You Know You’re a Crazy Crafter When…

You know you’re completely crazy for your craft when you…

Manage to find materials, even when you told yourself you weren’t going to start a new project on trip, end up spinning 5 ounces of wool in your hotel room, and finishing the skein in your bathtub:

free motion quilting | Leah Day

Take a shuttle to an awesome yarn store, happen across a bead store, and an art store, then walk 15 blocks in freezing cold weather to get to ANOTHER super awesome fabric and yarn store (because 1 is never enough):

In the end, I have blisters on all my toes, my legs hurt, I’m tired, but blissfully happy watching the snow fall as I knit and spin up a storm:

free motion quilting | Leah Day

Here’s to the insanity of crafting!

Leah Day

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

12 Responses

  1. Anonymous says:

    Here is to the need to create!

  2. Oh yes! I totally get it.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Your tub yarn is beautiful. Love the color.
    Clever weight for the yarn in the tub. Enjoy the evening.

  4. Patti says:

    Sound like you had a wonderfully "crazy" day!

  5. Noela says:

    You are so right, can't help ourselves. Hugs….

  6. Leah, I do most of my crochet projects when my husband and I go on a trip, sadly I sometimes have UFOs and it requires me to find another long driving trip for us so I can finish my project 🙂

  7. Foster says:

    So true, so true. You make me laugh.

  8. SewCalGal says:

    Yeap, deafinitely signs of a cracy crafter. Wonder what the hotel maid thought?

    But, when the creative bug strikes, you need to follow it…and I look forward to seeing what you create with this. I'm sure it will be beautiful.

    SewCalGal
    http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com

  9. zarina says:

    How can you spin on your trip? Wow – that is one mighty crafty day you had.

  10. Oh, it's sweet crazy!

  11. LAQuilts says:

    The desire to create is a powerful force

  12. Pauline says:

    It's officially noted: you're an addict!
    LOL, I love your trip, goïng from one store to the next, although you have to walk 15 blocks in this cold weather!

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