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| Received in swap round 1 - thanks Christina! |
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| Made for swap 1 |
I really enjoyed rounds 1 and 2 of the Schnitzel & Boo Make a Quilt, Make a Friend swap, so I didn't want to leave myself out of this one. Plus this one is on Instagram and not the usual blog/Flickr platforms, and I wanted to see how that would work in comparison to the last two swaps. There has been a lot of talk on Instagram taking over from blogs and some people trying to cut down on social media are avoiding Facebook and deleting Flickr accounts in favour of Instagram. A really good blog post looking at this is Whipstich's I thought it might be Instagram but it looks like its your phone's fault.
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| Made for round 2 |
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| Received in swap round 2 - thanks Lisa! |
I like Instagram. I like the simple picture format and the back and forth one line banter - seems to me a bit of Twitter and a bit of Flickr combined. I miss the longer discussions though and for me still prefer the blog. I've been on Flickr since 2008 and have a bit of an emotional attachment to it! And I like big pictures. I have a large smartphone Galaxy Note 2 and still would prefer to see bigger images but Instagram is not designed for PC. Sure I can do the pinchy thing and zoom in but I sometimes feel like I'm missing out on something on Instagram. So many hashtags, so many images in my feed and I only follow 180 people. Is that too many? Swaps and de-stashes seem to happen and I've blinked and missed them. Do I need to be more selective?
Anyway, I'm jumping in with both feet this time around to see what happens and this is my mosaic for my swap partner as inspiration. I normally try and pick 16 likes and do a 4 x 4 to give a good selection but conscious of this going on IG I made it 3x3 so they wouldn't be too tiny - change in format is already having an influence on me and my decisions!
Still I'm looking forward to another mini quilt swap. The social nature of sharing in progress and making with a secret partner in mind is great fun regardless of platform. I will keep you updated of progress here on the blog and on IG and for old times sake I'm posting to Flickr too!
In the spirit of being social I'm linking up to Lorna at
Thanks for posting your thoughts on IG and Flickr. It does seem that IG has taken over Flickr; there is not much activity over there. I love Flickr! I take pictures with my camera... for the life of me I can't figure out how to easily move them to IG so I hardly ever go there. Stumped.
ReplyDeleteHi Heather, I take photos with my camera too. I set the format in the menu to 1 x 1 as IG likes square photos and then I upload them to dropbox. I can access them then in IG on the phone through the gallery/dropbox menu and add them in to my IG feed. I can't get decent shots with my phone! Ruth
DeleteI did round 1 and I'm doing this round too but I'm really stuck as my partner is a bit intimidating! You can look at certain instagram pages (instagram.com/user) on computer but sadly it's not quite the same as having the stream. I am always missing sales and stuff on there as I follow over 700 people :S
ReplyDeleteI just can't get into Instagram. I do follow some people and I'll look at it maybe once a week, but the format doesn't appeal to me. I also hate typing on my phone, I really struggle with it. I much prefer blog interaction with explanations as well as pretty pictures.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you and will stick with my laptop and blogs. Lots of information, lots of tutorials, lots of photos. Just what I want.
ReplyDeleteI'm sticking with my laptop and blog. Don't want to get too bogged down with so many social media applications. I can't keep up now with Facebook, Twitter, and reading all the blogs I want to.
ReplyDeleteI've only recently started blogging. I can't imagine trying to keep up with people on instagram. I would like to do some swaps somehow. Somehow I seem to miss them and hear about them when they are done.
ReplyDeleteInteresting post, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I haven't got into instagram yet - too much to do already and I fear i would spend all day checking my phone instead of talking to real people! But you are right that there seems to be a lot of fun stuff going on there as well.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lovely mosaic you've made :-) I do like instagram when people stick to the craft photos, but I don't really want to see photos of food or cats! It is quick to scroll through though :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you ruth for linking to my little forest. So many beautiful Mini quilts! x Teje
ReplyDeleteLove the hand quilting on your mini Teje!
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