Rachel "Ivy" Clarke

So I overcame the obstacle of the shrunken fabric and the too-short quilt block. I even overcame the obstacle of finally finding a good grey color that I wanted to use for sashing.

Then came the obstacle of the website crash. "Less internet, more art" indeed.

Blocks E and F have been done for almost 2 weeks, and I was all ready to write up a little blurb about them and post some photos. I went out of town for a few days, and then when i came back last Monday I tried to run a Drupal ugrade and the whole site went kaput, well beyond my scope of knowledge to fix. I put in support ticket, and while the ITards are polite and eventually did get the backup restored, it took almost 5 days to do so. That's 5 whole days with no access to my own website. Now I know I'm not a big popular muckey-muck or anything, but I just didn't realize how much I used my own site until it wasn't there anymore. Heck, I couldn't remember the URL for the quiltalong because I always just use the link I posted in the sidebar!

Anyway, what ended up saving the site was to wipe it clean and reload it from a backup. Thankfully I myself had made a local backup just before attempting the upgrade. My service provider backs up everynight, but by the time they bothered to get around to addressing my ticket, it had been more than 24 hours and so their backup only contained the error site, and not anything useable. So if there's a moral to this story kids, it's that it paids to be radically self-reliant, as well as a bit paranoid, and take personal responsibility for backing up all your own data. Go do it now.

Once you've backed up all your stuff, you can look at my pictures of Blocks E and F:

I have an older project (I realized yesterday that it's almost 5 years old, eep!) in the queue that I'm finishing up--I just couldn't justify quilting the Mod Quiltalong before I finished that one. Hopefully I can bind that today or tomorrow and then movealong to quiltalong.