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December 19, 2007
Have a Cuppa
Posted by SharonB under Buttons, Challenges, Craft, Crazy quilting, Have a Cuppa, Needlework, Quilting, Take it Further challenge | Tags: challenge, classes, Contemporary Textiles, Have a Cuppa, slow cloth, slow craft, Take it Further, textile |[35] Comments
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In a Minute Ago 
December 19, 2007 at 10:06 am
Waving back Sharon! Enjoy your holiday because you certainly deserve it. A very happy Christmas to you and yours!
Cheers
Mary Anne
December 19, 2007 at 11:54 am
have great holiday, enjoy a few slow days and catch you in the new year.
jude
December 19, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Dear Sharon: I was thanking you profusely when I started putting Take it Further Challenge blog sites into a RSS reader … whew — what a lot of work you do for “us.”
Thank you also for all the links to the thoughtful “slow cloth” articles both here in the US and elsewhere …. and then I had a giggle. Do loved and old UFO’s count as slow cloths? I lovingly hold onto some things, and do eventually enjoy getting them out and finishing them. I have a drawer of embroidery items that still need the “final touch,” and quilt blocks, too.
Happy and healthy holidays! MaryjoO
December 19, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Hi Sharon, have a lovely break. You have certainly been very busy this year.
One thing I want to ask, hope it isn’t a “dumb” sort of question, but you have not stated whether or not you will be doing the challenge as well. We could all sit around in a big circle, gossiping and nattering, with a cuppa (is it okay if I drink coffee rather than tea?) and getting our work done together. I wrote about this on bilum. lol
December 19, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Have a great holiday break, I’m sure we will all be ready, although maybe a little hungover, on 1st Jan 🙂
December 19, 2007 at 8:47 pm
“Also next year I hope you can bear with me as I document more of my work in progress. I do actually stitch!”
You mean you can find time to stitch amongst everything else you do, LOL! Have a wonderful (slow) Christmas and I look forward to seeing more of your work in the New Year.
CA
December 19, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Oh, thanks Sharon…off to check my stat counter. LOL
I am pleased to see that I have obviously understood the gist of this discussion. A rare moment of clarity methinks!!
December 19, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Thanks you Sharon for all the hard work you’ve put in with TAST over the past year and I look forward to the new challenge where hopefully I can use some of the new stitches I’ve learnt. Enjoy your well earned rest have a Happy Christmas and see you in 2008.
December 19, 2007 at 11:45 pm
I for one will love seeing more “work in progress” shots from you!
Thanks for absolutely everything, Sharon…Have a lovely holiday!
December 20, 2007 at 1:15 am
Happy Holidays!
December 20, 2007 at 1:40 am
I appreciate your blog, both for the craft inspiration and the thought provoking comments. Have a blessed holiday.
December 20, 2007 at 1:51 am
Sharon, I wanted to say thank you for the TAST posts over the past year. That was an enourmous job. I didn’t sign up for the challenge, and I haven’t taken a stitch yet, but I saved the posts, and hope to work on a sort of band sampler, using all the stitches, in the near future. I think your influence goes farther than you imagine, even among those of us who just enjoy listening to the conversation.
Thank you again,
Jane from Illinois
December 20, 2007 at 6:08 am
Waving here Karen You ask “but you have not stated whether or not you will be doing the challenge as well. ” As I said when I first suggested a challenge I could post ideas for a challenge but I wont be stitching along
actually I will be working through a personal challenge that I first proposed here
https://sharonb.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/take-a-stitch-tuesday-week-42/
people did not take to idea so I asked for other suggestions. The idea of a design challenge was proposed which it was suggested by one of my readers that I could simply think of the challenge , and post it monthly
Some of my challenge thoughts are here
https://sharonb.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/thoughts-on-challenges/
So I put it to readers you can read about it here in the comments etc
https://sharonb.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/take-a-stitch-tuesday-week-47/
Personally I will be destashing and trying to get a lot of projects done as TAST took away a lot of personal stitching time this year and I really feel the need to clear the decks finish off stuff and do some of my own stitching. I will be blogging it
So the short answer is no – I have set up the challenge because others wanted to do it rather than me doing it – I will be doing my own thing and blogging the process
I will however fun watching what people do (teachers are a bit like that)
MaryJo – People often think that my WISPs (Work in slow Progress)are UFO’s but they are not for me a UFO is something not worked on for a year or so whereas a WISP is something that is fairly constantly picked up and put down my current crazy quilt (of diamond shaped blocks) is a bit like that
Thanks everyone for the comments about this last year as I appreciate them and realise it takes time to write them
December 20, 2007 at 7:50 am
Sharon, I too wish you Merry Christmas and all the best in the coming year!
December 20, 2007 at 8:51 am
Thanks, Sharon.
I’m going to be checking out the links you’ve given on slow cloth and continuing my reflections. I had hoped to make some more comments before this, but am finishing up last minute projects. I hope the discussion will continue
Have a great break. I’m so looking forward to Take it Further.
Deb
December 20, 2007 at 10:27 am
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, I will be looking forward to the challenge. And I want to Thank You for the video clip about feeds. You are correct some of us don’t understand all this blog lingo. And A Happy New Year.
December 20, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Being that I always feel I am at choice
I am planning to “Take It Further” and destash at the same time perhaps by using whatever challenge theme you suggest.
