How To Make A Custom Blog Signature...No HTML Codes

Every once in a while we all want to tweak our blogs and add something new or pretty. What's my biggest criteria for adding something...Easy Peasy!!

I have always wanted to add a custom signature to my blog, but wasn't sure how to make one and also didn't want to fool around with HTML codes.

Here's my solution for a signature...add it as a PICTURE on each post. I know that can be a pain adding it each time, but I'm always adding pictures any way...so what's one more.

Here's a quick tutorial to make your own...

Sew Darn Crafty Linky Party...Week 66

Some of us love to craft, cook, sew, quilt, scrapbook, garden, blog, embroider, paint, decorate etc. Some do just one thing and some can do everything. What's the most important thing of all...when you share your talents here! Lol

I love it when you share and I can't thank you enough. Sharing is what bloggers have in common. It brings us all together into one big world wide group of friends.

So, let's see what all our friends have been up to.  

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If you're NEW to Sew Darn Crafty, then grab a cup of something tasty, sit back and join in on the fun (starts Sunday and lasts all week long here at Sew Many Ways).

If you want to add the button to your blog's side bar or your list of parties that you're in each week...Click HERE for a tutorial for adding a button

WHAT IS A LINKING PARTY...

I subscribe to a linking service, which provides the ability to link thumbnail pictures on my blog. The picture is a link that other bloggers provide to share their projects.

Two things can happen at a linking party...looking and/or linking

• you can be greatly inspired by wonderful projects, ideas or vacation pictures (looking) and/or
• you can share what you've been up to (linking)

If you want to be inspired by all the great ideas...just click on a picture and it will take you to that post from a wonderful blogger who was willing to share her thoughts and ideas.

HOW AND WHAT TO LINK TO THE PARTY...

Sew Darn Crafty is all about YOU!! Show off your projects, share a tutorial, show us your vacation pictures, share a family favorite recipe...share anything. Not only does linking inspire us all, it also brings lots of new people to your blog for a visit. Click here for past parties and lots of inspiration

Easy steps to join in on the fun...

• link up to the specific project post, not your whole blog. Makes it easier to link right to that post and not  search through all your entire blog. To find the http address to a specific post, just click on the Title of your post. Copy and paste the address that's at the top of your computer into the linky steps.
• link as many projects as you'd like...old or new
• anything goes...cooking, sewing, knitting, crafts, organizing, remodeling projects, vacations, parties etc...
• visit other links to share some blogging love! You know we all love comments!
• linking is open til Saturday night, so plenty of time to join in
• just click the blue "click here to enter" button below and follow the easy steps

Have fun linking up! Don't forget to come back and take a look at all the great projects during the week

~Karen~

Give Away Winner...

Thank you all for entering the wonderful give away sponsored by Vicki, from Hand Dyed Fabrics. The give away is closed, but if you're stopping by here for the first time, please visit her Etsy Shop for a fabulous selection of fabrics.

Click HERE to visit Vicki's site.

The winner of the give away is #36...

Shirley C from the blog Shirley C 

Click HERE for a visit to Shirley's blog. Congratulations Shirley. I'll send your info onto Vicki

Thank you all again,
~Karen~

Find a Friend Friday...

Happy Friday everyone!! Fridays are not only great because it's the end of the work week, but it's also time to find a new blog friend!!

We are always stumbling on new blogs when we are clicking from one to the next. We all get lost in blogging and forget where we were going or what sites we've been to, but the goal is to find wonderful, interesting blogs and the people behind them. Well, you can find all that in one place...right HERE!!

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If you are new to Find a Friend Friday (FaFF), you are in for a treat! It's a simple linking party to add a link to your blog so friends, old and new, can stop by and visit.

It's great to share your blog with everyone, but it's also fun just to look around. Even if you don't have a blog, you can find a wealth of great people willing to share their talents.

Tell your blogging friends about the linking party too and more will join in with us!

This is an easy one to participate in...you are just linking to your own blog. No projects to sew, no furniture to paint, no cookies to bake or pictures to take. You are just sharing your blog and then friends will stop by for a looksy.

