I am so predictable

I still have no time to sew but at least I'm starting to buy stuff again. For inspiration, of course.
And even though the orange/blue Heirloom that I wanted so much turned out to be pretty uninspiring and I ended up selling half of it, I really love the purple one.

So as I was filling up a flat rate envelope with some white Kona that I really needed, I decided to make room for just a little Heirloom.

I took pretty much everything in purple and no disappointment here, they are all perfect!

Plus, I couldn't help buying some more of these flowers, they really are one of the best prints I've seen lately.

But no, that;s not all. I also received the fabrics for my next babywearing products. No, no Echino, but....

How predictable am I again? :))

I probably won't have anything to show you in the next month either, as I am focusing on the babywearing products right now, so I'm wishing everybody a lot of snow and a lot of time to play with it :). Or just sun and tan, if you live on the other half of the globe :)

How some quilts work

There are times when I know exactly what I want to do. Pretty much most of the times. But there are, of course, times, when I have no idea what so ever. It happens that I have a little time i should use and no idea at all, or just love a fabric so much I just don't know what to do with it.

When I received the heilroom stash, after a lot of staring, I decided to cut some 2" strips to play with. Those 'eyes' bothered me so much that I just left it like this and moved on.

But after the cross quilt and the baby princess, I couldn't stop thinking about these colours.

 So I took all the scraps out and started using every single tiny bit. I came up with 4 almost squares. Lined them up, added more scraps, and took the difficult decision: 1 quilt instead of 4 pillows.

With the new walking foot things went really well, no pulling, no stretching with only 7 basting pins. 

[I'm really sorry for the weird colours, me and the camera we're not 100% back together :)]

I hope it's safe to say I'm done with pink for a while. I finished almost all my pink fabrics so I should be safe :). However, crazy scrappy piecing gave me more ideas so there's another one on the way :). Not pink, I swear :)

So I cut it

I'm not extremly proud of myself for the result, but I am proud I stopped staring. I know, I know, it's part of the process. Still....

The good part is that these fabrics look incredible in pictures. And that I finally managed to take nice closeups with my DSLR.

Another great part is that my too boyish boy decided to actually look at something I made and got a nice pic. Yeah, he's got long hair, but he shows no interest what so ever for anything I make. I tried closes, bags, monsters, stuffed creepy stuff... nothing. So a pic with him and a quilt became priceless here.

The not so good part is that I did not figure out how to take nice pics with the whole quilt and  I didn't do anything original. I managed to cut it and it turned out ok but... that's pretty much it.

And I couldn't get myself to quilt it zig-zag. It has 100 x 140 cm [~ 40" x 55"] and well... no thank you :).

But I did take out some Ikea angels that is only available in winter, hoping they'll make it this year too. Keep your fingers crossed or I'll be very very sorry for using it :))

Now if only I could find the blue embroidery thread that was used, sometime last week, in making some monters traps...

Now what?

This happens to me all.the.time. I dream about a fabric, or, in this case, the whole line, I wait a lot to get the funding, order, 3 weeks to arrive, 1 week in customs and when I finally have it, I just stare at it. Stare in a good way, of course :D.

I felt in love with Joel Dewberry's Heirloom from the second I saw it, before it was even released. And I knew exactly what I want. And now, all I can do is stare :)

I have about 4 quilts in mind and have no ideea where to start. And, of course, it won't be enough fabric for 4 quilts, so I have to choose. Does this happen to you too? It's killing me!