The Quilting Conundrum

I do not quilt. I have no interest in quilting--it's far too detailed and takes far more time than I have. Heck, until I made face masks a few weeks ago, I hadn't even touched a sewing machine since I was a young teenager.

And yet Facebook thinks I quilt and so does Bluprint (formerly known as Craftsy).

I don't know if it's because I knit and I used to crochet or if something else triggered the algorithms, but I've been getting quilting emails and quilting group suggestions for ages!

And it's only going to get worse.

It's my fault. I heard that fat quarters material is good for face masks and that's what quilters use. Finding material has been hard! Everything I tried to order at Joann's was out of stock. Everything I tried to order at Michael's was out of stock. I found a bunch of fabric companies online, but I'd never heard of any of them before and I wasn't sure I trusted them. I ended up buying fabric from Etsy and eBay, but I didn't get a lot of variety (eBay) or I didn't get a lot of fabric I liked (Etsy).

So when Bluprint reopened their online store with a nice coupon, I went shopping and bought fat quarters cotton fabric to use for face masks. I also got a cutting mat, thread, and some magic clips to make sewing masks a little easier.

You know where this is going to lead, right? And it already has. Last week, on the same day my order arrived, Bluprint sent me an email with a link to May's quilting patterns. Gah!

The patterns were cute. Really. But I don't have the patience to cut and sew little pieces together. In fact, I'd told my dad a couple of weeks earlier that sewing wasn't relaxing for me like knitting was. Sewing stresses me out! But I will now be inundated with quilting emails. I wonder how long it takes for Facebook to kick in again with quilting group suggestions.