I have several. They seem to come in waves. It started with sewing, then hoarding fabric, fashion magazines, buying too many sequins, owls, discovering make up videos on YouTube, buying make up, nail polish videos, buying nail polish, finding and reading blogs, Pinterest. And now the most intense of all addictions has hit me… QUILTING.
I don’t know why it has never hit me before. As a person who loves to sew clothing I never thought much of quilting. I mostly thought of the more traditional quilts with dark uninteresting prints. I never ever thought quilting was what it is, which is amazing.
How it all started. I had a newborn who was constantly nursing. I spent hours and hours a day sitting on the couch surfing the internet waiting and waiting for something to entertain me! I may have spent a lot of time on Pinterest. One day my friend pinned a quilt. I thought hey that’s kind of nice maybe I could do that.
I went searching for a place we could learn to quilt. I found Spool of Thread. I took one look at their website and had to go. They had these cute little sets from Heidi Boyd that I wanted to get my hands on. I don’t have my own car and my husband was out of town so I made my parents take me there and out for poutine … Mmm poutine. Ok back on track! The store is beautiful, I want to live there, it showed me what quilts could be. They combine all that I love sewing, surface design, fun printed fabric and warmth.
I started scouring Pinterest for quilts,
I discovered Vancouver has a modern quilt guild, I looked at most of the members blogs (to shy to join yet), I subscribed to Fat Quarter Shop on YouTube and finally I saw this video.
My mind was blown. I became a full on addict. I needed more I spent all of my computer time obsessing over Tula Pink and her fabric. Where could I see them all, how could I get my grubby little hands on them, what would I make with them, how could I make prints as nice as hers, colour ways as beautiful. I could not contain my energy I was FRACKIN OUT. It was like some sort of illegal substance was coursing through my veins. I needed more quilt and I needed them stat!
Does anyone else get like this? No it’s just me? Ok well here is one little worry of mine. I am addicted to quilting but I have never ever quilted. What if I don’t like it. I don’t want to be one of those quilters who just looks at quilts, I guess that would just be a person and not a quilter at all. I must be a quilter!
I will be back with ideas on my first project that will turn this person into a quilter!
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