SBQ: Recycling Questions
5 March 2008
I took over “The Stitching Blogger’s Question of the Week” from Jennie back in January of 2005. When I first started it I had no plans to post a question every week so I changed the name of the meme to The Stitching Blogger’s Question and then shortened it even further so that it became the SBQ.
As luck would have it, for the past three years I have had enough questions that I could post something (almost) every week. Of course, there have been weeks where the SBQ was forgotten or not posted because of things happening in my personal life, but until now I have had plenty of questions to ask my fellow stitching bloggers.
However, as I scanned through the questions this week, I realized that I currently have no new stitching questions to ask. While I could make an announcement right here and now that the SBQ is no more, I have decided to take a recycling approach instead.
I think the recycling approach to the SBQ has a couple of distinct advantages. First of all, I know that there are many stitchers who have joined the SBQ Yahoo! Group since I first started it and while I always invite people to browse through the archives and answer questions at their leisure, I am sure there are a lot of questions newer members of the group have never answered. Second of all, even if you are a long-term member of the group I am sure that there are questions that I asked in the past that you would answer differently today… I know when I look at the old questions there are some that I would answer differently than I did three years ago.
Therefore, while I am always happy to accept question submissions from members (send an email to blondelibrarian at gmail dot com if you have one), from now on I am giving myself the freedom to recycle old questions if I feel like it. While you are never required to answer the SBQ, I encourage “old” members of the group not to dismiss these questions. Instead, look at them with fresh eyes and see if you might answer differently than you originally did.
And so now, without further ado, this week’s SBQ was originally posted on January 4, 2005 and is:
After you stitch a pattern or kit, what do you do with it?
My answer to this question has not changed much since 2005: I pack-rat it away. 
However, since I answered this question the first time I will admit that I am much more amenable to giving charts and/or kits away or trading them after I finish stitching them than I used to be.
