Painting My Rabbit Hutch and Puttering around
Hello my quilting friends, and welcome to Podcast #104! This week I’m organizing, cleaning, painting, reorganizing, and just generally putting around. Just a few days ago I massively cleaned up my workshop, so I decided it was time to do the same thing in my upstairs quilting room.
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We’re going to raise Champagne D’Argent bunnies. I put together this hutch using mostly scrap wood from previous projects. It’s designed to hold the rabbit cages inside so they’re easy to access and clean out as needed. Unfortunately I didn’t think I would need to paint it, but then the giant bee-wasps began attacking it and burrowing holes in the wood. Paint tastes bad to the bees so yep, the hutch has to be painted!
If bunnies are not your thing, you’ll love hearing about our weekend at Hart Square Village! Hart Square is a grouping of over 100 historically preserved log cabins from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr. Bob Hart, who founded the village and put up all the cabins, wanted to make the cabins as realistic as possible so each one looks as if it’s still lived in and the residents could be coming home any minute.
This is one of my favorite cabins now – three stories and filled to the brim with beautiful antiques and quilts!
There are also beautiful, hundred year old quilts in every cabin! I would love to photograph every quilt in Hart Square and put together a book showing them off and detailing their history. I’m putting that idea on a bucket list for the future once I finish my Goddess Quilt Book.
New Mally Doll and Funky Ms. Bunnies
Back inside I went to town on my upstairs sewing room. When the big folding table in this room gets cluttered full of stuff, I know I need to clean up and clear out! This week I finally got back to my Mally doll pattern as well as two Ms. Bunnies from Christa Watson’s (of Christa Quilts) new upcoming fabric line.
I love these funky Ms. Bunny dolls made from Christa’s fabric!
Mally is the little girl hero of my quilt fiction novel Mally the Maker and Ms. Bunny is her beloved doll who comes to life inside the magical world inside a quilt. Click Here for more about Mally the Maker.
By the way, I had time to test the Ms. Bunny Spoonflower Panel again and it came out perfect! I think the issue I was having was 100% caused by the fabric being washed before cutting it out. So make sure if you go with this panel that you DON’T wash the fabric first!
That’s it for this week’s podcast. I hope you enjoyed watching me paint and muse about upcoming projects! What are you currently working on, and is your sewing room a huge mess? Let me know in the comments!
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Let’s go quilt,
Leah Day
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- #100 – Happy Episode 100!
- #99 – Overcome the Fear so You Can Create
- #98 – Permission to Make What You MOST Need to Create
- #97 – Running the National Quilt Museum with Frank Bennett
- #96 – Creative Ways to Beat the Winter Blues
- #95 – From Fire Fighter to Fiber Artist with Brandy Maslowski
- #94 – Cleaning Up to Be Creative
- #93 – Fixing Quilting Mistakes with Beth Collins
- #92 – Rising to Unexpected Challenges
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- #90 – Tracing a New Goddess Quilt
- #89 – My Word of the Year for 2019
Hello Leah, I used to raise rabbits and chicken too when my three kids were younger and we lived in the country a few years back. Now we just have a dog:) Seeing those cute adorable dolls want me to read that book for myself.
Yeah, I’m guilty of doing that too when spring comes around, I want to be outside and do not listen to my favorite podcast. That’s why my core quilting schedule starts in September and try to round it up around the end of June. I’ve journaled for at least 10 years also and you’re right, you can go back to them and see how you have grown in some area of your life. I love your laugh:)
Thank you so much Louise! I’m getting bunnies in just two weeks and super excited about it. I hope you will read Mally the Maker. It’s a fun read and quite an adventure, plus lots of quilting terms that will make you smile.
Hello Leah, Just wanted to let you know that I love your pod casts and I learn so much from them. I have learnt to be easier on myself when I goof up or don’t get a project finished on time, or buy more fabric than I need; only to discover I have a stash problem, but fabric doesn’t have calories and doesn’t go bad. You have taught me the love of my vintage machines, all 8 of them, and to use them not have them just sit on a shelf. I have so much to thank you for. You make my day.
Oh Lynda, thank you so much! I’m so happy to hear this! Yes, there is no point in beating yourself up about anything and the joy of sewing and quilting comes from expanding our horizons and keeping it as light and fun as possible. Thank you for making my day!