Well, I never expected to have a blog and yet here I am, with a blog. As it says when signing up for Word.Press, Hello world! I never seem to have enough opportunity to talk quilting, so I’ll let my obsession spill over here.
First, what do I do? I make handmade table runners and wall hangings. I used to make bed-size quilts, but I really don’t do that any more. I have some arthritis, and the big quilts are just too big to maneuver any more. And those are harder to market, because people want fabrics to match their color schemes. Smaller pieces just seem to be easier to make, to match and to sell.
Choosing fabrics is the best part, and that’s where the obsession part comes in. I just hate to see homeless fabric. I find a pattern that I just fall in love with, and have to match it to other fabrics. Naturally, I bring home a yard here or a yard there. So I make my handmade table runners and wall hangings just to avoid being inundated with fabric! Selling them keeps me from drowning in fabric.
Sometimes, I get home and decide that one or another fabric won’t really work together, then I go to my stash. I’ve spent a number of years building up a respectable backlog of fabric, and subscribe wholeheartedly to the bumper-sticker philosophy of “She who dies with the most fabric wins.” There’s just something so tactile and satisfying about working with fabric — choosing patterns and colors that “walk” or move gracefully from one to another, cutting them up into little pieces and sewing them back together. I’ve heard that described as a particular form of insanity. If so, count me in. 
June 13, 2009 at 1:46 pm |
If you substitute “fabric” with “yarn”, then you have the same insanity in my bedroom. I have no idea why I insist on buying yarn that’s on sale cheap when I already have bags full of it that I haven’t used.
Anyone who does crafts knows there is no such thing as working on only one craft at a time. It is about having about a kajillion crafts going on at the same time. Those who don’t do crafts see this as insanity. Those who do crafts see this as therapy.