Hello all
Well, I need your ideas on something that is both quilting and non-quilting related, but that combines very well. Even if you are not a techie, I still need your ideas for content.
I think that most of us have an idea of what Apps are, when it comes to those little mini-programs on our smart phones and iPads/iTouch, etc. if you have one. Sort of like mini webpages without the web. They can be games, utilities, informational, etc. I am exploring the possibility of writing and proposing a contest to my National Student Group, Business Professionals of America in writing an App for presentation to a panel of judges. Before I do so though, I feel that I need to explore the process some, and the manner of accomplishing this would involve gathering content and learning a new programming language. I want to see how easy/hard this is and how long it might take to create. Have I lost you yet?
So, in the spirit of accomplishing this, I want to create something that I would find useful, so I thought about quilting. This is where all of you come in. Thinking mini-web, without massive amounts of links, but a decent amount of information that would be with you, on your cellphone or other such device, what would you want to have access too. My thoughts would be "pages" with the following info:
Quilt sizes (crib, twin, double, etc) Thread (types and what the weight numbers mean) Needles (types and what the size numbers mean) Types of marking pens
I hope you are getting the idea. It would not be instructional, but more of a reference so that if you were in the store and had to look something up, you could.
I am in the very, very beginning stages of this idea and will be meeting with a fellow teacher, and very, very techie person, to talk about this and see where to head, but I would like to have an outline in place before seeing him in July.
So, let the ideas fly. Who knows what will come of this, but I thought that I would throw it out there to see what you think. I know that it is not something that most of us would use, but if I am going to take the time to work on this, I wanted to revolve it around something fun.
Thanks
Steven Alaska