I've been organizing my life and now I'm back around to the fabrics and craft supplies! Here's a cache of items I had forgotten about! Now they are organized and ready to be used. Do you have some items that need to be revisited?
Yay 😀❤️ Lovely Patty 💜, Your fabrics are so pretty and you look Amazing by the way 💜. I love the 1970’s Han Solo 👏 mine is Clint Eastwood to me he is the ultimate man lol. I watched this the day you posted it but for some reason my comment didn’t post 😞. We sure miss “Made in the USA 🇺🇸 products”. Can’t wait to your next exciting episode 👏 So happy to see your sweet beautiful face ❤️ Thank you for sharing 👍👍 Stay safe healthy and happy ❤️✝️🇺🇸
Thank you so much!! Oh yes, Clint Eastwood is definitely one of a kind. But boy oh boy, 1970s Han Solo is forever my love. LOL UA-cam is so weird these days. I have no control over any of it, but I am grateful to have it to post my videos and share my escapades with everyone.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. They had the prettiest stuff and now I wish I had gotten a little more of a particular print for some new kitchen curtains I want to make.
@@chrystalhenthorne8209 I'm looking for Boundless in Chateau. It's a floral with a tan background. I poked around online this morning and I found some jellyroll strips but no yardage. I have a pack of jelly rolls. I'd love another two or three yards of that print if I can find it to do my curtains. If I can't find it, I'm doing it as a valance and the low volume as the lower cafe curtain. If you got some and will part with it, I will buy it from you!
You are so much about my way of thinking. Love the detailed and whole picture thinking. Just saw a few of your videos and am inspired to sew again after having moved. My new tinier sewing / office room is getting slowly organized.. cant wait to sew again!
Thank you so much for sharing that Pamela!! I'm really happy you found some inspiration. Try making a few of the easy hemmed napkins to get yourself going again. It's a fun project and you can explore the fat quarters section of Joann and make a variety of napkins. I love making them and it's a fun way to get back into the groove.
You're welcome!! I have a few videos on getting fabric organized if you are interested. Please browse my channel homepage and you'll see several videos you might like. Thank you!
Thank you Sherri! It felt great to have a video this week! I’m going to publish at least one a week but I want to get back to two a week ASAP. Wish me luck! 😂
Some other resources for thread - Sew Yeah out of Las Vegas has great prices on Aurifil thread. Also, Check out Superior Threads. They have their own brand and it’s polyester, blends and cotton. I love their So Fine for my Free Motion Quilting and piecing. I like a super fine and thin thread for piecing so that my blocks lay super flat. It’s fun to explore all the products and options. I’m so glad that you’re back! If we didn’t live in such different places - me in Colorado and you in Virginia, I could totally hang out with you!
Thanks Valerie!! I would love to hang out in real life! Thanks for the tips! I am an affiliate with Fat Quarter Shop so I earn a small percentage on sales that go through my links. I promote them because they have a program that helps me earn part of my living. It definitely helps so i tend to shop with Kimberly as much as possible for that reason. She doesn’t have everything I like, but she has quite a bit. I will keep your resources on a list as a backup though! ❤️
You popped up in my sutbs this morn and I said everything can wait....I am watching this now! haha. So glad to see you back and you look great as usual. Thanks for sharing your beautiful fabric and true thoughts on your mind. Take care, have a wonderful weekend! :D
Oh Thank you so much much Kathy!! It felt so good to get something new made this week! And to get that bit of stash sorted out. It's been sitting in an ugly pile for months waiting for me to get to filming this video.
Thank you so much Brenda!! I was afraid it was too long, but I didn't want to cut it any more than I already did. I probably cut out about half of what I rambled on about. LOL It was fun to make something new again for everyone. I'm planning the next one now!
Loved how beautifully you have organized everything and you give us so many awesome tips on how to organize thank you again my dear friend for all your great information you always give hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy
Great to see you again! I’m working on getting all my fabrics on comic boards & some larger yardage on empty bolts I got from my local quilt shop at no charge!
Hi Patty you sure have inspired me to organize my fabric I have mostly fat quarters and some yardage I bought the comic book boards for my yardage but I did find heavy duty 4 x 6 cards on Amazon that were perfect for fat quarters.. they work amazingly well thank you so much for your inspiration!
Thanks Cindy! That's a good tip on the ready made cards! It's all about finding what works best for you. My job is to provide the inspiration! I still have another chunk of stuff to organize so more to come. I stashed my stuff here there and everywhere and doing that made it so I didn't really know what I had or how much. So getting everything together in one or two spots in my organization goal.
