The Lularoe rabbit hole

Normally my blog is chock full of quilting stuff. 

I love my quilting.

I love me some fabric of course. I love all the colors. 

When my sister Marie decided to become a Lularoe consultant I had no idea what it was. I had heard about the leggings and that was it. She started her business with the basic clothing kit. 

You never know what will be sent - only the sizes.

Well since I had never really experienced Lularoe I couldn't buy anything from her. 

I didn't know my sizes.

I was pretty intrigued with all the options that she had and Disney collection was being released!

We decided to have a visit in Iowa and that gave me the opportunity to see her items and actually TRY them on lol.

Have you tried Lularoe?
Yeah well the leggings were the first item I tried.

The fabric is incredibly soft. 

I'm a fabric lover like I said - so I was hooked.
I starting making outfits with her items and ended up with 3!

I took them to Iceland with me and found they were the best clothing for traveling there.

(photo credit Gudrun Erla Gisladottir)

Plus I bought leggings for Elly
my 10 year old.

She's a lularoer too now. She adores the leggings.

Interestingly, I sort of feel like Lularoe is like when you get into quilting.

You stop at a quilt shop, green behind the ears since you've never made a quilt. The amount of fabric overwhelms you but you see a basic kit and decide to give it a try. 

Within a month you have bought 5 kits,  precuts, yardage and visited all the local shops within 100 miles :) and it doesn't stop there... you head online for a better selection.

Well Lularoe is much like a quilt shop. 

 You get personal service, are able to try on different styles and sizes and if you don't find what you are looking for, head to facebook  and search for it. There are over 1000 Lularoe facebook pages. Lots of multi consultant groups and sale sites. 

They even have their "unicorns" aka super hard to find prints or styles.
Here are a few of my personal "unicorns"

Again it reminds of the elusive fabrics by Tula Pink like Neptune or Heather Ross Munki Munki.  They sell on ebay for $$$$$.
Same for the Lularoe unicorns, but just like quilting fabric lines, there are always new prints and you can quickly move on from that one print and find a substitute right?....right? 

maybe?

In support of my sister's new business with Lularoe, I decided to host a pop up.
But she's in Iowa so I decided to do an online pop up to coordinate with the in home pop up. 

You are all invited. 

The link to my pop up sale, which shows all her in stock styles and sizes, will be available Saturday September 2, 2017 starting at 9 am and will close Sunday September 3, 2017 9am. 

24 hours to shop and check it out.

If you are interested in looking around, joining us for a live sale Saturday morning with a bunch of new items or just curious, 

you can join Marie's Lularoe facebook group 

or use this address https://www.facebook.com/groups/913822245424024 to join her group!

She's giving away a Carly dress (retail $55) on Sunday September 3.
my "unicorn" Carly dress shown below :)  --->

Now back to our regularly scheduled quilting...yes I have been sewing ;)

Bella Skillbuilder Month 7 – Half Square and Quarter Square Triangles

I'm quite a bit late this month with my Bella Skill builder blocks.

I have a legit excuse...

I was in Iceland!

More on that in another post...

Since our return, I have been slowly catching up and finally found time to write my blog post.

This month is all about half square and quarter square triangles.

Let me just say that I found these pattern instructions to be very helpful

and my block turned out so much more accurate than my HST's usually do :)

Awesome things about this project are the videos that go along with it by the Fat Quarter Shop.

I love these color combos and just look how it's coming together.

It's so big that I couldn't get a picture of the entire layout from the front.

I'm hoping to find a bit more sewing time this month so I can get September's blocks ready to go.

Gosh by the time I add those...this will be nearly done!

Spent Some Time in Utah

 I spent 4 days in Utah near the end of June.

It was a Riley Blake / Lori Holt retreat for shop owners at the Quilter's Lodge in Draper.

I am always looking for ways to bring unique and cute fabric to my etsy shop.

This was a perfect opportunity to learn and expand my business.

Part of the retreat we learned applique for the new Quilt Along

on Lori blog for her Bee Happy quilt.

Of Course, I fell in love with the quilt months ago when the fabric was released for shop owners.

I have bundles, precuts and yardage in my etsy shop - it's even 25% off until Wednesday July 19 at midnight CST! Everything in my shop is on sale :)

Riley Blake provided us little kits for our blocks so that we could get right to making

- that was awesome.

Lori will be sharing her way of organizing to make this quilt and I'm telling you....

you will want to try her method!

 Here are a few close ups of the blocks that I really really love.

Think of the possibilities?

If you don't want to make the whole quilt.

Frame one, mini quilt, potholder and on and on...

I'm smitten.

 The Super Star pillow which Lori showed us that the retreat, uses her Bee Happy simple shapes too.

Again, a wonderful way for Lori to show you how the templates can be used for other projects, not just the Bee Happy Quilt.

And again... I really wanted this pillow for the 4th of July so I started it at the retreat.

You can see my mess - I mean my sewing station :)

Unfortunately, my Super star pillow is just a quilt top...

but I'm pretty sure I will have it finished for the next 4th of July.

It was a totally cool retreat where I made some new friends, hung with old friends and reconnected with one too.

Way more than I could've asked for.

Wild Goose Chase Quilt

The fat quarter shop has another Classic Vintage pattern release this month.

It's called Wild Goose Chase.

I knew I wanted to try at least one block because

I have never made this particular pattern before.

The pattern suggests using the Triangles on a Roll for the flying geese.

Which are sale at the Fat Quarter Shop this week with the code Triangle15

As you know, I have just recently tried the Flying Geese ruler which was a great success and now this technique.

Hmm both work so well that it's hard to say which is better.

Both are accurate, each have positives and negatives.

The Fat Quarter Shop has a video of how to make the block:

I mixed a Robert Kaufman cat fabric and Yuwa 30's collection candy flower.

The block is about 17" finished.

I want to make an entire quilt with this block so it will go on my to - do list :)

Bella Skill Builder Block 6 - Courthouse steps

Bella Skill Builder Block 6

Courthouse Steps

Using the creative grids 6" log cabin trim tool made assembling these blocks easy.

Not to mention very accurate.

I continued with my planned color choices with these blocks

and I have to say it's turning out better and better each month.

Here are Blocks 1-6 so far.

There are some spaces for the next 3 installments....
It's a little wild looking even for me :)
See you next month.