Sew Inspired, LLC - Sleepless Crafter

I often find fabric that I really like and I just can’t seem to picture how it would look in a quilt.  I have searched for quilting software that could easily drag photos of fabric into the blocks to see what it would look like, but only found really expensive software.  I decided to use PhotoShop. I found a quilt pattern that I really like by Janet Houts, found on Bear Creek Quilting Company, called Savoy. 

I am a member of the facebook group “ Purely Primitive Dolls ,” with Barb Moore, author of the book “ Purely Primitive Dolls .”  She put on a challenge to follow her book, step-by-step and make an extreme primitive doll.  The only rules were to follow her instructions step-by-step, no skipping or cutting corners, and to document each step as we went along.  I accepted the challenge, and it really was a challenge.  Barb said to really put your emotions into it, so I decided to make a doll that represented me and all the pain I have been through.  I lost my mom to ALS two-and-a-half years ago, and now I have lost my two oldest daughters to my ex-husband who lives thousands of miles away.