I've missed you!! Good to see you again. I discovered Bluprint just as they were going out of business and bought up lots of fabric also. Another industry fact, we can thank Chemstrand/Monsanto/Solutia(one company,many names) for our fiber business going overseas. Just before their patents ran out they agreed to help Pakistan, Turkey etc build plants and taught them the business of producing fiber. I was a safety equipment contract worker for 12 years at one of their plants. Once the foriegn plants were up and running (delayed due to earthquakes) the company sold off their fiber business and half of the local employees lost their jobs, including me. I have inherited yards and yards of calico fabrics that are at least 40 years old...now to decide what to do with them!!
Thank you for sharing your experience Cheri!! Oh my gosh don’t get me started on that demon known as Monsanto. 🤬 globalists are not our friends! You know exactly what I’m talking about in terms of how incredible our American produced fabrics were. We took so much pride in our work and products and I am still hopeful that will come back around.
I have used most of my Bluprint fabrics. I do have 1 pumpkin quilt kit to do it. I have lots of fabrics from Craftsy that I haven't used. I really enjoyed Mystery fat quarter boxes but haven't used them, yet.
They really did the products and kits right, didn't they? I miss them, but I do enjoy the new service. I am a subscriber and it is good to have access to the classes but it's not the same magic.
Hi Patty! Its so good to see you again. Its been a hugely busy summer for us all. I am going to try and make my own dress mannequin. Have you ever tried that? Watching you show fabrics is getting me ready for the snow to fly here (my sewing time). I am organizing my new sewing room, which I painted and hung artwork and have a design wall started. Do you have a quilting design wall set up?
Hi Annette! Great to see you again! I have not made a dress form because I don't make any clothes for myself. I've made pajama pants, and I will probably make some again this winter, but that's it. The alterations and adjustments and sleeves and necklines seem like so much. I wind up just wearing t shirts and sweat shirts to be honest. I don't have a design wall because I don't have a free wall in here to put one up. And I do small projects for the most part, so I haven't needed one thus far. I would like to make something new for my bedroom which was supposed to be a summer project that never got done. LOL Oh well. Onward and upward!
@@PattymacMakes I had a spare 8' piece of the green insulation board. So i cut it to 7' and just have it leaning against the wall. I plan to get some foam board and make a couple small ones too. Im working (a project from last winter) on a quilt for my granddaughter. The board sure helps! Yes making clothes can be hard or simple depending on the pattern. Ive made clothes my whole life practically. Glad your back on line and i am looking forward to more videos.
You may or may not want to word your statement about the cotton being grown here but shipped to Pakistan to be printed and sold back here. It's just that Pakistan as well as many countries (including our own want to purchase our country's cotton print it up and sell it but if you notice it's still about the same price per yard if the quality quilting cotton is bought)..we produce many of exported items here....but as far as textiles goes others purchase our textiles too and if one just happens to purchase it and it came from their..then....🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️from there they have purchased fabric bought buy Pakistan that the cotton was milled here. Japan, Malaysia Pakistan and many countries purchase our cotton textiles then print it up.....our companies just happen to purchase their printed fabrics. We also purchase Fabrics milled and printed here, just so happens so does the rest of the world.
I'm not following what you're saying, Linda. The complexity of the supply chain and the journey that a simple of fabric can make before it arrives in a personal sewing stash is difficult to process. Fabrics are not printed in the US anymore. It's all done over seas now, from what I understand, but I'm not a historian on the subject. I do know we used to make all our own fabrics in the US until Clinton came to power and started us down the globalization path. Which I'm not a fan of. I have items still in stash that were packed away for decades that I bought in the early 90s when I was sewing, and that fabric is incredible quality. I think the items I've been finding from Pakistan and Japan and S. Korea in stores now are beautiful, and the quality is much better than what we were getting from China. When the tariffs kicked in and Asian production moved out of China and to S. Korea, Japan and now Pakistan, the quality went way up. I'm speaking from my own general experience with the fabrics I personally purchased and used in the last 5 years and specifically about what I get in Joann.
Hi Gail. They are acid free back boards used in the comics industry to present comic books. They work well for wrapping your fabric into mini bolts. I showed them here. ua-cam.com/video/gEvTbpQK5Lo/v-deo.html
When the shopping carts were turned off, that was it. Whatever was in the cart was cancelled. It happened to so many people!! It was $3 a yard for the fabric, so very sad.
