I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I checked my email after our family egg hunt and found a little note from Cindy of Hyacinth Quilt Designs. Do you know Cindy? You should :) She's the wonderful quilter behind the wildly popular Garden Fence block tutorial, and she is such a sweet person. I made a Garden Fence quilt, using Cindy's tutorial, last year using Tula Pink's gorgeous Prince Charming fabrics.
1. If you're not quilting, what are you most likely doing?
Reading...or maybe baking. I used to spend as much time reading as I now do quilting, it was my first real hobby to speak of. It's shocking to me that I now own more fabric than I do books, since my book collection was always something that seemed overflowing and humongous to me. I do definitely still read, but these days I mostly read e-books on my Kindle. Baking is another fun hobby of me, that I've been doing my whole life. I love the precision of baking, whereas cooking is way less fun to me. I have a mean sweet tooth :)
2. Do you buy fabric with a specific project in mind or "just because"?
Rarely. I tend to buy fabric I love, regardless of whether or not I have a project in mind for it. I usually purchase fabrics in half-yard or yard increments, depending on the price, when I'm buying frivolously. This could explain why my fabric collection is starting to outgrow its current space...
I'm usually a multitasker, flitting between several ongoing projects, but lately, I've been trying to tame that habit a little bit. In the past, I'd try to juggle as many as ten different projects, but I'm trying to prioritize my time better, rather than spending 30 minutes trying to decide which project to work on. Sometimes I really wish I were the kind of quilter who could work on just one project at a time - maybe I'd be less messy that way!
Um...I had to go count them :) I've given many of the quilts I've made as gifts and also some to charity, but I currently own 11 of my quilts, including 3 that belong to my son.
5. How do you use your quilts, or are they stored away somewhere?
I rarely feel cold. I mean, I live in Florida, and even in the winter, it's never really all that cold here. I tend to keep our air conditioning cooler at night, as I like to snuggle under my big warm/cool quilt on my bed at night, and my husband is always griping that it's cold, so he often will snuggle under a quilt on the couch. When my mother visits, she sleeps under a few quilts. I definitely put my quilts to use. They also make great forts!
6. What is your favorite food?
My all-time favorite food in the world is my mother's fried chicken with biscuits and gravy. So down-home and tasty, it's the kind of meal that just says "home" to me.
7. What is your current favorite color combination?
Such a tough one!! Um...I'd have to say teal, gold, and aqua. It's funny, before I started quilting, I was a bit of a color snob. There were colors I would often say I just didn't like, but now, it's almost as though I appreciate color more than I used to. There really isn't a single color I think I would say that I don't like, but if you looked at my fabric collection, it would be super easy to see what color I like best, and that's blue.
8. Where do you get your ideas and/or inspiration?
All over the place. I take pictures all the time, sometimes of plants where I see beautiful color combinations, or of fences or tile where I see a pattern that interests me. I've been inspired by pieces of furniture, fabrics, credit card commercials, you name it. Inspiration is everywhere, you just have to look. :)
This was fun!!! Now I get to tag some people, too...hmm...
Kelly from kelbysews (who's starting a fun new quilt-along - check it out!)
Jess from Sew Crafty Jess
Kati from From the Blue Chair
Kim from My Go-Go Life
Here's my questions:
1. Do you have other hobbies other than quilting?
2. What's the smallest size scrap you save when quilting?
3. How many of your quilts do you actually own?
4. Are you a pre-washer, or do you wash your fabrics after the quilt is finished?
5. What do you do while you sew? Listen to music? Watch TV? Enjoy the silence?
6. How many blogs do you read?
7. What is your favorite food?
8. Are you a morning person or a night person?
I hope you're all having a wonderful Sunday :)
I am totally on the same page as you for favorite color combination at the moment! And I love that your quilts are used for forts, too- same goes at my house! I love to see them get used by my kids :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for playing along. It was fun reading your answers and I'm glad to hear someone else's fabric is outgrowing it's space. Maybe we should start a support group!
ReplyDeleteFun answers, and love that colour palette!
ReplyDeleteYour fabric collection is beautiful. Have you done a post on how it is organized? I'm off to check now. :)
ReplyDeleteOh how FUN!!!! I would love to come play in your sewing room and eat that bundt cake!!!!!! and that color combo, WOW!!!! Thanks for the tag and I will be answering in the next couple of days!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading that. I, too, prefer baking to cooking. My DD and I used to have baking days a lot when she was little, and even when she wasn't so little. I also buy fabric in half metre lots (or one, two or three metres if it's good for backings).
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