mom was here for breakfast that day, and she left right after so I spent a quiet afternoon and evening, relaxing, reading, watching some television and drinking some beer. It was perfect as I didn’t want anything elaborate and preferred to just forget about it altogether (yes, it was one of those big ones).

Anyway, I was back to work and getting client stuff done today, so I feel more in my groove than I have the past couple of weeks.

I was reading Judy L.’s Patchwork Times blog earlier today, and she was kind enough to post about my Charity Quilting Month in this great post of her Charity Quilting projects, which gave me a great idea to tie into the theme here. If others want to post a blog entry on their own site about their charity quilting efforts, then send me an email, I’ll gladly compile a list of the posts together in one spot on here. Depending on how many I get, I’ll do a couple of posts this month to highlight your submissions.

Have a great week,
Michele

My mom’s in town to visit for a few days, so posting will be limited, as I didn’t have a chance to get some posts ready ahead of time. However, the newsletter is just about ready to go out, look for it late tomorrow.

Have a nice week/weekend!

Darlene from Bee Sew Whimsical, in Australia, has kindly offered to feature the Quilting Bloggers directory in the July edition of her The Whimsical Honeypot newsletter.

Her newsletters are simply gorgeous and filled with wonderful information. Definitely one of the best newsletters I’ve ever seen and I’m sure you’ll think so too. If you subscribe today you’ll get to see the Quilting Bloggers feature in July when the next edition comes out.

Thank you Darlene, I can’t wait to see the Quilting Bloggers feature in the next issue.

Technorati Profile

July will be Charity Quilting Month here at the Quilting Gallery. This will be an opportunity to feature the many wonderful charities and organizations out there where quilts and quilters are involved. We are a very generous community. My hope is to have a charity to post about every other day during the month of July, but if I get more submissions, all the better.

Are you a charity organization and want to be featured here?

I’ve created a series of questions below that you can use as a template in preparing your submission. Send me your submission along with any photos or logos you would like used in the post. Please don’t just send me a URL, I don’t have time to do the research myself. Feel free to skip questions that are not appropriate and add ones that are more applicable to your particular group.

• Describe your organization or group.
• Did any one person or event inspire the creation of the charity quilt group/organization?
• Geographic location of your organization or group (i.e. world-wide, country-wide, or city/state/province only).
• If applicable, how many chapters are there world-wide or country-wide?
• If applicable, how many charity quilts have been donated?
• Are there any special yearly events, such as a quilt-a-thon?
• How many volunteers are involved?
• How can one volunteer, donate or get involved?
• Submit photos of finished quilts (maximum of 4).
• Submit logo or other branding for use in the blog post.
• Web site address?
• Other contact information.

Any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I reserve the right to edit any submissions; however, I’ll be sure contact you if I’ve changed anything significant.