• click on the blue "click here to enter" link below
• copy and paste or just type in your blog address...example: http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com
• enter title of link...your blog name or phrase to grab attention
• add a photo of you, your profile picture or your blog button or whatever you think will grab some one's attention...(I'm thinking a picture of a big piece of strawberry cheese cake, but that just me LOL)

That's it...super easy. Just think of the possibilities of finding some wonderful blogs.

Thanks for participating,

~Karen~

Thoughts on Thursday...

Do you say things that "DATE" you...I slip sometimes and still say cream rinse instead of conditioner.

Remember these cream rinses from the 1970's? OMG so funny the memories.

Tame...

and Breck...

I also say dittos instead of worksheets...worse than dittos was mimeographs.

Ok, I'll stop. I'm getting OLDER as I type!  Lol

How about you? What do you say to "date" yourself?

Happy Thursday,
~Karen~

A New Sponsor and a Give Away...

I am so excited to share with you a new sponsor here at Sew Many Ways...Vicki Welsh Hand Dyed Fabrics.

I can't thank Vicki enough for joining Sew Many Ways. If you are looking for beautiful, one of a kind, hand dyed fabric, then Vicki is the person for you. When you come back to Sew Many Ways and are looking for a link to Vicki's awesome site, her button is on my right side bar. She is also having a give away for us here, so read through to the bottom!!

So, without further ado...let me introduce Vicki

Hi Everyone!

I have been following Karen’s blog, Sew Many Ways, for a long time and I am so impressed with everything she has going on here. I recently decided that it was high time that I got involved myself and I am thrilled to be a blog sponsor now.

I retired from corporate America in 2010 after spending almost 30 years as a project manager in the financial services industry. It was a great life but I am lucky to now be able to devote myself to my passions: dyeing fabric and quilting! I’ve been sewing all my life and started concentrating on quilts about 12 years ago. I started dyeing fabric in 2007 and have been hooked ever since.

The most unique thing about hand dyed fabrics is that they are one-of-a-kind creations. That said, I have hundreds of dye recipes and can create (and recreate) custom colors. I am most known for my fabric gradients (5 popular ones are shown above). These fabrics blend colors from selvedge to selvedge. I also have fat quarter packs and one-of-a-kind pieces.

Additionally, on my blog, I have a Featured Fabric Palette of coordinated “solids” and gradient that is offered at a special discounted price for a limited time.

My goal is to introduce (or reintroduce) quilters and fiber artists to the world of hand dyed fabrics. Hand dyed fabrics have a reputation for not being colorfast and, therefore, many quilters avoid them. My fabrics are processed to remove all of the excess dye and you can use them in your quilts as confidently as you do commercially printed fabrics. You can read about my process for removing excess dye here and the process is also effective with commercial prints that bleed. One recent quilter used this process on a finished quilt that bled and it got out all of the excess dye that had bled onto her white fabrics. Turquoise dyes seem to be the most stubborn and they sometimes require multiple treatments. I apply this process to any commercial fabrics I buy. I put them through the soak before they are ever placed in my stash.

For up to date information on my new palettes, new products and special sales, sign up for my monthly newsletter here.

You can find me in all these places on the web:Blog: http://vickiwelsh.typepad.com/field_trips_in_fiber/ (with lots of tutorials)

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1773771307

Google+:  https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/102451242525014965974/

Pinterest:  http://pinterest.com/vickiwelsh/

GIVE AWAY...

Now, let’s have a reward for all of you who read this entire post. What we need is a good giveaway! Visit my shop and leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite section. Do you prefer the gradients or maybe you are drawn to the fat quarter packs or stash packs. Let me know! Leave your comment by Saturday. Karen will draw a winner this weekend and the lucky person will receive their choice of a Stash Pack from my shop along with a sample of Transdoodle transfer paper from Mistyfuse

Thanks again Vicki...it means a lot to me to have you here! So very much appreciated

Good luck everyone,
~Karen