It's official! I finished my first quilt. All with IKEA fabrics. It's a bit poofy because I used a summer-weight IKEA synthetic quilt as the "batting." This presented quite a problem this morning when I went to quilt the three layers together. I did one row and it looked terrible. I spent like 30 minutes ripping out the seam.
That meant I needed to initiate plan B... tying knots of yarn at the intersections to hold the layers in place. This required working up the courage to step inside the little sewing shop in Älmhult. The shop looks like it's designed for die-hard sewers, so a beginner like me was a bit intimidated. Especially with the language barrier.
I brought my canvas shopping bag thinking I was only buying yarn and some polyfill for a nursing pillow I'm making. HA! I walked home with the yarn and polyfill PLUS 4 different jersey cotton fabrics to make swaddling blankets and little hats PLUS some real quilt batting for quilt #2.
The woman in the store spoke perfect English, and I even chatted with another woman who was planning to make baby blankets to get some ideas. (Mom, we are totally hitting this store when you come visit!!!)
I feel like such a geek, but I am just totally giddy about this new-found craftyness.
(Update Sunday night: So much for being a diva! I just noticed I messed up one of the squares. Oh well. Even divas started somewhere...)
I found your blog while searching "sewing shops in Sweden" :P I visit Skäne as many times as I can each year to visit my dearest friend. She's Swedish, so I've never had to go into a shop alone...yet! I'll be there again in February so maybe I'll have to check out some sewing shops!
Posted by: Kelly | December 15, 2007 at 03:50 PM