I've blogged for a little over a year now and am nearing 10,000 unique visitors to my blog! However, I don't get too excited about the number of visitors. Why? Because on the internet there are so many ways (intended and unintended!) for a visitor to end up on your blog or website.

There are many free services that you can use to monitor activity on your blog: among them Stat Counter, NeoCounter, and Google Analytics. They can tell you the number of visitors, pages visited, referring websites, popular content, etc.

Top 5 internet searches that resulted in a visit to my blog:

1. Georgia O"keefe (I stated that my trumpet flower photograph reminded me of Georgia's flowers)

2. Alien Footprints (A description of a hand carved stamp).  I'm fairly certain that most of those Googling "alien footprints" were not searching for quilt-related information!

3. Textile Artist -this one makes me happy!

4. Glue Resist

5. Baby Quilt

Number of visitors to my site by country:

1. US

2. UK

3. Canada

4. India

5. Belgium

Referring websites (not counting Google searches):

1. The Quilt Show Member Blogs

2. Julie Prichard

3. Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with Needles

4. Jules Rushing

5. Janet's Fiber Artistry

I so appreciate others linking to my website.  I work hard to try and write about things that are of interest to my current and future readers.  Thanks for getting me to 10,000 visits and if you were really looking for information on extra-terrestials I hope you enjoyed you visit here!

QuiltedKathy made the cutest valentine postcards, I just had to make a few!

The pattern is from http://www.emblibrary.com

Green Cobblestones is ready to ship. This is such a simple and satisfying quilt, great for a beginner or those with little time.

It is a log cabin block that is constructed with 9 strips each.  I like that the quilting pattern makes it look as though it is more complex than it really is.

This button summarizes our collective dream.

Arlene (Ritzy), Carol (CMoellers), JoJo (LadyQuilter) and I collaborated online to create a submission for the Dream Rocket project. We have never met in person but it was easy collaborate through photos, drawings, email and kindred spirits.

Each quarter of the quilt has photographs that represent our individual communities. Unifying it all is a group of women and children. Notice how the women hand-in-hand form a star? Together we are better, stronger and wiser.

The back of the quilt contains some of our individual thoughts on the project.

A huge Thank you to Arlene, Carol and JoJo for collaborating with me on this project!  You all are awesome!

Here are previous blogs on this project:

What's your dream? (Dream Rocket part 1)

Virtual Quilt Bee (Dream Rocket part 2)

Dream Rocket Project (part 3)

We are cut from the same cloth (Dream Rocket part 4)

Square-ish is more accurate.

This is a small commission project is modeled after my Deep Summer Shade quilt.  Same basic design but smaller, less blue and more brown. 

The first step was to design in EQ6 so we could agree on the size (via email).

The second step was to review fabric choices, construct quilt, straighten edges and add border.

The third step is to quilt and finish edges. I had originally intended to quilt nice and straight, 1/4" from the seam lines.  However, once up on the design wall, the quilt wanted to be quilted in a square-ish pattern.

The pattern reminds me of cobblestones.