I debated heavily on whether or not to include it, but to be honest, I think it's important people understand why we don't have supplies made domestically anymore. It has not been all that long since our industries went over seas, and it started with Bill. If makes you feel any better I voted for him twice. That was before I woke up and realized what I was doing. I'm very pro American made products, and it's impossible in crafting. He's the reason why. It is a fact, and I'm sorry if you believe examining facts is political. World trade started in that administration, and and it's all but killed our country. I personally would like to have our industries back. On the upside, the tariffs on China killed their ability to own the fabric exports, and we now get cottons from all over Asia. Every place except China for the most part which makes me happy. But I'll be happiest when we stop importing altogether and make everything in the USA again. I pray it happens. I still have vintage fabric from the days when everything was still made here and it's absolutely gorgeous. I treasure those Made in America items, because they show what a shining example of pride and accomplishment we used to be.
Thank you Gina!! I'm working on it! Oh dear ole Bill. I remember when that scene played out and now that I'm older and wiser I can clearly see the lying in his eyes. LOL I couldn't resist.
I've been organizing my life and now I'm back around to the fabrics and craft supplies! Here's a cache of items I had forgotten about! Now they are organized and ready to be used. Do you have some items that need to be revisited?
Yay 😀❤️ Lovely Patty 💜, Your fabrics are so pretty and you look Amazing by the way 💜. I love the 1970’s Han Solo 👏 mine is Clint Eastwood to me he is the ultimate man lol. I watched this the day you posted it but for some reason my comment didn’t post 😞. We sure miss “Made in the USA 🇺🇸 products”. Can’t wait to your next exciting episode 👏 So happy to see your sweet beautiful face ❤️ Thank you for sharing 👍👍 Stay safe healthy and happy ❤️✝️🇺🇸
Thank you so much!! Oh yes, Clint Eastwood is definitely one of a kind. But boy oh boy, 1970s Han Solo is forever my love. LOL UA-cam is so weird these days. I have no control over any of it, but I am grateful to have it to post my videos and share my escapades with everyone.
@@PattymacMakes And we are grateful too. I’d be lost without sharing in your escapades ❤️ See ya soon, same Pat time Same Pat channel lol ❤️✝️🇺🇸
I loved and miss the beautiful fabrics and thread kits….
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. They had the prettiest stuff and now I wish I had gotten a little more of a particular print for some new kitchen curtains I want to make.
@@PattymacMakes which one? Lilly and Loom?
@@chrystalhenthorne8209 I'm looking for Boundless in Chateau. It's a floral with a tan background. I poked around online this morning and I found some jellyroll strips but no yardage. I have a pack of jelly rolls. I'd love another two or three yards of that print if I can find it to do my curtains. If I can't find it, I'm doing it as a valance and the low volume as the lower cafe curtain. If you got some and will part with it, I will buy it from you!
@@PattymacMakes I haven't come across any of that line yet....it's very pretty.
So glad you are back. I really enjoy your videos💕
Thank you Sharon! I’m getting myself back together!
Great to see you again and the fabrics were absolutely beautiful. I always enjoy your videos. Keep safe and see you next time.😀
Thank you Merry!! It was fun to revisit all these pretty fabrics!
You are so much about my way of thinking. Love the detailed and whole picture thinking. Just saw a few of your videos and am inspired to sew again after having moved. My new tinier sewing / office room is getting slowly organized.. cant wait to sew again!
Thank you so much for sharing that Pamela!! I'm really happy you found some inspiration. Try making a few of the easy hemmed napkins to get yourself going again. It's a fun project and you can explore the fat quarters section of Joann and make a variety of napkins. I love making them and it's a fun way to get back into the groove.
So good to see you! Great idea for storing fabric. See you next time.
Thank you Deborah! I had so much fun going through this cache of fabrics I had almost forgotten about.
Love your channel I'm in UK I so needed this to help me organise and use my stash better. Thank you.XX Mavis
You're welcome!! I have a few videos on getting fabric organized if you are interested. Please browse my channel homepage and you'll see several videos you might like. Thank you!
Beautiful fabrics
Thanks Angela!! I had so much fun getting them back out and revisiting them.
Very helpful, Patty! Gorgeous colors and patterns! You have great taste! Looking forward to learning and seeing more! 💙 From Cheryl in AZ
Thank you Cheryl! My taste definitely exceeds my budget, but I do what I can. LOL
Missed you
Thank you Sherri! It felt great to have a video this week! I’m going to publish at least one a week but I want to get back to two a week ASAP. Wish me luck! 😂
Oh how I miss Blueprint fabrics! 😢
I'm still so sad about that line going away!
Some other resources for thread - Sew Yeah out of Las Vegas has great prices on Aurifil thread. Also, Check out Superior Threads. They have their own brand and it’s polyester, blends and cotton. I love their So Fine for my Free Motion Quilting and piecing. I like a super fine and thin thread for piecing so that my blocks lay super flat. It’s fun to explore all the products and options. I’m so glad that you’re back! If we didn’t live in such different places - me in Colorado and you in Virginia, I could totally hang out with you!
