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So many project updates. I’ve been a busy beaver this week!

I’m quilting again, which I’ve missed. Quilting (to me) is kind of like painting but less messy. I absolutely despise picking out fabric. #1 I want to take EVERYTHING home with me, and #2 because I’m an absolute perfectionist about picking out fabric. It all has to go together.

And by go together, I mean that the colors have to work together and the patterns. You cant have five seriously busy patterns and then one that isn’t. I like varying the degrees of the patterns, picking one favorite and basing the rest off of that. Thus it takes forever.

I have a “boy” quilt and a “girl” quilt started (I’m going to use that very loosely…to me neither one looks particularly gendered…also, my boy students all love pink…so…what’s the point?)…they’re going pretty quick. I also have cats…they’re very…helpful…

Pele would like everyone to know that he absolutely DID NOT walk all over the pieces I laid out and mess up my layout. He helped me artistically rearrange them. Because that’s the kind of cat he is. Helpful, through and through.

I was also supremely delighted to get a new set of fabric markers in the mail. I LOVE THEM. THEY WORK SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE TULIP ONES!!!!! Yes, I just scream/typed. Because I am that excited. I love you Colore markers. You are da bomb.

You can see a little comparison between Tulip vs Colore. The wishy-washy colors are Tulip, the bright ones are Colore. I intentionally recolored half of the red/purple lolipop with Colore markers so that you could see the difference. Crazy right? As I was playing with them I realized that I could use the two types of markers together to create shading/watercolor effects/etc. but if you only want to buy one set of markers, don’t even bother with the Tulips. Just get the Colore’s.

The Colore Fabric Markers bleed less, plus they have a lovely super saturated color. The only downside is that you really need to put paper or something under the fabric as you color, because they will bleed through to the table. Everything I’m making with my coloring fabric will be interfaced and probably have a layer of batting behind it as well, so I’m not too worried about that, but if you were to color a t-shirt with them it would absolutely matter.

So…that’s all the project updates I have for today, BUT (yes, that’s a big but–and I did just giggle a little bit over that…I made a butt joke!) I’m going to post an update later in the week with a few more creations for the craft fair…they’re coming along nicely!

Adding fun into the title clearly makes EVERYTHING more fun. True story.

And now for my face:

Becky and I came up with 2 different earring designs based on my brand new coloring bookmark set–> Coloring Bookmarks Eat Sweets! Pretty spiffy, no? The ones I’m wearing in the photo feature a tiny stack of 3 cupcakes. Which means that when you wear them you are literally hanging 6 cupcakes off of your ears. Lets see Chuck Norris do that!

Now lets see my face again:

Bam! My face.

These are the singles. As it turns out, I like both of them equally–which is only odd, because I was really, really, really determined at first to have a stack of cupcakes because in my crazy cupcake obsessed mind more cupcakes are ALWAYS better. As it turns out, they are pretty stinkin’ cute, but the singles have the added bonus of being able to see the detail a bit more, so hooray for that.

As with the cherry blossom necklace (scroll down, I promise it’s in there), I created the lineart and Becky worked her magic to digitize it for the embroidery machine. They take a bit of trial and error to get right, and then they take a bit of prayer–because I really am terrified of fire, and melting the edges so that they don’t fray is utterly terrifying.

The purple cupcake stack and the blue cupcakes on the right are actually the original design. Can you tell the difference? The finished ones on the left look so much cleaner and nicer because we removed some of the detail. The poor yellow cupcake in the middle bit the dust–I think the embroidery machine tried to eat it…it happens sometimes.

So, what do you think? They’ll be available for sale soon…hopefully! We’ve got a few other things in the works as well, so keep an eye out.

And if you didn’t follow that link above to go buy my coloring bookmarks, go here! They’re pretty! They’re inexpensive! You can color them! And think how happy your very favorite Angela will be if you buy a set! (BTW, thank you for everyone who HAS bought a set, I really do giggle like a little kid every time I sell another one!)

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Quilts and Fabric Markers–Project Updates!

Fun with Cupcake Earrings!