Remember,
Amateurs built the Ark.
Professionals built the Titanic!
I have a question for my readers. Over at Lumberjock's I asked on one of their forums if anyone there would like to share /swap intarsia/scroll patterns. I had explained that I needed this to be done through the postal service as I only have a printer/copier. In other words I can not get anything to print out on my computer from the computer. I also said I have a ton of patterns, both kinds I would be willing to copy and send to anyone if they would like them. I offered to pay postage, but what I was really hoping was that it would be more of a give and take without counting pennies. I happen to know that it takes a lot of papers in a manilla envelope for the expense to get to just $5.00.
I only asked this a couple of days ago. I have received a couple responses, but for some reason I thought I would get more.
My question to my readers is this. Did I cross the line by asking for something, for essentially free? There are a lot of places to get patterns on the internet for free, I just can't get them due to my printer. Does money really talk in a situation such as this? I also posed the same question on twitter with only one response and that was from someone asking what intarsia patterns were?
I would never ever be intentionallly disrespectful, but did I come off that way? I would love to get some reply's on this!
Thanks
Allison of Wood Alley
I was e-mailing someone not long ago and I had mentioned Google Alerts. In doing so I realized this person did not know what I was talking about so I posted the following on Lumberjock's a woodworking community I belong too. I got such a wonderful response that I just thought I would post it here. I am simply copying and pasting what I wrote there. Too lazy I suppose to re write the whole thing again. LOL!!
The outcome is the same.
I do not know if a lot of LJ’s folks use Google, but I just wanted to share something with you all in case you were not aware of it. When you have a Google account, you also can sign up for Google alerts. When I first learned/owned/used a computer less than 3 years ago, I wanted to find wood working sights, along with patterns etc. So I signed up with Google alerts and wrote the words intarsia and scrolling. I immediately was bombarded with intarsia and scrolling sites. The problem was intarsia is a form of knitting I guess, (or sewing, in that category) and scrolling has a zillion different ways the word is used, from scrolling a page etc. LOL!!! Anyhow I changed those two and added woodworking with both words. To this day I still receive my google alerts. It was through these alerts that I found Lumberjocks! So I just thought I would pass this along in case you were not aware of it. I have also used this for free woodworking patterns. Just make your alert for free woodworking patterns (or be more specific, say intarsia, or fretwork, etc) I also love to crochet and found hundreds of free crochet patterns and crochet sites by doing this.
Just be more specific than I was my first time. LOL!!! It is a pretty cool way of searching for things without searching yourself, instead of you going to look for the sites, the sites are brought to you to choose from. You also can say how many times a day/week you want to be alerted.
I hope this helps someone, and Happy Surfing!
PEACE!!!
I hope this post helps other wood workers out there that may not be on LJ's (Lumberjock's)
Since you are here, why not check out my older posts by simply clicking "Older Posts" above, and on the right side bar is my curiosity poll, which only requires one click. I really am interested in finding out what the male/female ratio of visitors are on a woodworking site!
Thanks and Peace
Allison, A.K.A. Wood Alley
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