I made some stuff.

Hola.

I just listed a bunch of fun SEWN stuff in my etsy store:

www.fabricbliss.etsy.com

(like, sewn. by ME! can you BELIEBE it?) 

(any justin fans in da hiz?)

Anyway, carrying on .....I made a pillow that would be pretty perfect in your guest room:

you can find that right here

Also, to ward away those evil spirits, not today Satan, on mint green chevron, right here:

not today, satan.

And I also made some SUPER FUN and funny flour sack dishtowels.

this is a link to all the handmade stuff in my shop.

I also made a new instagram account because I have been using my fabricbliss account for so many years, it has so many personal pics of my kiddos (and really, REALLY REALLY REALLY bad selfies of me) that it's not for public consumption. If I had blocked you from that account because I didn't know you in real life, my sincerest apologies. I made a decision a few years ago to let my kids lives be their's to share. And it was done in like the middle of the night and without a ton of thought TBH so yeah, I'm so sorry. 

Follow along on the new account, here, which promises to only invade my own privacy:

fabricblissblog instagram

 It feels really, really good to be back behind the sewing machine again on a regular basis. I still have so many notions and ribbons and CORD STOPS from my fabric store days so I may add those supplies to the shop as well. Any specific requests if there are any fabfabads left out there?

xoxo.

We heart Minecraft {or} A very Geeky Christmas

Filed under {better late than never} a recap of Christmas 2011. December was filled to the brim with two ill-conceived, last minute CRAZY OVER THE TOP sewing projects that were the brain-child of my dear, sweet, crazy, pain in the ass husband. In late November, he asked {all innocently}what I thought about sewing a few SIMPLE quilts for Cam and Bo {13 and 12 yr old sons}. I knew they had been OBSESSED with this game MINECRAFT for about 6 months and he thought they might enjoy some super geeky themed quilts. I was all game, since I had just painted them super simple cardboard masks for Halloween and the design seemed like it would be straightforward. Yeah. I was SO NAIVE.

As soon as I agreed to whip up some quilts, I promptly forgot all about it.

...

Fast forward to FOUR WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS and my dear pain in the ass husband asks me if I am ready to talk about proposed quilt patterns and a Joann's shopping list. And then he shows me the pattern he made on excel and it wasn't a lap quilt. It wasn't just a 64-square creeper face.

{creeper face aka what I was expecting to recreate}

 It was  INTRICATE. It was SCARY. Yeah. Did I mention I had only ever made ONE quilt before IN MY LIFE? And that I REGULARLY question the sanity of quilters and their need to cut up PERFECTLY GOOD FABRIC only to SEW IT ALL BACK TOGETHER AGAIN? Yeah. True Story.

So, then I dove head first into these crazy projects. And while they are FAR FROM PERFECT, the recipients loved them and I think they turned out pretty damn awesome.

This is C's {Steve with an axe}

And this is B's {A zombie with a pig}

{the girls were so pleased with new dolls, they didn't notice there were no quilts for them}

I don't plan to do a full tutorial of the quilt because I am ready to put the whole, painful incident behind me. But I would be happy to share my excel pattern file and basic quilting concept {that I am fairly certain breaks EVERY SINGLE QUILTING LAW EVERY WRITTEN} with anyone crazy enough interested. Just email me or leave a comment :)  I lost the excel file in the harddrive crash of 2012 :( SORRY! Yeah, because all those blue squares? I cut apart blue fabric and then re-sewed it all back together so it looked like pixels. Hell. Yes. True story.