Walsall Wonderland

I’ve been meaning to do this for nearly a year, but now I’ve actually bought my domain and my hosting package and I’m going to create my own website.

I really like to have a place to talk about sewing and knitting, and any other crafting exercise I’m undertaking, and I’ve long thought it would be nice to be a part of a handcrafting forum that wasn’t too specific. I mean I really like the Ravelry forums, but they are limited to yarn-crafts. I envision something broader in scope, and not so obscure as I’ve found most handcrafting forums to be. The other issue I’ve found with handcrafting forums is that they are sort of meant for certain locations, not an international one.

So I bought my URL, and I’ve bought a hosting package, and now I’m setting up the software I’ll need and such, and also picking a forum template. You see, I’ve found a few that I like, and I’m trying to pick between those few, and a lot of the people I’ve asked to help out are pointing towards one that, whilst it is good, is all black and white, and I feel it’s sort of oppressive. I think I’ll end up going with one that not quite so many people prefer, but that is, I think, fresher. I want some colour involved, I don’t want to be limited to a monochromatic colour palette.

It’s a big venture, for me, to try to do this all by myself when I’ve never done it before, but I think it’s going to be well worth it. I’ve got friends that are interested in joining, and hopefully they will tell other friends and so on and so forth, but yeah, I really hope it doesn’t end up being a dead-zone. It’s a bit scary to contemplate, I think purely because of how much I want this to succeed.

Anyway, I’m going to link to a pattern now, and of course I want it to relate to the subject at hand, so here’s a sewing machine dishcloth. I’m not much into dishcloths, but I like sewing machines, so I’ll go with it for today.