it's a good doomsday

The plique-à-jour technique was used for the green leaves of the Glycine collar by Philippe Wolfers, perhaps the most important piece by the Belgian jeweler.

That being said, do you ever worry about not being able to sell a quilt? It seems like it must be quite expensive and time-consuming to make, do you ever get nervous about things that sit around too long? Do you purge stock or something if you have too many of them? Do you store the extras in a warehouse or something? I find your work so beautiful and fascinating but my anxiety brain goes "but where do they all go until they sell? What happens if you spent all that time and money and it just doesn't click with someone else's decor?"

Thank you so much for sharing your art here! It's really a delight to see! 💖

Thank you so much! I have so much fun making these, and I’m always happy other people like them too.

I have zero expectation of selling a good 80% of the quilts that I make. The other 20% of the quilts I plan on giving away to friends and family as gifts.

The only quilts I make that I expect to sell are actually the commission quilts.

But I never got into quilting to sell them. I mean, sure, that’d be great and if I could make a living off selling the quilts I make for fun that would be fantastic.

I currently have 53 finished and complete quilts in my basement, 9 upstairs, and several rubbermaid bins out back in the shed with more.

Some of the quilts I’ve decided to keep, some are waiting for birthdays/holidays to roll around, some are just pretty to look at until/if I sell it.

As for time consuming, it’s my… only hobby besides reading. I don’t do sports (golf, hockey, baseball, ect,), I don’t go on vacations (i am a homebody and literally just hang out in the hotel room if i go somewhere), I don’t have any kids or a girlfriend/wife, I usually meal prep once a week so I don’t have to spend time making food every day.

Really, the only thing I spend a considerable amount of time on is my two dogs (who are lap dogs and just hang out in my sewing room with me) and my job.

My job, which is working at a fabric shop. I usually run the longarm for customers, but sometimes work the floor. And if it’s not busy, I am more than welcome to sew at work, doing my personal projects. And I get an employee discount on fabric at the shop as well.

As to where the rest of the quilts go, I donate the older quilts to the hospital and attached care home for patients and residents. The hospital foundation gets them appraised and I get a tax deductible paperwork thingy that helps with the costs. The hospital does that for every quilt they get, whether it’s from a personal donation or the Quilters Guild donations.

So yes. If you get into quilting, it is expensive. But I found ways to offset the cost with employee discounts and tax deductions, and I’m selling at least one quilt a month, so it’s doable for me.

When I started I had my grandmother’s 75 year old machine, a walmart rotary cutter, a 12” cutting board, and a 12” ruler. It took years to build up supplies and my stash. I just turned 40 this summer and now I have multiple sewing machines, cutting tables, cutters, and rulers. I can be picky about stuff. But that’s possible because I don’t spend money on kids or other hobbies.

I had a lot of fun painting this one~ That classic celestial gold and blue combo just can't be beat. I love Agott's character growth though the story, like the phases of the moon, ever changing 🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑

Of all the main characters, I think there's only Olly left to be brimmed haha.