Friday, September 10, 2010

Urban Home Goods Swap Part Deux


I finished my swap pieces for my Urban Home Goods partner last night and they're going out now with the postman. I'll be sad to say good-bye to them, but I'm hoping they're just my partner's style and she'll love them too. I was very excited to get this particular person and I had a blast thinking these up and playing with all these pretty colors and fabrics. I have a hard time limiting myself to a color palette (have you noticed that all my quilts are sort of rainbow-y?) and I think the effect of sticking to just a few colors brings a whole new mood to a project.
For the sewing machine cover I had originally intended on making a "cozy" but panicked that it would be too small so in the end I had to re-work it into a quilty cover. To go along with it I added a little hexagon pouch and a diamond paper-pieced pincushion in matching fabrics. I hope you love them all partner!


Something I don't often mention here is the wino side of my life. My husband is a very talented wine maker for a living (I'm talking knock your socks off delicious wines!) and here is a picture he took of some ripening Cabernet Sauvignon grapes that will be coming to the winery and made into wine very soon. 


After six years together I have gotten used to the annual harvest time in which I basically don't have a husband for two months. Our grapes are grown across the mountains in eastern Washington and Mark spends months taking day and overnight trips there to test grapes and bring them home to the winery when they're ripe. Then comes the long early mornings to late nights crushing, pressing and seeing it through fermentation until barrel-down time. It was hard in the dating can't-stand-to-be-away-from-one-another-for-five-minutes phase of our relationship, and I certainly don't love single mommyhood, but the one up side to all of it now is the many evenings alone I'll have after Lucy goes to bed to get some real uninterrupted sewing time! You gotta always try to find the good in things, right?

15 comments:

  1. Wow ... your swap partner is one lucky woman!

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  2. Your work is amazing...everything looks beautiful...hope she likes it!

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  3. Very beautiful! The fabrics are so cute! What a cute hexagon pouch and pincushion!

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  4. that stuff looks SO cute!!!!!!! I like the sewing machine cover a ton! Also...grapes! So cool!!!! wine! ahhh!!!!

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  5. The other upside is the gorgeous wine at your disposal. He's certainly a keeper! Love your hexies!

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  6. My husband is a reservist and I secretly look forward to his overnight weekends so I can throw fabric and thread all over our dining room and it doesn't matter! Cute stuff, I am sure your partner is going to love it!

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  7. It sounds like such an idyllic life living on a winery! It must be gorgeous, you should post some pics of it all - I'd love to see! I am imagining the winery in Brothers and Sisters but not sure that's even real!

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  8. LOVE your little hexies, and those gnomes are adorable, aren't they?

    Lucky swap partner :)

    SHeilaC

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  9. Your swap parter should be tickled pink with your creations! I know I would be.

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  10. I love the set you are sending to your partner!

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  11. those grapes look divine! I think making wine sounds like such a romantic life (even though I know it's a lot of hard work).

    With that color scheme I think I may know who your partner is and what a lucky partner she is!!

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  12. I love all the pieces you made for the swap!! Just so yummy!!!

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  13. gosh Megan, you always put so much of your heart into swaps! I love it. And your projects show it. I hope this phase of the wine making goes smoothly for you and your husband!

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  14. I love your hexies. The grapes reminded me of when I was a child and my family. I grew up on a wine farm where my family still live for more than 80 years.

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  15. I can completely relate!
    http://www.crushwidow.blogspot.com!
    Lynn

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