Baby Blanket Bingo

The “Minky Binky Factory” as my fiance calls it, is offically up and running.  Here are a few new blankets I made this past weekend.  I am finally on my way to mastering mitered corners (after much experimenting, I came up with a new novel way to do them), and have substituted my former straight stitch for a zig zag stich — much cuter and much more forgiving! 

The very adorable butterfly pattern blanket –I am proud to announce– is my very first special order.  I made a blanket for Willie, the baby girl of some good friends and they liked it so much, they asked if I could make one for their friend’s baby girl who is expected to arrive this month!  The sweet lavender flower and green minky blanket is for Maryn, the baby girl of good friends who arrived around Christmas time.

Stay tuned for more from the “factory” — under the careful tutelage of my fiance, the consummate entrepreneur, I am currently working on a logo and hope to get some fabric labels printed up soon for my fledgling business!

Hello world!

We’ll here I am.  I’ve landed in the blogosphere. 

Since relocating to beautiful and sunny Boulder, CO last fall with my fiance, I’ve used much of my spare time to create, or craft, if you will.  So (sew?), I’ve decided to start a blog to: keep track of all my projects, show all my interested friends and family what I’ve been up to, inspire other fellow crafters, and equally, be inspired by all of you.  And so, I present to you — imsewcrafty.com. 

My blog’s name is a little lame, I’ll admit it.  Turns out all the good names were taken though.  Shescrafty.com — an ode to the Beastie Boys — taken.  Craftastic.com and craftabulous.com — both odes to my love for making up new nonsensical words — taken.  The truth is, I’m really not that crafty and I’m just learning to sew.  But who wants to visit a blog called imsewnotcrafty.com?  Sounds more like a clearinghouse site for some of my less memorable ex-boyfriends.

But I digress.  On to the crafts….

A few months ago, inspired by my truly crafty sister-in-law, Rachel, I decided that I wanted to learn how to quilt.  My parents were kind enough to gift me with a brand new sewing machine for my birthday, and I immediately signed up for a class at the local quilting shop.  The class scheduled for 1pm on a Tuesday was, not surprisingly, cancelled due to poor turnout.  Apparently my classmates, Ethel and Dorothy couldn’t make it.  So, I bought a book and decided to teach myself.

I bought some funky fabric and decided to do a ”rail fence” pattern lap quilt.  At this point, I am almost done with the piecing.  I decided to shirk convention and I’m not going to do a border — oh the horror.  Instead, I’m going to do a blanket stich in a thick chunky yarn around the edges and then tie-off the quilt with the same yarn, instead of quilting it.  Here’s a shot of my half-finished piecework.  Hopefully my grandma, Millie, aka her holiness the quilting guru of the Greater Capital District Region in Upstate NY, will be proud.