The shop is back!

My Etsy shop has reopened so check it out! New items will be added soon...

Evening

A quiet evening ahead, starting with a hot bowl of chili (yum!) and a stack of hexies to sew.

Some internet browsing for admired Etsy items...

GlowbowlsiPod case
linen necklace

Lists

Are you a list maker? It's sort of absurd how much I enjoy making lists. I have a ridiculous amount of notebooks, all with old "To Do" lists, lists of fabric to get, books to read, etc.

This was today, fueled with plenty of iced coffee and homemade chocolate chip cookies:

1. Post office to mail off stuff to Leanne, Greta, and Laura, my lucky giveaway winner!
2. Library - new beach book on hold just in time for this weekend
3. JOB SEARCHING (this may as well be written with a permanent marker)
4. Erica's quilt
5. Stuff for my shop

Hope you had a productive Monday!

Another baby quilt

...for sale in my Etsy shop! I loooove this one. Features fabric with pictures from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" Too cute!

Woohoo!

Yesterday I sold a quilt! This lovely one is off to it's new home in England.

:) :) :)

Sooooo excited! Especially since it was the one I had reservations about, design-wise.

In other news...

My sweetie has been working like a dog this week on a big case. We're talking super-late nights. Poor buddy. I don't think the dog remembers him (just kidding, honey!).

My little sis has secured an apartment for this summer here! She'll be working downtown and living in Alphabet City with a high school friend of hers. Far from me but much closer than here.

This weekend is Purl's big Customer Appreciation Day. I'm really psyched to see their new shop - the pictures look gorgeous! I'm getting paid tomorrow (YAY) and in combo with selling a quilt, I'm allowing myself a (very tiny) budget to buy a few things. AND, Leanne will be here and we're tying to meet face to face.

Have a good day everyone - the week is half over!

Materialistic moment

Behind

Sorry I've been delinquent about blogging this week! I promise I will today or tomorrow. Hints at what's to come: knitting projects, baby quilts for sale, embroidery beginnings...

Stay tuned...

Covet

OK, after this I SWEAR I'll actually get to it. But these are a few goodies I've been eyeing...

Sigh. Maybe after a few paychecks...

Techniques

As a new quilter, there are a MULTITUDE of techniques to master. At every step, there are little things to pay attention to that will add up to a pleasing final product. It's important to select fabric that coordinates (sometimes!), crucial to accurately cut (VERY important and the hardest step for me), and then layout and sewing itself. One of the more commonly used techniques in quilting is triangles and it seems that are a gazillion different ways to do them. Rachel seemed to have the most straight-forward way of doing half square triangles so I decided to do those. While my corners don't match up in all the places, I'm pretty happy with the results. At first I wasn't sure the colors would work but I definitely think a certain kind of mommy will like this:

...or maybe not. Every few minutes I go back and forth between hating and loving it.

The reason I'm working on baby quilts (no babies here and don't actually have any pregnant friends - I know, I know, I'm so young) is because I've been thinking about selling some through my shop in Etsy. I think it would be a great way to a) practice quilting - duh! b) use up some fabric since pretty soon my sweetie will go crazy with all that we have in our tiny apartment c) make some moolah (ugh, my sad little bank account!) and d) meet other great people who appreciate quilts!

But I'm *gulp* nervous and afraid no one will like them or buy them. I'm not usually an insecure person but many areas of my life are so unsettled now that the anxious monster keeps rearing its ugly heads.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Hugs?