Inspiration

Cataloging My Home

by CZeitler

When it comes down to it I am a Librarian. Due to this I wanted to have something of an inventory of the periodicals, books, and materials that I have at my disposal. All too often I am searching for new inspiration and forget what I already have. My first step was to research what methods I can use to keep track of my items in a way that is still searchable and able to be organized. I started with Notion, then I discovered that I cannot opt out of allowing my data to be harvested by AI so I then cancelled that option. At present I was not able to find an inexpensive option that does not utilize AI so I decided to go with the old fashioned spreadsheet. I am currently using MacBooks so I have created mine on Numbers. Since I can use the sort function on separate columns I am able to add in a category that states what craft/category each item is for.

Since I know myself, and a huge spreadsheet with everything in it will be way too overwhelming, I have a separate spreadsheet for each type of item. One is periodicals (magazines), craft books, fiction books, stabilizers, quilt fabric, sewing patterns, etc. This is going to be a very long term project. I have decided that my magazines and books are not going to go onto my shelf without being either photographed or put into my spreadsheet. Before I had the spreadsheet started I was just photographing everything and I am going to have to add everything into my spreadsheet over time. Speaking of photography, I did take some photos using my cellphone mounted on my dashboard while I was driving home after the museum visit. I did do this safely by spamming the photo button while looking at the road. I am still unable to get good nightspots on my iPhone, however I was able to color correct a couple of these photos to get the blues and pinks a little closer to what they looked like while I was driving home. I have not taken the time to see if I can turn the inspiration into a tapestry, however that is part of the plan.

Until next time remember to Live Life a Little More Abstract!

Inspiration From H&H Americas

by CZeitler

I was lucky enough to be permitted to volunteer at the hand Weaver‘s guild of America booth as a demonstrator. I am not affiliated with or sponsored by any of the organizations or products mentioned here. I was very careful while attending this show to ensure that I did not bother vendors while they were speaking with their customer demographic, as this is their livelihood.

This post is mostly going to be pictures with minimal text if it is not obvious who the producer or organization being shown is I will add that.

These are some of the amazing items on display along with a featured crochet artist. I am not certain who made the very cute flame or the beautiful jacket.

The panel quilts are made using Camelot fabric.

There were many absolutely gorgeous quilts on display. I will admit that when I came home, I immediately went online to pick up the ultimate sashers collection by Pauline‘s quilter’s world. Some of the Sashing can be seen in the final quilt as the black outline is actually Sashing. The gentleman at the booth was kind enough to take a lot of time to describe to me the quilt as you go method and how the Sashing can be used for that. I do have several blocks on my embroidery machine that can be made as squares, and I am not very excited to use the quilt as you go method to create beautiful quilts and to experiment with the binding.

Coley craft had a wide variety of tools that were fascinating to look at. A lot of them are magnetic so they would hold up on either a magnetic pegboard or just a piece of metal like a cookie sheet that you put on the wall.

Ito had some brand new sparkly yarns that I just had to photograph although I know that sparkles do not show up well. The backlighting kind of wash these out but you get a bit of an idea. They were absolutely gorgeous in person. Louet purchased a new yarn line. I believe I mentioned that in the first post and these are some of the absolutely gorgeous colors as well as some of the kits that they will be coming in. I do not have a price but I will be on the lookout for them.

Remember to Live Life a Little More Abstract!