Stoooopid......

I thought I'd be all fancy pantsy and do a lovely blog background.

Now the stoopid thing is only showing half what it should.  I can't change it back to the boring old blue.

I don't know if anyone is out there (is anyone out there???) but how do I change the blessed thing to one or the other?

Stoopid.

My Love...

I've always loved fabric, the way it feels, the way it smells.  But never in a I want to marry you and have your children kind of way.  Until I found Aunt Grace.  And from then on, it's been true love.

I've made more quilts from Thirties prints than I could count right here - I'd need a minute to tally them all up.  I have a precious box of holy fabrics, and whenever it gets a little too empty, I buy more to stock it up.  I'm a member of Judie Rothermal's quilt club, and every time she gets a new line printed, she sends me a fat quarter of each.  

I discovered civil war reproductions a few years ago, and now I have a whole new way to spend my money.  I have collected quite a hefty stash of those as well.  I really must pull the proverbial finger out and get sewing, because I don't think I'd ever get to the bottom of those boxes before I die.

I'm not sure why I love those fabrics so much.  As time goes on, my tastes in quilting get less and less modern, more and more aged.  I don't want to do avant garde things, ground breaking stuff.  I want to do the quilts that they made two hundred years ago, waiting for their husbands to come back from the war.

Anyway.  That's the story of Repro Girl.  

Till tomorrow,

Repro Girl

New Beginnings

I don't often make New Year's Resolutions, but this year I decided it was the year of Getting My Act Together.  Finish up projects.  Finally commit to things that I have been half hearted about.  Clean the house.  You know.

One of those things was to be online with a blog, and not telling a single soul in my 'real life' that I blog.  I've made half hearted starts along the way with my feeble attempts at blogging, and I foolishly told people I have been keeping one.  That follows with the inevitable question 'what's your address', and then suddenly I am too scared to actually do a post for fear of offending others, or embarrassing myself.   I immediately end up changing my writing or posting style, and I really don't want to do that this time.

So, here it is.  The newest version.  I don't pretend anyone will actually recognise who I am (I am of course, that very famous movie star you are sure really does quilt in her trailer between takes, truly I am) from my previous blogs.  But I'm not doing this for anyone else, just for me.  My little part of the internet, just for me.

I love to quilt, knit, sew - all of the above.  I love to write, though it's not something I am particularly good at.  I have very little time in my day and I do too many things too quickly all at once, and it's something that I am working on.  I am a wife and mother, quilter, daughter, friend.  And I'm a reproduction lover, hence my title.

It's nice to meet you.  I'm Repro Girl.