Dreaming of Hand Quilting But Doing Crafty Stuff Instead So I Won't Arrive Empty Handed

Today is one of those days that I have a million things to be doing and I just don't wanna. So I played in my quilt room for awhile. Organized my box of hand quilting thread.

My stock of  hand quilting thread

Thought about trying to push through the last border of stitching on this particular quilt. Nah, not right now. Maybe this evening....

A bit of loviliness in the hoop...

I'd much rather be dreaming about doing the hand quilting on this one! There's got to be something I could do to make this quilt look magnificent.*wink

Wondering how I'll end up quilting this one...

But finally, I checked one of my little to-do items off the list. Procrastination will only work for so long. You see, there's this party tonight. Kind of an end of the year secret pal thing and we've been asked to bring a home-made gift along with our 'revealing' gift. CUE the panic. I did the Pinterest thing and rolled my eyes at all the cute little chapstick holder keychain type things. Seriously? Who keeps the necessary hardware around? Then I stumbled on this beauty: http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/69/30/af/6930af470e941244c60ae67d3e2d7e4c.jpg.

A little throw-together pillow from an orphan block and scraps...

Mines a bit more shabby chic and probably a lot more lumpy too. Somehow my pillows are never quite as stylin' as all the Pinterest pillow queens are. I thought about quilting it on the machine. Considered some funky big stitch work? Then I just kind of told myself to STOP. It's an exchange.*sigh  Why do I let myself freak out over all this crafty stuff? It's not like I'm trying to fob a macaroni necklace off on someone or something terribly lame like that....

p.s. I keep forgetting to mention it, but my mom has had another five packages trickle in during the last week or so. They are from California, Florida, Ontario Canada, Australia and even Qatar! Thank you so very much to everyone who has helped make my mom's days a little brighter.

Getting Ready For Vintage Fair

Anyone who reads my blog for any length of time knows that I have a large family, as in, I come from a large family.  When we all get together, things happen and sometimes generally, plans get made.  For all of us. Last year it was my youngest sister who came up with the grand plan for all of us girls (6 sisters, plus our cousin, and a couple sister-in-laws) to have a booth at the Vintage Fair.  Oy vey.

The rustic, yet strangely modern pillow look

It's time.  The Vintage Fair is this weekend.   And of course I have procrastinated about and focused in on other more important things like Quilty Stuff.  What to do?  What to do?

The up-cycled half apron

Yesterday I was scrounging around and came up with some burlap to make some funky carry-all bags and a few very rustic, throw together pillows.  The aprons (all three of them) I actually worked on last summer!  Can you believe my fore-thought?  hehe  I'm still not sure why I sacrificed one of my vintage Sunbonnet Sues to put on something that will no doubt end up with grease splatters though....

The weird bag collection

My sisters all encouraged me to make quilts, sew funky things and they would all SELL, SELL, SELL.  I spent a little time last summer working on the great idea, you know, while I was still excited and thinking optimistically.  I spent some time one day puting applique on a stray bag.  I spent another day up-cycling aprons.  Cool!  I spent hours planning out my crafty plan of attack and then, pop! goes my bubble.  It's just strangely unexciting for me to be sewing up all this craftiness stuff and you and I both know I'll never get any real money selling quilts.  So, I changed up my plans a bit and started poking through 2nd hand stores occasionally for cheapy vintage/antique things to re-sale.  Stick a price tag on and wah-lah! I can go back to quilting without any pressure to make stuff other people might or might not buy.  Ah, the relief...  A Vintage Fair is just a high priced yard sale/up-cycled holiday bazaar anyway!  They are great fun to go to and my sisters are the most creative people around, so our booth is going to do wonderful, especially after they sneak my stuff off to the back corners.:)