Last week when I was reorganizing and taking stock of my stash I unearthed many fabrics that I felt would make good coiled fabric coasters and bowls. I hadn't made a bowl in over a month so today was the day! A good piece of advice that my friend Margaret gave me back when I first started making bowls was it you aren't sure how it's going to look. before you commit yourself to an entire bowl, make a test coaster. I pulled two fabrics that I felt complimented each other and did just that. It did make a nice coater but I could see that it would be a bit boring as a bowl. The dark print is VERY multi-colored and has a bit of metallic gold in it which not only gave me, a good size palate to choose from but it also is very rich looking. Why not add a little eggplant and blue sapphire so I went digging and digging through my stash and finally found some small scrapes that color...yes!
I spent the ENTIRE day yesterday reorganizing my fabric cubby. It is a unit my husband built me that fits under the basement stairs and is 12" cube, one on tope of the other and 3 deep. I was amazed by the amount of fabric i have and this is not the only storage area I have for fabric. I also found a dicent piece of fabric that I had a small scrape of and said to myself last week, OOh, wish I had a larger piece of that...lo & behold, it was buried up there in the top left cubbie! The bottom center cubbie is what they looked like before I started., As I was finding small pieces of the same fabric in various and sundry locations I of course wanted to put it with the rest of it and found it difficult, especially if it had been placed towards the bottom. Once I had finished for the day and was standing back admire my handiwork it occured to me that if I had a full cubbie the fabric would hold itself up and it would be much easier to pull fabric out of a cubby if the fabric was on it's side. I flipped the fabric over on it's side on the top to left cubbies and could immediately see how this was going to ba a much better way to store my fabric
This past weekend was the North Quabbin's signature 2 day event, the Garlic and Arts Festival. This was the festival's 16th year and my second year as a vendor. It takes a lot of work and planning on my part to get ready for an event such as this. I have been sewing for almost 6 months to have enough inventory to fill up a 10' X 10" space.
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Last week when I was reorganizing and taking stock of my stash I unearthed many fabrics that I felt would make good coiled fabric coasters and bowls. I hadn't made a bowl in over a month so today was the day! A good piece of advice that my friend Margaret gave me back when I first started making bowls was it you aren't sure how it's going to look. before you commit yourself to an entire bowl, make a test coaster. I pulled two fabrics that I felt complimented each other and did just that. It did make a nice coater but I could see that it would be a bit boring as a bowl. The dark print is VERY multi-colored and has a bit of metallic gold in it which not only gave me, a good size palate to choose from but it also is very rich looking. Why not add a little eggplant and blue sapphire so I went digging and digging through my stash and finally found some small scrapes that color...yes! 
This past weekend was the North Quabbin's signature 2 day event, the Garlic and Arts Festival. This was the festival's 16th year and my second year as a vendor. It takes a lot of work and planning on my part to get ready for an event such as this. I have been sewing for almost 6 months to have enough inventory to fill up a 10' X 10" space.