 Take off the blue piece and loosely sew the red and green ones together. It’s late and I’m too tired to look up wtf it might be called.)Īfter all of the white pieces are sewn to each colored piece, lay all three in place based on the icon. (If anybody knows a proper name for this, let me know. Time to start sewing! I used a basic stitch perpendicular to the edges of the pieces I was sewing to make it look very quilt-y. Now, round off the corners, being careful not to take too much off. Once your pieces are all cut out, lay out everything on your work surface to make sure you’re happy with how it all lays. I think I’ll let my photos do the explaining for how I cut out my last set of RSS-wave shapes:
#Google reader friends full#
This is where not needing a full third 3×3″ square of white felt comes in. I referred back to the original icon a lot as I worked on this project.įor the white pieces of felt that will lay over the green felt, you can cut out even less.
The reason I did less cutting for the red piece was because you don’t see the full square when the blue square is laid over it. Draw two curved lines on the shape and cut around them to form the RSS wave shapes from the icon.įollowing a similar procedure, cut out the following shapes for the red piece of your icon. My felt came in 8.5×11″ sheets, so for the white squares of felt I needed, I cut a 3×8.5″ strip of white felt into two 3×3 squares and used the extra bit leftover as-is.Ĭut one of your 3×3 white pieces into the following shape. Since it’s the old version of Google Reader I’m commemorating here, it only seemed appropriate to replicate the old version’s icon.Ĭut one square each of red, blue and green felt in to 3″x3″ squares. If you happen to have friends totally hooked on G’reader like mine are, you should make them baby onesies or at least patches using the pattern I’m about to share.
#Google reader friends plus#
In fact, Google even acknowledges that many users may want to do this, reminding you that "if you decide that the product is no longer for you, then please do take advantage of Reader's subscription export feature." In other words, if you aren't jumping on the Google Plus train, Google is no longer interested in you.In honor of their impending baby and to commemorate the end of Google Reader sharing, I decided to make them a special little onesie (surprise, guys!). Of course Google Reader still exports OPML files, so it's not hard to dump your subscriptions and move to another feed reader if the revamped Google Reader leaves you wanting. Google likes to pride itself on its data portability, but in this case there's nowhere to take your data, making Google's export efforts disingenuous at best.
#Google reader friends software#
One was made up for Google Reader and the other is not widely used, meaning there isn't much software out there that can read your exported data. There are two options for exporting your old sharing items, a JSON Activity Stream or a custom Google Reader JSON format. There is an option to export your shared and liked items, along with a list of friends and followers, on Google Reader's settings page, but it comes with a big catch – the export format. Also gone is the list of all the items you ever shared or liked via Google Reader. That data – your list of friends and followers – is simply gone. To make matters worse Google does not offer an easy way to migrate your data over to Google Plus. If you were a heavy user of Google Reader's sharing capabilities, using it, for example, to follow friends and comment on their shared items, the revamped design is going to make you unhappy.
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