I know that I can't be the only person who's had this problem before. The internet is a big place with a multitude of fun things to find, share, and capture our hopes, dreams, and even...our hearts (stage audience sigh). However, with the positive side of its vastness comes the evil twin . . . TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING AMAZING TWICE!!!
It's impossible sometimes. In this case I'm looking for a website for a fabric designer and quilter who had absolutely oodles of free quilt patterns on her site. I had a few picked out on my laptop but, as sometimes happens, I ended up with about 20 tabs open on my browser and decided to just close them all and start searching fresh. That was at least 2-3 days ago. I've spent the last 3 hours searching on and off for the site and designer itself as well as where on earth I found the link to it! I never just blatantly seach for fabric designers online, so I am almost positive it was linked through one of the sewing blogs I read. I haven't found it in any posts going back a week on every one of the blogs, but occasionally I pop in and check out new blogs as well.
If anyone is up to the challange or has any ideas, here's the sparse knowledge that I have from my memories of the site and colections (I was busy looking at the fabric, not the site).
1. It's a female designer and her name is escaping me entirely, but her name was the name for her fabric line
2. She had multiple different lines of fabric, all were very fun, busy patterns, just with different themes/motifs/color schemes to the different collections
3. She didn't sell her products directly from her site, but had links to where to buy her products, one of the purchasing sites only sold about 5-6 different designers' fabric and one of them was Ty Pennington's (of Extreme Home Makeover) home decor fabric line.
4.Like I said before, she had a massive amount of free quilt patterns, the list was easily 50+ patterns long, but unfortunately my home printer is out of ink, so I couldn't get hard copies of the ones I loved right away.
5. What I do remember of the site design is that it was very minimal. Lots of white on both sides with the main subject centered, and a fancily scripted list of links to different areas of her website.
Well, there it is. It's not much to go on, which makes my search that much more difficult and frustrating. I know I don't have a lot of traffic on here, but if you happen to think of someone that seems to match this description, I would be thrilled to find her again!
Ah well, live and live on...or in this case search and search on.
Happy Thursday!
Matthew
Goodness me, how long has it been?! I can't believe I haven't posted for five whole days.
I don't have pics because life has been running me ragged, but here's a bit of what I've been working on (I've had a mild case of crafting ADD, so it's mostly unrelated to my jacket :-S ).
First off, I finally relocated my sewing and crafting supplies from our living room couch, just in time for the Oscar party we're hosting tomorrow! I found a place in the basement just outside my bedroom where I rearanged my desk and some storage boxes so that I could reach the outlet...yes, that's singular, for my sewing machine, lamp, iron, and a place to plug my computer in.
During the relocation project, I was letting my mind wander and found a small side project that I had been meaning to start creeping towards the forefront of my thoughts. I've always wanted to get into quilting, but I thought becoming more comfortable with the basics of sewing and the soecifics of my sewing machine first would be a good idea. I eventually settled on an idea that would give me the best of both worlds. I'm making a quilt out of my basic white sheeting fabric, but to embelish it, I'm hand stitching in stripes of each color of the rainbow. The quilt will be 5 blocks by 7 and each block will end up 8 1/2" wide after the seams are sewn. This gives me the opportunity to do some cutting (already done) and work on my hand stitching/embroidery skills, and eventually I will get the chance to work with piecing it together. It's going to be all squares, so here's to hoping for a moderate success, and I will be posting pictures after I have a few blocks sewn to give you a bit of an idea.
I also began a new hardanger project, though the instructions on the pattern didn't have a size requirement for the fabric, but it was in a packet that were supposed to be 9" doilies. I cut a square 13" to give myself room to work, and started counting up from the center to begin my border (hardanger pieces begin with the border and work their way in)...it was about 12 holes short!!! I got mad for about 30 seconds, then I composed myself and decided to change it into a freestyle hardanger piece. I'm working backwards from the center and taking it as an opportunity to try some new stitches for the first time.
Did I mention an Oscar party earlier? Why yes I did! Nothing fancy, and potluck style, but I will be taking pictures of what decorations I do use for you to enjoy tomorrow.
I hoe you all stayed busy this week, and have lots of projects planned for this coming week as well. I know I do. What's on the docket for you all before next weekend?
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." -Albert Einstein
Matthew