The real challenge for me will be sharing it.
I am still debating whether or not I will “weigh in” if I do I will share the experience.
I am new to sharing my creative side…unless it just leaks out by accident. Don’t have the time to figure that out.
Thanks again Sharon for all your fantastic energetic playful work.
I am breathing in the courage you have to share so freely. In admiration and appreciation. ~Kate from Vermont
December 20, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Merry Christmas Sharon, and a Happy New Year. Thank you for the TAST challenge, and for all those thought provoking chats over a cuppa during this year. Your blog stimulates and energises, long may it continue!!!!
December 20, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Many thanks to you Sharon for all you do for the world of crazy quilting. Your blog helps so many discover the joy and beauty of CQ’ing!
Hope you and Jerry have a very Merry Christmas and that you get your stash under control next year. I will be joining you in that effort and I know it will be a big task.
Thanks again for TAST — I followed along each week in spirit and stitched when I could. I’m ready to start the new year with a needle in hand!
December 21, 2007 at 6:23 am
I was delighted to discover your site, your many interests, and your classes this year. The challenge should be interesting.
In the topic of “slowness,” I found this nice on http://www.slowLab.net
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“Slowness is not time-based. It doesn’t refer to how long it takes to make or do something, but rather describes the individual’s elevated state of awareness in the process of creation, the quality of its tangible outcomes and a richer experience for the community it engages. ”
Have a lovely holiday.
pdc
December 21, 2007 at 10:38 am
I am sitting at the computer trying to find inspiration for my year 9 Textiles class for 2008 and have discovered your site. May I use some of your images for my ‘Inspiration’ introduction to this class? I would also like to use your site as a reference for students to use as part of their own research for assignments etc.
It is so great to find another who combines textiles and technology.
Have a great holiday
December 21, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Merry Christmas to you, and merry Christmas to me! I have just signed on for your class as a xmas present to myself. Looking forward to it a LOT(and not only because it coincides with the end of the school holidays!)
December 22, 2007 at 6:13 am
Carolyn
you asked “May I use some of your images for my ‘Inspiration’ introduction to this class? I would also like to use your site as a reference for students to use as part of their own research for assignments etc.”
Yes you can use some of the images as long as you credit me as the person who made them and provide a link to my website which contains the stitch dictionary
http://inaminuteago.com/
and blog which contains general references
https://sharonb.wordpress.com/
Please associate this information with every image. Thanks
December 26, 2007 at 4:51 am
I’ve just spent a couple hours looking at links on the list of challenge participants. Add that to a couple hours a few days ago, and I’m almost up to 100. Lots of eye candy!
There are so many multi-talented people signed up for this, that the results promise to be wonderful. I’m looking forward to the first challenge – in just a week.
December 28, 2007 at 9:43 am
Hi Sharon, I am waiting pariently for you to write tips and tricks on how to use the technology of the web and blogging at a basic level. When I started to blog I decided on wordpress because that is what you use. If Sharon uses it, it must be good.
But I still have not figured out how to put pictures on the side column. If this is not to advanced I hope to see it in the tutorial at some stage. Thank you for all you have done for everyone. Happy Stitching Hugs
December 29, 2007 at 9:22 am
Great text. Congratulations.
Saúde e paz! Peace!
December 29, 2007 at 11:38 pm
All the best for you in this New Year 2008, dear friend!!!
A kiss
December 30, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Just wanted to drop by and with you the very best for the remainder of the festive season – hope 2008 is a wondrous year filled with peace, love and happiness … and lots of stitchy and crafty goodness! 🙂
December 31, 2007 at 12:06 am
Thank you, Sharon, for this wonderful experience!
http://corinaj.wordpress.com/
December 31, 2007 at 3:14 am
Hi Sharon, hope you are enjoying your vacation time as much as I am. We’ll be back to it before we know it. As I’m contemplating a format for the Take It Further Challenge, I wonder if you have some resources for Fabric Books – tutorials, published books etc. It sounds like a wonderful way to display what I have accomplished, but I don’t know much about the book binding aspect. New Year’s wishes to you and your family!
December 31, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Sharon,
i’m passing to you the Make my day award, because I read your post everyday and enjoy it.
January 1, 2008 at 2:02 am
Hi,
I’m not sure whether I am in or not. I originally emailed back in mid December, set up a blog site and received a confirmation email from you. However I do not see myself listed among the challengers. Not sure whether it is a deadline thing, me being a techno-dweeb and not doing something right, me not responding back with some key info. When you get time, could you please either email me or comment on my blog and let me know where I stand.
Thanks, and Happy New Year!
Lori
January 1, 2008 at 5:11 am
Lori I emailed you mid December asking for either a blog or flickr address – but not heard back
If you have set one up please let me know the web address as soon as possible
I have emailed you again this morning
January 2, 2008 at 3:45 am
happy new year to you..
now,i am working , thinking in something to do, for the chalenge, i puts my neurons to work 😀
January 6, 2008 at 12:14 am
I’m in the thinking process of it for now, but I’ve added a post “TIF and ESP” on my blog
http://potironblogs.over-blog.com
beware, it’s a very very long post…..
Thank you Sharon for all this!!!!!
Happy New year to all my co-challengers, may it be everything you wish for and the most creative yet!!!!!