I Got a Job!

I received this fortune after eating dim sum with my husband and it has come true! I start Dec. 1st at a state-wide non-profit as a development manager.

The Bad Blogger Returns!

I'm finally back to blogging. Sorry about such a long hiatus but I just couldn't seem to write anything. I was, however, busy!

I promised my former boss a quilt for the birth of her grandson. However, his birth came and went and no quilt! I had made one for a friend so I couldn't figure out why I was having such trouble. It finally occurred to me that I get a color theme in my head and then I start collecting fabric for the scheme. I realized it took 5 years for me to collect the fabric for her quilt. Since my boss' quilt is of a color scheme I've never worked with before, it would take me 5 years to collect enough fabric for the quilt!!! Plus, I'm a rotten quilter.

What does still inspire me is hats! So I made him a hat and his grandma a matching one so they could wear them together. Here's the boy's hat. Its made of grey denim of a light weight. It looks more "weavy" than it really is.

Here is the inside band.

Of course the hat is reversible and I love that it takes on a "porkpie" hat look. In fact, I may lower the brims of this hat in the future to actually be a porkpie hat. The zebra fabric is a Jennifer Paganelli Sis Boom print.

Here's Grandma's and grandson's hats together-