AND STILL THE QUESTION REMAINS?

I started my blog in October 2011
I have written over 400 posts.
I love it...I love to write about my favorite things. 
To share my journey with you!

I enjoy reading your comments!

I always respond - IF I CAN!

You replies show up on the blog BUT
it also comes to my email mailbox.
That is where I can reply and you can get the message.

  I hit "reply" to your comment
and if you email addresss looks like this...
<noreply-comment@blogger.com>

I CANNOT REPLY




So.....

My friend Erin, over at Sew At Home Mummy

wrote an excellent tutorial, including step by step screenshots 

  

FIX the NO REPLY BLOGGER settings!

(applies to blogger and google profiles only)

CLICK HERE!

Erin has given me permission previously to use her tutorial...  
While you are there...look around her blog is incredible!

I ask everyone to check this email setting cause
 sometimes techy twerks can happen 
and it may have changed.  


Leave me a comment here and let me know you fixed it!
If fixed..I can respond to you!
IF you don't hear from me...its not fixed!

WINNER and HEADER

Another successful Sew Mama Sew Giveaway!

This is my giveaway

4 FQs and 1/2 Yard of fabric

And the winner is....

Patty D from North Carolina

 I have received her mailing info and the 
goodies going out today!

Still getting many "no-reply blogger" comments!

Of the almost 200 comments I received

about 50 were no-reply blogger comments!
  

Want to check and perhaps fix this issue?

Try this link to Sew at Home Mummy's blog!

Erin has a step by step tutorial to show you how!

Many thanks to SewMamaSew 
for yet another great giveaway day!

HEY...who likes my new blog header?
or did you even notice?

CAPTCHA THIS

I loathe the CAPTCHA aka WORD VERIFICATION feature on blogs!  It's that annoying box that jumps up and requires you jump through a hoop to leave a comment.  Looks something like this!

2 or 3 months ago I happened to notice it was appearing on my comment sections AGAIN!!!  

WTF?  I turned this off years ago!

After useless bantering with Blogger help forums, who said the engineers made an error and "they were working on this issue".

I got tired of waiting and after some trail and error - trying this and that - I figured out how to fix it! It's the techy girl in me! 

If you use a BLOGGER platform for your blog..better check and see if what is happening in your comments.   Go leave yourself a comment on one of your blog posts.  If the CAPTCHA screen pops up....here is the fix.  

Follow the screen shot below...

In Design mode

Go to Settings

Post and  Comments

Comment Location field ... Select the option for "embedded"
Show Word Verification field - set to NO
Save your changes!

If you want to post a blog about this issue on yiur blog....just link back to my post for the instructions. I am sure many don't even realize that their CAPTCHA is on!  

Leave me a comment and tell me if your CAPTCHA was on or off and if you were able to fix it.

DOODLE BUDDY - iPad App

I often doodle a kwilt design over and over 

on paper..so it becomes en grained in my brain.

I was on vacation with some time to kill 

and no paper on hand.  I wanted to figure out a

some designs for a couple kwilts on a long arm machine.

I had my iPad with me and knew

there had to be "an app for that"!!!

SURE ENOUGH..there were several 

I downloaded the FREE app...

  "Doodle Buddy" 

It was so much fun and with the touch of my finger

I was doodling kwilting designs.

First up was a design for my plus kwilt.

I drew the grid in blue-lines were rather thick.

Changed color to red for doodling the design

and here it is. 

I found a way to change the colors

and the slide bar to make my doodling lines smaller. 

I just kept doodling, clearing the screen and

doodling over and over.

Here is the kwilting on the long arm of this design.

I also had a wonky crosses kwilt to do

so I started with crosses in blue

And did a pointy back and forth kwilting line (in pink)

  Doodle Buddy lets you save the images to 

the iPad camera roll...

which allowed me to use them in this post!

Here is a close up of the kwilting.

So if you want to practice your FMQ for your home machine

or a longarm...give DOODLE BUDDY a try!

No Reply Bloggers loose out...

I recently won this wonderful bundle of fabric from Erin at the 
"Meet My Machine" blog hop because 

the first 6 random drawn names (from comments) were 

NO REPLY BLOGGERS

I have also noticed when I have a "give away" right here on 
Kwilty Pleasures,  there are always a dozen or so of you who are 

NO REPLY BLOGGERS!

CLICK HERE to see Erin's excellent screen shots
and instructions to 
fix the NO REPLY BLOGGER settings!

Please check your settings and fix if needed, so you can 
WIN GIVE AWAYS 
and get responses from the blog owners!