Thanks Valerie!! I would love to hang out in real life! Thanks for the tips! I am an affiliate with Fat Quarter Shop so I earn a small percentage on sales that go through my links. I promote them because they have a program that helps me earn part of my living. It definitely helps so i tend to shop with Kimberly as much as possible for that reason. She doesn’t have everything I like, but she has quite a bit. I will keep your resources on a list as a backup though! ❤️
I love your colorful nice fabrics :-)
Thank you so much Sabine! I love them and have thoroughly enjoyed using them.
So glad you are back, sister!
Thank you Sara!!
Connecting threads has a good price on 50 cotton thread. Would love to see your vintage fabric.
That's a great tip Terri! Thank you for sharing with us! Ok! I'll plan a little vintage fabric tour!
You are looking good.
Thank you Sue! I feel wrecked and completely out of shape, but I’m going to work on that next.
You popped up in my sutbs this morn and I said everything can wait....I am watching this now! haha. So glad to see you back and you look great as usual. Thanks for sharing your beautiful fabric and true thoughts on your mind. Take care, have a wonderful weekend! :D
Oh Thank you so much much Kathy!! It felt so good to get something new made this week! And to get that bit of stash sorted out. It's been sitting in an ugly pile for months waiting for me to get to filming this video.
This was such a fun video to watch while I hand quilted my couch throw. I want to thank you for your time and energy that went into making this video!
Thank you so much Brenda!! I was afraid it was too long, but I didn't want to cut it any more than I already did. I probably cut out about half of what I rambled on about. LOL It was fun to make something new again for everyone. I'm planning the next one now!
Loved how beautifully you have organized everything and you give us so many awesome tips on how to organize thank you again my dear friend for all your great information you always give hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy
You are so kind Sandy! I love storing my fabric on bolts. It really does get me excited about making new projects!
Great to see you again! I’m working on getting all my fabrics on comic boards & some larger yardage on empty bolts I got from my local quilt shop at no charge!
That’s wonderful!! I’m so happy to be at the place in my cleaning project that I can get my fabric super organized! It feels great!
Hi Patty you sure have inspired me to organize my fabric I have mostly fat quarters and some yardage I bought the comic book boards for my yardage but I did find heavy duty 4 x 6 cards on Amazon that were perfect for fat quarters.. they work amazingly well thank you so much for your inspiration!
Thanks Cindy! That's a good tip on the ready made cards! It's all about finding what works best for you. My job is to provide the inspiration! I still have another chunk of stuff to organize so more to come. I stashed my stuff here there and everywhere and doing that made it so I didn't really know what I had or how much. So getting everything together in one or two spots in my organization goal.
I've missed you!! Good to see you again. I discovered Bluprint just as they were going out of business and bought up lots of fabric also. Another industry fact, we can thank Chemstrand/Monsanto/Solutia(one company,many names) for our fiber business going overseas. Just before their patents ran out they agreed to help Pakistan, Turkey etc build plants and taught them the business of producing fiber. I was a safety equipment contract worker for 12 years at one of their plants. Once the foriegn plants were up and running (delayed due to earthquakes) the company sold off their fiber business and half of the local employees lost their jobs, including me. I have inherited yards and yards of calico fabrics that are at least 40 years old...now to decide what to do with them!!
Thank you for sharing your experience Cheri!! Oh my gosh don’t get me started on that demon known as Monsanto. 🤬 globalists are not our friends! You know exactly what I’m talking about in terms of how incredible our American produced fabrics were. We took so much pride in our work and products and I am still hopeful that will come back around.
Fussy cut the doves and then add the (matching fabrics) and the left overs from fussy cutting pieces, that would make up really pretty.
They are so pretty aren't they? I will keep the fussy cut idea in mind, because that could be lovely!
I have used most of my Bluprint fabrics. I do have 1 pumpkin quilt kit to do it. I have lots of fabrics from Craftsy that I haven't used. I really enjoyed Mystery fat quarter boxes but haven't used them, yet.
They really did the products and kits right, didn't they? I miss them, but I do enjoy the new service. I am a subscriber and it is good to have access to the classes but it's not the same magic.
Hi Patty! Its so good to see you again. Its been a hugely busy summer for us all. I am going to try and make my own dress mannequin. Have you ever tried that? Watching you show fabrics is getting me ready for the snow to fly here (my sewing time). I am organizing my new sewing room, which I painted and hung artwork and have a design wall started. Do you have a quilting design wall set up?
