TheCherryChic: It's Been A While

Friday, November 14, 2008

It's Been A While

I've gonna try this again!!! I had such good intentions when I started my "blog" but life gets busy sometimes and I find it hard to do the things I have to do everyday. Now with cold weather and more time indoors maybe I can concentrate more on it.

My son Will, who has autism started preschool and believe me we've had our hands full with that. He's FINALLY liking it.... actually LOVING it but we've had a struggle with the school system getting him the services he is entitled to and needs. I feel like I stay at school as much as he does now fighting with the "Big Wigs" trying to get him the speech therapy and the one on one aide he so desperately needs. I think now we've got that going (I'm keeping my fingers crossed) but it's been far from easy. I stay on the phone with teachers, school administrators and anyone else that will listen to my desperate cries for help. It's a shame how hard you have to fight to get that "appropriate education" that your child needs. I think the school district we're in just doesn't understand autism. Thank goodness we have had a wonderful teacher and classroom aide who is on our side and see how much potential our son has.

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I am also trying to get some new things on eBay and Etsy. My user-ID on both sights in "thecherrychic" and if you love vintage linens and textiles you need to check me out. I have got a ton of new "old" stuff to get listed and maybe now that things have calmed down at school, I'll finally be able to get back in the groove. Let's hope so at least.

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A Little Bag of "Rag" Knowledge

1. Cutter Bedspread. LOTS of people use vintage chenille and the old cotton that bedspreads were made out of for the fabric. I come across a LOT of bedspreads that have a hole or two but still have lots of fabric left to them. If I say “cutter” that usually means that the damage is too major to save the piece as a bedspread and would need to be used for crafting or for the fabric use.
2. A “cutter quilt piece”. Sometimes I come across an old quilt that there are only parts of the quilt worth using. I try NOT to EVER cut a quilt even when they are worn…but sometimes you have to. When I do, I sell “sections” or “ pieces”. These are big enough for ornaments, hearts or some small projects that you might not need a whole cutter quilt for, but just a small amount of fabric
3. A “Make Do” quilt. In this area, I find a lot of what I call “Make -Do” quilts. These were the one’s that truly “made do” on what they had to use Some of the old crafters have used old muslin feed and flour sacks, sheets or whatever they could for the backing . The pretty printed cotton feed sacks for the blocks. Salvaged pieces of dresses or old suits for the some of the pieces. They even used “strings” or strips of fabric (because that’s all they had) to piece a top. Some have taken a worn out quilt and used it for the “batting” Remember they made these for warmth usually. They “recycled” long before it was “the green thing” to do. But they did it out of necessity. These old quilts are really a important par of rural America
4. A “quilt” is a top piece of fabric (usually with a pattern) and backing of fabric with a batting in the middle. Some are hand stitched. Others are machine stitched and some are hand “tied” where stitches are pulled through and “tied” on the other side. They are also called “tacked” quilts.
5. A quilt top is the “top” area of the quilt without batting or a backing. Quilt tops have been pieced (either by hand or machine) and are the “beginning” of a quilt and the pattern that you see on top.
6. A cutter quilt is a quilt that has damaged areas (holes, fabric deteoriation, stains and wear) that can be “cut” and the fabric used for crafting.