What I need to be doing . . .

I have the lovely opportunity to work Saturday afternoons at a local quilt store. I have been doing this for 5 years now. (I can't believe it's been that long.) It is my once-a-week sanity-break. :) It's so nice to have a little bit of time each week to brush-up on my adult-conversation-skills. I am SO grateful for the support of my husband in making this possible. I have had my last two babies during this time and after each was born I thought I would probably have to quit, but my husband (being the wise man that he is) realized that I was a much saner person when I had a set time to leave the house alone each week. Not only is it a dream-job to get to pet fabric every Saturday while talking to other nice quilters, but they even give me money to do it! Amazing!

I also get to make quilt samples for the store, and because this store specializes in kits, I also help put together the kits for the quilts that I make. This is an interesting process. Most of the quilts I make are out of fabric that we have that is not moving fast. I like this challenge. Maybe it's the hidden pioneer-woman in me, using only what I have on hand. (Except this fabric comes from big bolts of fabric with words like MODA on the ends, instead of worn-out clothes.)

Anyway, this is a recent quilt and I need to finish the kits. The main cause for the creation of this quilt was the large bolt of the clown fabric we had. So I decided to make a baby quilt with some of the other fabrics from the Anna Griffin line and include some of the popular Amy Butler Midwest Modern line to make it more appealing. Then we put the clowns on the back.

This is one of the funniest quirks about selling fabric. We almost always put a fabric on the back of a quilt that is either not selling or is down-right not cute. And guess what? It flies out of the shop. It's hilarious. So, don't be sheep folks. Pick a fabric for the back of your quilts that you love, not just what the quilt-shop used, because chances are, they're just trying to get rid of it. :)
As much as I love doing this, it explains why I don't always have time to do what I want to be doing.