She puts out a tutorial video every Friday morning showing us a brand new quilt pattern. Maybe it's not brand new, but a new take on an old quilt block. She shows us shortcuts to make complicated blocks easy. I wait in anticipation every Friday! Fortunately it's there before I get up.
Enter Julia Childs. Julia Childs? What in the world does she have to do with quilt blocks?
Not a thing.
But the movie "Julie and Julia" is one of my very favorites. It stars Amy Adams and Meryl Streep. Amy is a young woman who loves to write and loves to cook. She desperately wants to do something to elevate her humdrum life as an office worker. She is enthralled by Julia Childs. She comes upon the idea of starting a blog and commits to taking each recipe in Julia Childs' famous book "The Art of French Cooking", and cooks it, writes about it every day for a year - and - well, you need to watch it!
As I'm watching Jenny Doan on her brand-new tutorial video this week, I had a GREAT idea! This Christmas, I made about 30-40 pillow covers for sale and for gifts and really enjoyed doing so. I also thought, "I watch all these videos every week and I know I won't make quilts out of them, but I'd like to make something with the blocks if only just to try them. And after all, I do have that immense stash of fabric....". I also love to write, and love to sew and create.
So here we go: My latest blog - Jenny and Annie - where I will make Jenny Doan's quilt block every week and make it into a pillow cover. And then it will go on my Etsy shop for sale: PinwheelsandYoYos at www.etsy.com/shop/pinwheelsandyoyos
The plan for now is to make two pillow covers a week (more if I have the time). Jenny has almost 300 tutorials on YouTube. So I will make an old one, and the newest one each week!
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Ann Bailey
