Did you see who is here today? Katy from I'm a Ginger Monkey! She even wrote her own intro--love that! Thanks, Katy.
Hello - I'm Katy and I blog at www.ImAGingerMonkey.blogspot.com. I've been quilting for about 4 years now and am 1/5th of modern quilting e-zine (or digital magazine) Fat Quarterly (www.fatquarterly.com).
Along with the other guys from FQ we have our first book coming out in
May with Lark books, called Fat Quarterly Shape Workshop, which is
crazily exciting and more than a little bit scary! I live in the UK with
my husband, our 2 children, 2 fat cats and a pain in the butt chihuahua
puppy. Thank you to Cindy for having me on the blog today!
Do you have your own copy of this issue? Paper piecing is popping up everywhere. This is a great issue! And I definitely have my copy of The Fat Quarterly Shape Workshop preordered.
How did you choose the name for your blog?My blog name was originally my name on a parenting forum when my youngest was a baby. I'm not a ginger monkey, but he is. Not a real life monkey, but a ginger boy who happens to be a little monkey. Although in actual fact, he's always been pretty good. My blog header has been 'Monkey Do' for a good few years, but the URL remains I'm A Ginger Monkey.
Were there other names you considered, and can you share any of them with us?
This quilt possibly has one of my all-time favorite names: Technicolor Yawn, aka Scrap Vomit.
No
- there were never any other names, it was always going to be I'm A
Ginger Monkey, my twitter, my flickr and my blog are all that same name.
I like the continuity!
Now that you are recognized by your blog name, are you happy with it, or do you wish you could change it to something else?
I've
been Ginger Monkey for so long now I can't imagine being anything else.
It doesn't necessarily make any sense, but I can't imagine being called
Katy Quilts or something that makes more obvious sense. I sometimes
find myself confused by blog names and who is who if they have a name
similar to someone else. I'm a ginger monkey - I am, or at least, I'm
not, but I haven't found anyone else with a similar name, and people
tend to remember it, which is always useful! I can hide behind the name,
it doesn't have my name in the title, it's not necessarily me (although
it is me, obviously!) and if I were to wake up one morning and decide I
hated quilting (never going to happen, but you know what I mean!) my
blog name doesn't reflect anything that I make. I can blog about any old
thing and the name still fits.
Katy just announced that she will be teaching English Paper Piecing at Sewing Summit in October. As she says, EPP should be taught by someone who is English, right?
Thanks, Katy, for playing the Name Game today. It was such a pleasure to have you here!
If you aren't already reading Katy's blog regularly, please go over and say hi, and spend some time looking around. These is a LOT to see!
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February 23, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Thanks Katy - and Cindy.
I'm a Ginger Monkey is certainly a catchy blog name. I've been a faithful reader of hers. Such inspiration.
I love Katy's blog and this is a wonderful interview!
I always wondered why she was a brunette ginger monkey lol
She really is one of the bestest x
thank you Cindy!!!!
I love this series on how people come up with their blog names. Thanks!
this is fun...love how we all pick our blog names... thanks for this entertainment and inspirations!
karen
Love Katy :-)
I am another faithful reader of Katy's! Just bought my first issue of her E-zine to read on my VC. These ARE fun to read Cindy! Enjoy your retreat!
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