A busy bee

I mentioned the Romancing The Vote auction a couple of weeks ago.

What I hadn’t resolved myself yet to do, at the time of posting, was to offer something myself for the auction.

Then on Thursday the 17th, I saw that someone offered some fairly simple, snap-closure pouches made of color-shifting vinyl, so I got over myself (as much as my impostor syndrome lets me), and offered ten small pouches like the ones I made a while back, with the caveat that I didn’t have any on hand, so I’d have to make them.

To my surprise, they sold out in less than two hours!

Drunk on the euphoria of “you like me, you really like me!” ¹, I recklessly offered a second batch of ten, which also sold out pretty fast, and now I have to hand-sew twenty tiny patchwork pouches in a hurry.²

All of which boils down to: I may slow down on posting for a few weeks–at least book reviews, as they take me forever to write, and I may indulge in image-heavy progress reports of sorts, like this one.

As with the previous iteration, all of these pouches are being made from fabric I am reusing, mostly from some old work shirts and jeans, and this means that the selection of colors and types of cotton fabrics I’m using is somewhat limited.

To compensate, I’m trying to get creative with the fabric combinations for the shell, the fabric for the lining and the zipper tabs, the quilting designs for the pieces of each pouch and the thread colors I’m quilting with. I don’t know if I’ll manage, but my hope is that I’ll end up with twenty unique pieces, and that the recipients will be happy when they get them.

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update: I emailed all the buyers on Monday, but at least one email is bouncing (“over quota”). If you see this post but haven’t heard from me, please check the inbox of email address you are using for 32auctions.

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¹ This is the usual, often mocking, misquote; what Sally Fields said was: “I haven’t had an orthodox career, and I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect….This time I feel it. And I can’t deny the fact that you like me. Right now, you like me!”

² Okay, a lot of the hurry is self-imposed, as the listing did specify that I’m hand-stitching them and that it may take a few weeks, but I just don’t want to make anyone wait too long. And, at any rate, I’ve already sewn five, so there are only fifteen more to make ::beams::

(You can’t really tell rom the picture, but this is the lining of the salmon/blue/denim pouch above)