House Blogs: Making Friends (and Quilts) Since 2004ish
Beth here.
It’s time to put on my granny glasses and discuss how things were in the olden days, back when there were about ten house blogs, and Merideth and I updated this blog regularly because we spent every weekend covered in spackle.
During those halcyon days of 2004, Merideth became friends with Scott, who wrote about his family’s adventures with their own abode. As happy circumstance would have it, Scott and his wife Brit came to BlogHer in 2006, and we got to have them over for dinner, which turned out to be a huge mistake as we’ve been lamenting the fact that they don’t live nearby ever since.
Here’s how it goes.
Merideth: You know what would be fun?
Beth: Yes. Hanging out with Scott and Brit tonight.
M: Yeah.
B: Why don’t they live closer?
M: Whyyyyyyyyyy?
And then comes the gnashing of teeth and wailing.
There’s a point to this. I swear.
Somewhere along the way in all this house madness, I decided I wanted to make a quilt out of all of our old work jeans. And I collected all of these work jeans, and the collection grew, and finally I had enough.
Unfortunately, I had no idea how to quilt. But! Brit knew! The jeans happily traveled up north, and when Brit and Scott came for BlogHer 2008, they brought a lovely, lovely quilt with them. (Picture blatantly stolen from Brit’s flickr account. Brit, don’t hate me.)
House blogs rule. Because even when you never update, you still get to make friends and find great quilt makers.