It might be time to address some concerns if your quilting project starts to resemble food.
It's not just any food we're talking about, but the wickedly delightful kind – sweets!
Brownies, sweet rolls, cakes, cookies and puddings.
As I arrange the blocks for these pictures, thoughts of salted caramels, gingerbread, and pumpkin pie dance through my mind.
The photo shoot was over so the temptation should subside. As the brown blocks were placed into the finished bin, my mind wandered off to a whimsical world of fruitcakes, M&M-studded chocolate chip cookies, luscious strawberry pies, and fluffy pistachio pudding speckled with marshmallows.
Then I started thinking about why? How has my brain connected quilting with yummy sweets? Well, it's clever marketing, that's how and why. It's hard to resist these sweet must have fabrics when they are connected to sweet food names that we all love to eat. I bet just saying the words Jelly Roll triggers our brains to want sweets, thus causing us to impulse buy them as if they were delicious treats we could eat. Think about that for a bit.
Jelly Roll
Layer Cake
Honey Bun
Today's plan... keep my hand out of the cookie jar while I hand sew the binding to the back of my JELLY ROLL Twinkler quilt. Wish me luck, for some reason writing this post has made me hungry.
HAHA!
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I was eyeing some new to me gingerbread recipes yesterday but we're going to be leaving the state for Thanksgiving. I really don't want to be eating gingerbread for an 8 hour drive! Enjoy your sweets next Thursday!
ReplyDeleteLOL. That's probably why I have too many pounds on this ole' body! LJ here.
ReplyDeleteI'd never thought about the names of all those precuts, you are absolutely right. No wonder M&Ms are so popular at retreats. On the blogger comment issue, several of us ran an experiment earlier this week. If you reply to the comments like normal, they do go back to the commenter as long as the commenter has has shared their email on their profile. If you want to reply to this comment, I'll let you know if I get your reply.
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