...it just feels like that sometimes. And I have been doing some making, but not nearly as much as I'd like given most of my spare time has been taken up sleeping and trying to sort out what used to be my sewing room. Woe is me, it's been relinquished to the foetus codenamed Wolf. It was always going to be that way and as a result I never really felt like the room was mine, but I did manage to make an almighty mess of it and pack it full of crap. So many a weekend has been spent procrastinating and sorting through said crap (bank statements from 1999 anyone?), throwing things away, figuring out what I want to keep, and what needs to go. I think there will be no surprises when I say that I have an excess amount of fabric - I'm quite amazed at how my taste has changed over such a relatively short time but that may be because of the influence of the blogs I've come to love over the years, and the fact that younger people are now being catered for in the craft-y community. Anyway, I have some serious volumes of more "traditional" fabric and will be sorting it in to groups for sale somehow (probably on ebay???). Most of it is either fat quarters or 20-30cm widths, but nearly all have been used to some extent - often only a 2" square or something random has been cut out of it, but cut none the less. Anyway, it is far too good to throw away, I can't see myself using any of it in the immediate future, and I'm reluctant to give it away when potentially people out there will pay for it (and if truth be known I've spent far too much money on stuff I haven't used). Is selling by weight OK? Any suggestions? I'm thinking of possibly putting groups of fabric together in 500g or 250g lots or something.
Anyway, I have been doing some making and put this together for a friend who just had a baby girl:
Hmm, not fantastic pics, but I'm sure you get the idea. I copied the idea from here, and I used 4.5" squares which makes me slightly less copycat-esque, but only marginally so (and I don't think it would stand up in court). It didn't actually take as long as I expected, and I'm pretty happy with the result. The back is nice too I think, and I did the fabric strip as long as the newborn trick (56cm!!! - she was a whopper) with her name and vital stats stamped on it. The one pic I took of the back is really bad so I'll see what I can get sorted this weekend and post it to flickr if it's OK.
Possibly the best thing about it, and this was the first time this has ever truly happened, this quilt was made entirely with stuff I already had in the stash, which as one very clever person I know once put it means it was "technically free". Fabric, batting, thread - the lot. Yeah for that. The funny thing was I actually have a mini stock pile of quilts for baby girls but I knew the mum of this one wouldn't love any of them, so what was I to do? I think (hope) she'll like this one.
Love the quilt and particularly the idea about the strip on the back - very good idea.
I share your pain about sorting out the craft/junk room. I think I have all my mobile phone bills from when I first got a phone. I guess that is 1997 or thereabouts?? Crazy! (even crazier, I still have them! Really must throw them out...)
Posted by: Rose Red | September 10, 2008 at 03:40 PM
Oooo I really like it. Can you post some piccies of the back?
Posted by: Bianca | September 10, 2008 at 07:31 PM
"a stash of quilts" I mean WHO HAS A STASH OF QUILTS! Stop it crazy pregnant woman!!! BTW lovely looking quilt :)
Posted by: nicole | September 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Beautiful! I second what Nicole said. Love that it was "technically free" and I adore the strip of fabric on the back- what a brilliant idea!
Posted by: di | September 23, 2008 at 09:46 PM
That quilt is gorgeous.
Lovely to meet you last night, and thanks for my Cloth goodies - I feel very spoilt.
Posted by: suzy | October 10, 2008 at 07:12 PM