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.
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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!