Something just for me

For a change of pace I wanted to share something that I’m working on for me. Its a nice mindless project and I’d set it aside for a few months to go bonkers on things that were for sale at the website. Last night I found myself very cold due to a mistake I had made in my blanket on our bed. Every night I remember my mistake. lol. I had wanted a blanket that was short on the sides because my husband and I get hot and cold and hot and cold, so we like to easily kick our legs out the side of the blanket to cool off without throwing the blanket off. (might be too personal, but there’s a reason I tell you this I swear!) With that in mind I made the applique quilt a bit short on the sides. I learned quite a bit from making that quilt. First off..PRE WASH EVERYTHING. I should have learned this far before this point but I was holding very stubbornly to how easy it is to cut fabric that is crisp from the store. I will sacrifice that convince and prewash.

So anyway, last night I was cold and thought about how I wished I had more room. You see because I didn’t prewash the blanket and I made it to JUST the size I wanted it to be at it shrunk. Not only did it shrink but I hadn’t taken into account people in the bed! As I was laying there a bit cold I knew I was going to need another blanket to layer for winter. That would mean I’d have to get back to work on my quilt that I started in January.

In December of 2005 I got my sewing machine as a Christmas present. I hadn’t sewn since I was living with my mom (I’m 25 now…so not TOO long, but long enough) I tore in with a ferver and caught “the sewing bug” I wanted to be good, heck I wanted to be amazing RIGHT THEN. So I bought plenty of fabrics and by March was making Snugglebug baby carriers and four different applique skirts at snugglebugbabycarriers.com We sold basically nothing for most of the year.

I slowly started to see my left over materials stack up, pile up, get hidden away in any drawer I could find…it was getting very very messy. By January 1st of 2007 I was trying to think of a good resolution. It was staring me right in the face, literally! I needed to clean and oragnize my cloth stash. I have never been the sort to throw away much of anything, but I didn’t know what to do with ALL these scraps. I decided to tackle a king size quilt for our bed. I actually had MORE than enough scraps to make this quilt but it was so much fun to sit and cut. I saw the fabrics from the very first skirt I ever made. I saw the fabrics from that custom bag I made. The fabrics from the “lovie” quilts I made my godsons. Its so great to see all these “firsts” right in front of me. So it became my 2006 “ugly” quilt. I call it ugly because I thought it would be with so many colors and no rhyme or reason. It actually isn’t all that bad and I can’t wait for it to get done.

I started on it in the winter, and then got rather bored with it rather quickly. It got set aside for a few months and I picked it up again today. It was so wonderful to look through all the fabrics from my first year of sewing again. I can’t wait until its done.

This is completed in width, now I just have to finish out the length. I’m happy with how its turning out! Can’t wait to snuggle with it.

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