So this blog will be dedicated to helping me stay accountable for these projects that I want to finish. Somehow if I write it down and share it with others, I have a fighting chance of completing some of these projects! So join me on this journey through my mat leave....
Monday, 13 January 2014
Welcome to my blog!
I can't say that I have put a ton of thought into this blog idea, but here I am! Domain created and writing my first post. I find myself at home with my 6 week old son, and coming up with a thousand craft projects I want to made, or should I say finish! Let's back up and provide some context. I have always been a crafter, as a kid my Dad created a 10 foot long workstation for me in our basement. It was a scrap piece of laminate counter top attached to the basement studs with pegboard to hang all my accessories and craft supplies. I would spend hours at my workstation, painting, gluing, creating and dreaming. Like any good crafter, my workstation was cluttered and littered with projects-gone-bad and other such disasters. Every so often the organizational side would take over and it would get cleaned up; complete with labels on every hanger so that should anyone else in my house happen upon my workstation for some fun-with-bees wax, they would know exactly where the supplies could be found! Looking back, I long for that same dedicated space and time to be able to create. While in my last term of university, I took a quilting class. I was the only student in the class, and so I had great instruction and made my first quilt for my mom for Christmas in 2004. It probably only took 3 classes for me to get hooked on Quilting! I loved it, and still do. Its the perfect blend of planning/organizing,creativity, math/geometry and progress. As I have continued to quit and meet lots of other quilters it turns out that I have the typical quilters mentality; I have more projects started than finished! Which brings me to this current maternity leave from work. The bins are getting organized and projects are going to get finished! Note I didn't say how many were going to get finished!!
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About Me
- QuilterMommy
- My name is Kristin. I am a married mother of two little boys. When I am not on maternity leave I work full time in the consumer products industry as a supply chain logistics manager. I started this blog to track and commit to completing many unfinished quilting and other sewing projects while on maternity leave. As I learn and create I will share lots of pictures and tutorials here so that others may create too.
Love that you're doing this, both the blog and the projects! Can't wait to see and read what you do next.
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