Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Blocks vs Bloglovin'

I've been working on my lovely Simply Color
hourglass blocks.

As alway..my projects are a wee bit bigger than I anticipate. I love me some Simply Color by V & CoThis pattern is inspired by the lovely craftytammie

I started this as it would be "so easy"
And now it's a smidgen of a chore.
{It could be I've expanded the pattern to use every last hourglass block}

So I'm plodding along.
I'm pretty proud the sewing of the 4 patch "blocks". 86% of the centers match up like a dream and the other's aren't enough to bother with.

Precision in trimming and finding my 1/4" sewing line makes such a difference!

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Sooooo, during my Sew Mama Sew giveaway that was so successful I asked a question regarding how people read blogs. 

I love the responses and had the idea to create a pie or line chart of the data.

First off, I spent at least 20 minutes trying to remember how to graph data.  I was nearly in tears as years ago this is ALL I DID! How such a simple thing can fall out of the back of my head was just astonishing.  This whole getting older business is terrible!

Second, I just couldn't get through all the responses.  It was just too much for me to get through- I would rather be sewing my hourglass blocks. :)

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What I did learn is that many people are adjusting to the changes being forced upon us by the google overlords and now the  flickr overlords. 
{phrase from Sew Happy Geek}

The vast majority of people are going over to bloglovin' for their reading pleasure. 
I am too.

So let me share a few items I've figured out about this bloglovin' thing:

Good: - you can place blogs into categories!  I don't know if I could have done this in Google Reader but I've transferred many of my blogs into categories such as "Power Bloggers", "Foodie", "Mommy mainly"

So-So: Well every time I wanted to visit a blog I got this *cursing* frame on the top. 
The fix is found in settings.


I've changed the above setting and I'm not angry every time I click to a blog.

The other so-so is the daily emails.  I want these but at the same time I don't.  I won't change this option but usually just trash these things. It is an okay reminder to go and check out my peeps :)

Bad: Bloglovin' only keeps blogs for 2 weeks, unless you like them. Sadly this is not enough time for meeee. 

And there are these "featured posts" that are annoying!
{I sent a request to get rid of these things}

And I can't seem to search for keywords in the blogs I follow.

And I can't seem to re-arrange these to read from the oldest to the newest.

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As you can tell I need to spend more time with this bloglovin' thing.

All in all it's nice to have a reader.  I'll be looking into an ipad as there seems to be a super cool application on that.  Oh darn another toy :)

Well off to sew some hourglass blocks.  See you on the other side.


9 comments:

  1. I love your hourglass block quilt. It is very cute! The hourglass block is one of my favorite blocks to make!!!

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  2. Gorgeous hour glass blocks! My bug bear with bloglovin is I can't delete old posts I've not had time to read without marking all as read!

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  3. I've been going up the down elevator by using feedly rather than bloglovin' and I like it quite a bit. (You can do the categories thing, I haven't had issues with weird frames or anything and you can opt out of featured articles, but I MISS the 'next' function from Reader.) The issue with it right now is that it piggy-backs off Google Reader. They're working on their own... whatever to make it keep running, but as far as I know, they haven't switched - what if they're not ready when dooms day comes? It's an option, anyway, and the site somehow bothers me less than Bloglovin' does (though I couldn't say why).

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  4. Oh, I didn't know that about the two week thing. That's not enough time for me either.

    Cute blocks though. Even if they are a chore.

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  5. Oh thank you thank you for showing me how to get rid of those cursed frames! The two week thing I don't understand... I haven't ever "liked" a blog by pressing a particular button or anything. Weird...

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  6. I LOVE your hourglass blocks!! So so so pretty =D
    I couldn't get into Bloglovin, so I went with Feedly. I really like it :) I found it much more user friendly than Bloglovin!

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  7. Cannot wait to see your finish with these blocks. I too got a little in the chore category with hour glass blocks...it's like they aren't fun after 190 right? They get better when sewn together though and make a great quilt! I use feedly and have no complaints...it is hard to change though :)

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  8. I use Feedly on my phone, and I kinda like it more than Bloglovin, but Bloglovin is for the home computer. I'm getting slightly annoyed at the emails, and then I have to spend a day going through (like now) and going through and deleting them.

    Love your simple blocks - those like a 4 patch are nice to go back to now and again. Very colorful and fun!

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  9. I use Feedly and I don't have any 2 week rule...Feedly also brought over ever save post I had from Google reader.

    That being said, the hour glass quilt is perfect!!

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