The internet has slowed down to a crawl this week, so I guess I’ll take the cue too and sign off till Sunday. I just finished the one and only thing I managed to make this Christmas season — this yo-yo wreath. What do you think? Too much? Not enough? Just right? I’d like to [...]
Hey all! We’re sure you’re here looking for our interview with Meg McElwee of Sew Liberated on the occasion of her new book from Interweave Press of the same name. We’re experiencing some engineering difficulties, so please sit back, relax, visit the duty free shop, don’t storm the counter … we’ll be boarding as soon [...]
2009 was sure a fantastic year for craft books, wasn’t it? Over the next two weeks we’ll be running reviews of all the recent textile and pattern-related titles we could get our hands on. You might notice that we will be linking profusely to Amazon. As you might know, we receive a small commission if [...]
Just a quick note to point you here: Sondra of Contemporary Cloth turned the tables and interviewed me. She is also offering a special coupon code for True Up readers: 25% (!) off your order (10-20% off fiber artists) with code trueup now through Friday, October 9. And you can sign up for the CC [...]
Thought I’d pop in and (re-)introduce myself — you’ll be seeing more contributions from me here on True Up, and some people like to know who it is what’s talkin’ to ‘em. So hello! I’m Mary Beth. When last we spoke, I was waxing rhapsodic about my Quilt Market fabricoma and giving you peeks at [...]
One year ago today, on Tax Day, I launched True Up. I can’t believe it’s been a year already and that I’ve managed to write posts nearly six days a week! I’m not doing anything fancy to celebrate, no big giveaways or announcements (though there are plenty of those in store for the future). I [...]
True Up has been featured in a few places recently. In case you missed it: Sew Mama Sew named True Up a “Site We Love” (I love you back!) and did an interview with me. I knew Sew Mama Sew was big, but I didn’t know HOW big — all my site traffic records were [...]
Quilt Market was a big opportunity for me to increase the True Up audience, so I ordered 500 business cards from Overnightprints.com to help promote the site. I was going to challenge myself to get rid of all of them. Unfortunately, I waited too long to place the order, which forced me to have them [...]
Happy Halloween, folks! I’ll be back next week with more Quilt Market reports — I haven’t even touched Westminster/Freespirit yet, and I’ve also got a post about the process of buying fabrics at Market with Diane of Bee Square Fabrics. Above is a tiny peek at next year‘s Halloween fabrics from Alexander Henry. Below, Trick [...]
Sale Alert Sunday and The Daily Swatch are on vacation this week so I can concentrate on Quilt Market recaps. I’ll still be putting extra-noteworthy sales up on Twitter, though.
I am now accepting advertisers on True Up. Please check out the available ad sizes and download the rate sheet. Your ad will reach thousands of fabric and textile fans/addicts and support my continued efforts to share fabric news and inspiration six days a week. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. [...]
I’ve started a Twitter account for True Up to give me a place for quickie posts, sale alerts that can’t wait till Sundays, and not-strictly-fabric-for-fabric’s-sake topics. Follow me if you’re a Twitterer too. I’m using the WordPress plugin Twitter Tools to create a daily weekly digest post of my tweets (Twitter posts) here on the [...]
I’m currently on vacation in San Francisco, CA and looking forward to visiting all the textile points-of-interest (any recommendations?). So no posts until late this week. See you then!
Over the weekend I switched to a new design, based on the Bogart WordPress theme by Jim Mitchell. My original design looked horrible in most browsers other than my own (yeah, I neglected that cross-browser testing thing), the images were too small, and it wasn’t compatible with standard web ad sizes. This theme is along [...]
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