I got a notification last night that my AccuQuilt Go has shipped! Woot!
Meanwhile, this came in today’s mail.
One of the ideas it has in it, which hadn’t even crossed my mind yet (although I’m sure I’d have gotten there eventually), is to make fabric from sewing a bunch of scraps together and then sending it through the cutter with a die for an extra scrappy quilt. Wouldn’t that be fun? I know it would mean counting the seams as extra layers and such, but what a hoot.
This book cover made me think I may have to eventually buy the Sunbonnet Sue die just for nostalgia’s sake. When I was little, Mom did my bedroom with Holly Hobbie curtains and such (look up 1970s Holly Hobbie for examples). I don’t think she made it, but I remember her talking a lot about how entertained she was by a quilt pattern that showed all the ways Sunbonnet Sue dies—sort of a take on the “Oh No, Mr. Bill” thing (for those of you who get that pop-culture reference; another thing to Google if you don’t).
Later, Mom started a sampler quilt that had a Sunbonnet Sue that represented her, and Overall Sam that represented Dad. I wasn’t interested in finishing the quilt after she passed, but I put each of those blocks in an embroidery hoop as a frame and they hang on the wall of my sewing room. I’ve associated Sunbonnet Sue with my mom ever since.
Normally, something like Sunbonnet Sue wouldn’t be my thing. But those emotional connections run strong and make us do weird things, don’t they?