Journey with Podcast -Crafty

As I started working out regularly again - don't ask me how many times I've failed in the past, I started listening to the podcasts on my iPhone. Well, I guess technically, I could have tried that on my iPod, but never tried it till just past April. I found myself really enjoying listening to them now. Regardless of how much I enjoy reading, this is just great as I still can enjoy it while doing something different, just like listening to the radio shows with more specific interest at any time!!

I had no idea at first about what kind of episodes are available beside the news type of things which I'm not particularly interested in. But to my surprise, there are all kinds of categories!! Wow!!!



And another good news is there are quite few craft related podcasts we all enjoy! I quickly found some of my favorite ones and almost glued on and have keep downloading them to my iPhone! It's sure called addiction. I won't name any of them here, but if you are like me, new to podcasts and would like to take a journey through, you can search them by using some keywords like "quilt", "craft" and so on.

I pretty much enjoy anyones, especially the quilty ones with the historical things, product reviews, personal quilty stories which are very interesting and how to type of things as well.

I also discovered that there are some bloggers on my blog list who are also hosting their own podcast or being interviewed by someone's podcast.

When I just started listening to and seaching them, I tried to avoid the ones which were done with unprofessional manner, as they seemed to get annoyed at certain point as listening. But now I actually found some of them are rather interesting as I feel they are like us, just the ordinally quilters, not anyone very special. So they can deliver their own episodes with something we all a kind of agree with and had the same experiences - good and bad.

Well, while I was listening to the new episode of one of my favorites today and noticed the way the podcast hostess talks was a little different than ever. I was wondering why and didn't much care for how she has changed her talking style. Then I moved onto the next one before finish listening to the other one, and found this one is the same thing! Just way too fast!!



The above picture is a screen shot from my iPhone which shows the top right corner. Do you see "2X" on the blue back ground? Yes, somehow, I guess my iPhone was set to listen whatever with the double high speed mode!!! No wonder they sounded so fast! LOL I'm blaming on my fat finger!



The above is 1/2 speed, which is way too slow for me.



I'm now back to the normal speed mode. Phew...
Oh, she is talking about how important the value of the fabrics, not the colors... I got to pay attention now!!

Still a lot to play with the podcasts as well as my iPhone...



-- Posted from my iPhone

One more addition

I made one more block the day before yesterday while browsing thru the quilt book from the local library. Can you tell which one is the newest one? It's the far left front one in the above picture.

As there are four more blocks to go and two of them are Paper Piecing patterns, I was looking for the substitutins as I don't do very well with the paper pieced blocks at all. Then you would think it's a perfct opportunity for me to practice that, but it doesn't work that way for me. Lazy, lazy and more excuses not to...


As I was thinking if I can find a quilt blocks collection kind of APP for iPhone, I found this on the top left corner of the above. It's a screen shot the last page of my iPhone right now. They are all quilt related APPs.


This APP will give you a couple of different sizes of each block with the fabric cutting measurements. I wad lucky to find two of them I was looking for and still trying to see what else they have on their list... Fun time!

-- Posted from my iPhone

Trying to wake up...

Oh, hi there. It's been gorgeous here in the desert and I've been sure enjoying this spring.

Well, the reason for being away from my old blog for so long was my iPhone, beside my laziness. Ever since I got my iPhone back in last November, I've tried to manage possibly every little thing with my new charming toy - iPhone(I'd love to play with it anything possible!) and that attitude certainly made me slowly getting being away from my PC. Lately, I even feel like just opening my little laptop is too much!!

So here I found a great solution!

Of course my smart buddy Ms. iPhone can help me to post to my blog, can't she? Looks like she can!! See, I can take the pics and use them for my blog, too. I'm not crazy about the quality of the iPhone pics, but I guess I'm too lazy to even take my SLR and play with the pic's software any more. So that said I have to put up with this photo quality for now. The convenience and my love for iPhone went over the photo dilemma!

Hope it works like what I'm expecting, but who knows... I haven't decided how I should coordinate with the languages between English & Japanese yet, but here I go! And see you all from my iPhone from now and then ;)





"Now I Know My ABC's"
Freebie by BBD
Fabric: Lakeside Linens, Unknown Colourway, 40ct
Fibers: CC, GA and WDW

みなさま、ご無沙汰しております。砂漠地帯は素晴らしい陽気に恵まれまして、春を満喫しております。

永らくの間、旧ブログから遠ざかっておりました理由は、怠け癖の他にiPhoneがあります。去年の11月にiPhoneがやって来て以来、どんな小さなことでも出来ることは何でもこのちっちゃくて可愛い新しいおもちゃでしようとしているのですが(何でもしたいんです、iPhoneで！)、それがだんだんとPC離れに確実に繋がって行きました。最近では、小さなノートパソコンを開くことさえもが億劫に感じるほどです。

そこで、良い解決策を見つけました。

iPhoneからもブログに投稿出来るんです。写真を撮って、その写真をブログにアップも出来ます。iPhoneで撮影した写真の質は受け入れ難いのですが、一眼レフを手にして、写真を写真ソフトで加工することすらもう面倒に思われます。ということで、利便性と私のiPhoneへの想いが写真への不満に勝った形になりました。

思うように使えると良いのですが、さぁいかがでしょう？まだ、何語（英語と日本語）にするのかも決めていませんが、取り敢えず始めてみることにします。それでは、これからはiPhoneからみなさまにお目にかかりましょう。

※ このブログでは、コメント欄を開けておくことにして様子をみたいと思いますが、失礼ながら頂きましたコメントには欧米式(？)でレスをつけませんことを予めお断りします。

-- Posted from my iPhone