Hi Annette! Great to see you again! I have not made a dress form because I don't make any clothes for myself. I've made pajama pants, and I will probably make some again this winter, but that's it. The alterations and adjustments and sleeves and necklines seem like so much. I wind up just wearing t shirts and sweat shirts to be honest. I don't have a design wall because I don't have a free wall in here to put one up. And I do small projects for the most part, so I haven't needed one thus far. I would like to make something new for my bedroom which was supposed to be a summer project that never got done. LOL Oh well. Onward and upward!
@@PattymacMakes I had a spare 8' piece of the green insulation board. So i cut it to 7' and just have it leaning against the wall.
I plan to get some foam board and make a couple small ones too.
Im working (a project from last winter) on a quilt for my granddaughter. The board sure helps!
Yes making clothes can be hard or simple depending on the pattern. Ive made clothes my whole life practically.
Glad your back on line and i am looking forward to more videos.
I bought a ton!! I'm just wrapping it today. Which fabric are you looking for? I'm on my 3rd box of comic book boards. LOL
You have me beat!! I'm into my second and that should last me a while.
@@PattymacMakes Fabric collector since 1972. I have 5 yards of Just Say No to Drugs fabric from back in the day.
You may or may not want to word your statement about the cotton being grown here but shipped to Pakistan to be printed and sold back here. It's just that Pakistan as well as many countries (including our own want to purchase our country's cotton print it up and sell it but if you notice it's still about the same price per yard if the quality quilting cotton is bought)..we produce many of exported items here....but as far as textiles goes others purchase our textiles too and if one just happens to purchase it and it came from their..then....🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️from there they have purchased fabric bought buy Pakistan that the cotton was milled here. Japan, Malaysia Pakistan and many countries purchase our cotton textiles then print it up.....our companies just happen to purchase their printed fabrics. We also purchase Fabrics milled and printed here, just so happens so does the rest of the world.
I'm not following what you're saying, Linda. The complexity of the supply chain and the journey that a simple of fabric can make before it arrives in a personal sewing stash is difficult to process. Fabrics are not printed in the US anymore. It's all done over seas now, from what I understand, but I'm not a historian on the subject. I do know we used to make all our own fabrics in the US until Clinton came to power and started us down the globalization path. Which I'm not a fan of. I have items still in stash that were packed away for decades that I bought in the early 90s when I was sewing, and that fabric is incredible quality. I think the items I've been finding from Pakistan and Japan and S. Korea in stores now are beautiful, and the quality is much better than what we were getting from China. When the tariffs kicked in and Asian production moved out of China and to S. Korea, Japan and now Pakistan, the quality went way up. I'm speaking from my own general experience with the fabrics I personally purchased and used in the last 5 years and specifically about what I get in Joann.
What are comic boards?
Hi Gail. They are acid free back boards used in the comics industry to present comic books. They work well for wrapping your fabric into mini bolts. I showed them here. ua-cam.com/video/gEvTbpQK5Lo/v-deo.html
Does anyone know the name of the song?
Which one? They are listed at the end of the description and are from Soundstripe.
You said you lost some of your lost items,did something happen? ( If so what?)...
When the shopping carts were turned off, that was it. Whatever was in the cart was cancelled. It happened to so many people!! It was $3 a yard for the fabric, so very sad.
Nice to see you back 👍
Thanks 👍
Damn. So sad for this to get unnecessarily political.
I debated heavily on whether or not to include it, but to be honest, I think it's important people understand why we don't have supplies made domestically anymore. It has not been all that long since our industries went over seas, and it started with Bill. If makes you feel any better I voted for him twice. That was before I woke up and realized what I was doing. I'm very pro American made products, and it's impossible in crafting. He's the reason why. It is a fact, and I'm sorry if you believe examining facts is political. World trade started in that administration, and and it's all but killed our country. I personally would like to have our industries back. On the upside, the tariffs on China killed their ability to own the fabric exports, and we now get cottons from all over Asia. Every place except China for the most part which makes me happy. But I'll be happiest when we stop importing altogether and make everything in the USA again. I pray it happens. I still have vintage fabric from the days when everything was still made here and it's absolutely gorgeous. I treasure those Made in America items, because they show what a shining example of pride and accomplishment we used to be.
@@PattymacMakes Amen, Patty. NAFTA killed industry in the U.S.
Your videos are so professional! I love them so much. And when Bill Clinton came on the screen… I almost peed my pants. 🤩
Thank you Gina!! I'm working on it! Oh dear ole Bill. I remember when that scene played out and now that I'm older and wiser I can clearly see the lying in his eyes. LOL I couldn't resist.