I Got The Fever…
And the only cure is MORE COWBELL!
(So, my last entry? I went to edit something in it, and I don't know if it was my stupidity or a server hiccup, but BLAMMO. It was eated.)
Okay, maybe not. But the cure IS more quilting. Since I don't want to die of the fever, I was forced to take a stroll through eBay looking for ideas. This is what I came up with:
Those are fat quarter packs; the first one has 8 total, and the bottom has 7 (I bought two of those, so I'll have 14 fat quarters). The top one will be for keeps, but the bottom one is for a special project for someone that I need to cheer up. I'm not what you'd call an advanced quilter, though I do have a lot of enthusiasm. So I went on the hunt for a project that I could do a bit at a time and if it wasn't perfect, really, it wouldn't be a big deal. I do have the Turning Twenty book which seems to be the standard for quick, easy quilts, but this caught my eye at the grocery store:
It's just a bunch of strips! I can do that! I think. I want to have the quilt top cut over the next week or two, get it peiced, and then I'm going to do something so heinous, you're not even going to be able to control yourself: I'm sending it out TO BE QUILTED BY SOMEONE ELSE. I know, right? But my machine just can't handle all of that fabric; I don't have a long arm quilting machine, and I need to take classes to know how to use one, and I want this quilt to be awesomeness personified. I'm still going to bind it and blindstitch the hem all by myself, but as someone noted in a Rav forum (I belong to a quilting group on a knitting forum. Go figure THAT one out) if you don't quilt it yourself, you're not a quilter – you're a TOP MAKER.
Consider me a top maker…this time around, at least.
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