I took a year off from blogging to focus on acquiring a new skill. Since Bluprint began as Craftsy, I have been purchasing online classes but I hadn't really joined the forum as a member. In March of 2019, I bought a year's membership with the goal of learning to free motion quilt on a domestic machine and eventually my longarm. My membership came with free forever classes and almost all the classes I enrolled in for the last year have been on free motion quilting. Bluprint has been my favorite online class delivery system and educational community.
Now Bluprint is closing and I am exploring ways to save my content, almost 10 years of classes and the accompanying resources. I have managed to collect all of the patterns I had in my library but now the task of downloading the class videos. This program looks promising, Allavsoft. For the price of a Bluprint class on sale, one can use Allavsoft for a month. Stay posted. I will be busy.
I didn't do any of their classes, but I did have lots of patterns. I downloaded the patterns over the weekend. Now to organize them on my computer so that I can find everything easily. It won't let you organize them as you download them.
ReplyDeleteSally, you are wise to download the classes now while you have plenty of time. I am not happy with the lack of warning Bluprint gave when they announced that purchases would be suspended...was it even 48 hour notice? I have been concerned they will the purchased classes with equally little forewarning, not giving us adequate time to download them.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, I am very sad that 6 downloads of my annual subscription are yet unclaimed and must now remain so. The (lack of) communication about this was disheartening. It was a really great subscription, and it's very unfortunate that Bluprint has closed.