Ah, to get home and be able to sew. After I’m finished here, of course. I’m adding a couple of homemade table runners to my etsy page and then I have a wall hanging I’m working on. The pattern is Drunkard’s Path, and I’m using some lovely vegetable fabric I found at Fieldstone House in Sidney Center. The store is out of the way, but well worth it. Last I heard, they have more than 10,000 bolts of fabric. Having just been there a month or two ago, I believe it!
It’s a day trip for me to go, but Mom and my little one and I pack a lunch and lots of stuff to keep us busy in the car. We often eat dinner out and just make a day of it. I wouldn’t go in the winter because I’m getting to be a wuss about winter driving. But the rest of the year it’s lovely.
After a trip there, I need… oh… about three months off to sew everything I can imagine standing amidst all that gorgeous, gorgeous fabric. I could get fabric cheaper, but I really want to enjoy myself when I sew. And life is too short for poor fabric. Fieldstone House has fabric from all my favorite designers, too — Laurel Burch, Hoffmann, Nancy Halvorsen, Alexander Henry — it’s a dream come true. I imagine all the wonderful table runners or wall hangings I can craft. *sigh* That’s a lot of therapy, just sitting there waiting to be washed and cut and measured and sewn and pressed.
Even just thinking about it makes me smile!
