Pinteresting!
I had a very large increase in blog visitors last week and was looking at my stats yesterday to see where people had come from. A link from Pinterest leapt out at me. (It was bright red!) With only a vague knowledge of what Pinterest is, I realised someone had ‘pinned’ one of my images to a virtual ‘inspiration board’, and I followed the link to see which one.
I was astonished to find not just one of my images but a whole page on Pinterest dedicated to me!
I know, I know, some of you will have inspired hundreds of Pinterest users to fill scores of pages. But me? Well, it was quite a surprise.
It was the image above that was the subject of the link I followed. It first appeared on the blog when I had completed four long borders using a published design and was just beginning to work out a corner of my own design to pull it all together. I found the fact that this image was considered inspirational strange for two reasons.
Firstly, why choose this grubby looking work in progress when there was a whole post dedicated to the finished project, showing it in all its pristine glory?!
And secondly, because the other image from that same post has also attracted some interest during the last week, and very soon I shall have something more to show you that I’m delighted to have been a part of!
(Oh, the suspense!)
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How exciting. The colour combinations are really lovely on this piece and the workmanship. I used to embroider as a little girl and you almost give me an appetite to start again – at 67 years. Have a lovely week. Its getting warmer on the island, I see. Natalie
Hello Natalie,
Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I finished this piece – a duvet cover embellished with Hungarian style folk embroidery – in June last year. I started it around 2001 – but first bought the book that included the design around 1987! Somehow, after many years of procrastination I’m now doing lots of embroidery, and my confidence is growing all the time. If you’re inspired to start again – why not give in to it! But I wouldn’t recommend you start with something this big!!!! I’d love to hear how you get on.
Yes, warming up here on Isle of Wight. We didn’t get the snow that most of Europe and much of the rest of the UK had, but now I’m ready for spring.
It is so beautiful. My mother (yesterday she celebrated her 93 birthday) made these. So when seeing this one I got a vision from the past.
Happy Monday!
I’m very happy to have been of service! Belated Happy Birthday greetings to your mother – and wishing her Many Happy Returns of the day.
Sometimes a work in progress is more inspiring than a finished piece. Perhaps they were inspired by your work on developing a section of your own to go with the published piece?
Who knows?! Maybe the work in progress snippet seemed more achievable than the twenty-five-years-from-concept-to-completion finished item!
how exciting! It is an amazing work of art, congratulations again. If you don’t mind I’ll pin the completed project on my board. let me know.
Very happy for you to do that, Kaye.
Congratulations! I just came back from the pinterest page. Its you everywhere!!! How exciting. You’ve got some real fans around the world it seems.
Love this piece Janice. By the way, when I moved home, I searched everywhere for the angel. It was no where to be found. What a bummer.
Are you on pinterest? I’d love to follow you. I am.
I’m not on Pinterest. I have a wallet file stuffed with little pictures torn out of magazines that I call my ‘Inspiration’ file. I am just SO 20th Century!
I have been thinking about it over the past couple of days though, since I noticed that you can categorise your images by creating different ‘boards’. We need to redo a bathroom and it would help to gather together some images to help me work out what I’d like. Particularly since the gentleman of the house and I have quite different tastes.
Oh! I just found your Pinterest via your blog, and see you want (more than anywhere else?!) to be in my summer house!!!!
Why should you be surprised? You are so multi-talented! I’m sure you have millions of fans
I’m not quite sure if I understand pinterest, I’ve been hearing a lot about it though and heard I was pinned but I thought.. oh what does that mean?