A Tale Of Too Much Pink!

Several months back, while dealing with the broken foot/broken face debacle and still trying to stay on track with designing and pulling fabrics for our Chilhowie quilt, I opened a stash cabinet door to pull oranges and found that the weight of the shelf containing all of these pinks had finally given way.

WHY do I have so much pink fabric?

I have no excuses.  I have no reasoning.  It was the early 2000s and I am blaming self-medicating with fabric stashing while raising teenage boys.  That's my story.  I'm sticking to it.

For MONTHS I would open that cabinet door, see the mess, moan, and shut the door.  That's how badly I did not want to deal with fixing the shelf and reorganizing everything.

Because before the shelf could be fixed - all of that fabric had to come out and I just had zero desire to deal with it.  Have you been there?

I think there is a life lesson in there somewhere - something else I've been refusing to face, and maybe you have something too. Shut the door, we'll deal with that later.

This photo was taken after most of the fabric had already been brought out to sit on every surrounding flat surface.

At this stage of the game I wish I had self-medicated with fat-quarters instead of yardage, but you know - it was teenage boys.  How else was I supposed to cope? BIG purchases!

Not only were there piles on top of the sewing machine as in the top photo of this post -

But there was more here.

And you know what?  I still love most of these prints.  I'll work on something to use them up somewhere, somehow.  Some place they look really great.  Maybe early 2000's repros of 1800s pinks will have a resurgence somehow.

I switched things around a bit.

There is less orange than pink.  WHY was all of that heavy pink above the orange? Because I wanted things in rainbow order.  But honestly - who really cares, as long as I know where to find the colors I need when I need them?  

The way-too-much-pink is now on the bottom with the not-as-much orange above.  There is also more pink shoved into the reds above the oranges.  Because I ran out of room.

I see many pink backings in my future.

I love my fabrics.  I make no apologies for how long I've had them or how they inspired me when I collected them.  There are still so many projects that will benefit from them.

Maybe I'll start on a valentine's something - that is AFTER I finish sewing the top for the blue & chartreuse  quilt. 

Don't let tiny pieces scare you!  It's the same seam allowance!

I've finished the "Webbing" in one direction, all pieces are in place.  Now the cross-seaming begins.

I've had folks ask if I press while webbing.  These pieces are so small that a good finger press as I add the next column is sufficient for this direction. I do iron press after every cross seam.

That pressing will take care of the seam I just pressed, and prep the next couple of rows for cross-seaming at the same time.

Secondary stars!  FUN!

I didn't work on this one yesterday as I was getting the long arm space ready for my maintenance guy to come.  (Hence the digging into fixing the pink shelf.) Evidently he got caught in a snow storm while crossing Indiana and had found it safer to hunker down there than to continue, so hopefully by late this afternoon we'll have that all taken care of.

Since I have some time the cross-seaming may begin this morning.

Our little Charlie Brown tree in a lard bucket is twinkling!

Ivy at my shoulder at the top of the couch while I was hand quilting beneath my task light - evidently she thought the light was too bright and tucked her face under.  Just so stinking cute I had to attempt a photo. "Too bright, Mama!"

This morning's sunrise photo - also too bright.  Seriously beaming this morning.  There is plenty of horrid cold on the way - so I'll focus on the light instead.

Five days until the Solstice.  I'm counting down!

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

If the holiday stress is pulling you down, remember this. 

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You are perfect just as you are. 

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!