Summercrafter

Ten,   Eleven,  Twelve reasons why I should buy more Fabric: 1. To build my current  stash   2. Here today, gone tomorrow. Fabric is like those cute sandals you  wanted last summer but didn't buy...  3. Support fellow crafters and designers of fabric 4. It's fat free, great for the crafty diet 5. It's another way to stimulate the economy 6. Preparedness is key (have everything you need for when you finally get around to doing a project) 7. To reward myself, I deserve it! 8. It's something I can post on my blog 9. Shopping and organizing are both stress busters 10. I have coupons!   11. Preserve and participate in the historical past time of Quilting 12. Provides low-cost entertainment

Some of my friends were just introduced to this whole blogging concept when I sent them the link to  my blog. And how do you explain it? Well, a blog is a place where people share, much like a journal, about something they really enjoy doing and connect with others who share their passion, or just really like how they write about it. :) While blogging may seem frivolous, it’s a great window of opportunity for learning, connecting, growing and sharing with a whole world of people who have something in common with you. Part of blogging success is visiting and reading the blogs of those that share some of the same passions as you and participating in their blog. For example, my pleasure is arts and crafts, and in that there is a micro-world of possibilities. So I have to dedicate time to see what people are blogging about quilts, crafts, Christmas (and all that encompasses), painting, decoupage, stamping, etc...   It’s something I really have to schedule or how else can other ...

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I really didn't think I had done so much craft supply shopping this season.  I have so many "backed up" crafts to make from Christmases past and my crafting "Hope Closet." Originally, one of the reasons I started the blog was to "make" myself craft more often because the blog would kind of "keep me accountable."  After all, potentially, I would have all these readers depending on my crafty posts, right? : ) Anyway, in my zeal, I think that I over-estimated, even with the craft blogging, how much I could actually get done! Well, December is not over yet!! And I am really itching to make some quilts--no, not bedsized quilts, the anxiety that churns over the time it takes to make somthing of that magnitude is too much.  But I have resorted to a do-able compromise. I have seen them in loads of mags. Mini quilts.   They are perfect in the form of banners, place mats, rectangles & squares for small spaces and gifts. ...

I think the color orange shouts "look at me," it's like when someone sneaks up behind you and startles you --but you are happy to see them.  Combining a color scheme in a design takes a lot of thinking, especially when I am also figuring out the design.  And while I have heard it said that quilting is time consuming, I think the planning takes the most time, it's so much math!!  The truth is, as a beginning quilter, I have yet to follow a pattern. I have "invented" my handful of projects on my own because I thought is was easier, what was I thinking?   Size about 12 x 36 inches This was my big Summer Craft for 2009 and it was my second quilting project,  they get a little bigger as my skills and confidence improve.  Each quilt usually has some new technique I haven't tried before. I have really taught myself, by reading all types of books on quilting that I have bought over the last few of ye...