I Just Can't Do It

So I'm not going to lie-owning a fabric store has it's perks...I play around with a lot of fabric a lot of the time! I was pretty excited to start making clothes for my kids and even myself...well let me just say... I SUCK AT IT! Maybe I'll get enough courage to show some of my "what the heck was I thinking projects" maybe

I don't know what it is, but I've come to the conclusion that I'm sick or going "huh" and seam ripping and trying things on that don't fit-I have a weird body shape. So I'm going back to making what I love-interiors....quilts, blankets, pillows, curtains...all home dec items...I'm going to let over people make the children's cloths and I'll make the home dec :)

This made me think about how there are just so many different crafty things that are geared towards so many different people and that's part of what I really love about the handmade movement.

Ok so I'll be back tomorrow to show you some of things I've been working on this past week.

I'm a Cheater

So I decided that I wanted to join the Farmer's Wife Quilt-A-long over HERE. Basically you follow along in The Farmer's Wife Sample Quilt book and make 111 blocks-2 per week. Well the only downside to this is that the blocks are each just 6"x6"-talk about small pieces-then when talking with a customer yesterday I decided that I would make my blocks 12"x12" and just have a few quilts out of it. My purpose of participating is to learn how to do all of the quilt blocks and personally I think I will enjoy them more and they will fit into my personal style more if they are large. So yes you can call me a cheater I'm ok with it.

Also if you want to hop on the wagon and participate in the quilt-a-long I have the books avail in the store for purchase.

These are my first two blocks....I'm also a bit behind since the group is on week 5 I believe but I'll catch up soon!

Magic and a Confession

So it's not really true magic but I think it's pretty neat....I've always read about other people having idea boards and I've never really thought about doing one, but then I began to get frustrated with having to move my projects around when space ran low and I decided to jump on board. There are so many different ways to do this and different materials to use-some people use batting, insulation sheets, flannel or a few other things I can't think of off of the top of my head. I decided to use flannel because I'd be able to reuse it without having to worry too much about the size I cut-with batting I feel like you would have to work off of a standard quilt size to make it truly functional.

As you can see all you have to do is hang it and it's ready to go, the quilt squares "stick" to it and you can play around with the design and are able to step back and look at it from a distance-which is a big plus for me.

Ok on to the confession.....I think I'm a pink person! I know this isn't a bad thing so fellow pink people don't take offense but I've never seen myself as a "pink person". But along with owning this store comes the realization that I must be. I tend to order a lot of pink, I do projects in pink and am currently working on a grey and pink quilt-see above pink for the start of the quilt(oh and thanks to Kelly over at Project: Cottage for the inspiration to do a zig zag quilt. Yet however I don't dress in pink, don't really buy a lot of pink for my daughter and am not doing her room in pink-atleast that's not the plan right now, but I really don't have a plan for it. So yes I guess I now consider myself a "pink person" hmmmmmm......

Oh I almost forgot-have you ever dropped something on your toe and it hurt so bad that you thought you were going to throw up? If it's happened to you-you totally know what I mean-those of you that don't, I hope you never do. Yeah happened to me today-I bought this pegboard to hang patterns a new way and really didn't expect it to be that heavy when I dropped it-not fun.

Call Me Crazy, Call Me Lazy, Call Me What You Want

I've had this quilt pieced together for awhile now and Sat when a customer of mine came in and was putting together a few fabrics in here I became re-inspired to finish this. I love the combination of colors and patterns and the simplicity of the quilt. I did a simple quilting on it and am beginning to realize that I prefer straight lines and simple quilting on my pieces-I guess that means I have a style of quilting! Yeah for me.

Anyways I decided to zigzag stitch the edges together before binding and about halfway through I started to admire the zigzag and decided that I'm not going to bind it...not sure if this just makes me lazy, but I want to see how it washes and if I still like it....if not then I'll just add a binding. If I do like it...who knows maybe I'll just do all of my quilts this way.

Anyone else know of anyone that does this? Do you think I'm crazy????