\u00a0 Just wanted to share a little behind the scenes…. \u00a0 These first few weeks of January, Moda (the company I buy most fabric from) previews their upcoming holiday and seasonal fabrics that will be released throughout the entire year. I have to order any seasonal or Christmas now, or I won’t be able to get…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-ornament-girls-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThese first few weeks of January, Moda (the company I buy most fabric from)<\/em> previews their upcoming holiday and seasonal fabrics that will be released throughout the entire year. I have to order any seasonal or Christmas now, or I won’t be able to get enough for a kit.<\/strong> My rep gives me a few fabric swatches, but most of it is on paper only.
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\n\u00a0So I spend about 2 weeks cutting up their catalog to shreds, trying to put together about a year of any seasonal themed kits – and I’m not going to lie.. it is REALLY hard.<\/strong> The hard part is choosing and coordinating fabrics when I don’t even know exactly what the ornament will be yet.
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\nEven with fabrics that are coordinating, you just never know exactly<\/em> how they will look together on an ornament – maybe they won’t contrast enough? Maybe a pattern won’t show the way I expected it to?<\/em> Or, maybe that background that looked white in the pictures is actually a cream, and it ends up looking terrible<\/em> with the other fabrics I ordered to go with it.
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\nOr… what if it turns out we will need 32 pieces of a particular fabric instead of 24 like I planned. EEK! That can mean the difference between a 425 yard order and a 500 yard order.<\/strong>
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\n(I have really messed this up with past orders\u2026 and getting it wrong with hundreds of yards of each fabric is a really big mistake!)<\/em>
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\nAnd…. am I guessing right, how many members we will have 10 months from now?
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\nWhat if I ordered too little, and there aren’t enough kits? What if I order too much?\u00a0 Either could amount to a very costly mistake.<\/em>
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\nWhat if, what if, what if! I am the queen of second guessing myself!<\/strong>
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\nI try to plan out any new patterns in advance of this time of year, so that I can hopefully look at the new fabrics and then bring them into the new pattern ideas. It doesn’t always work out that way, but that’s the goal.
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\nWhen all this fabric starts arriving, what usually happens is.. I realize I got it right with some of it, and I\u2019m delighted\u2026 and I realize I got it totally wrong with others, and I freak out, and then I promise myself that next year will be easier and I will do a better job and it won\u2019t be so stressful.
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\nAnd here I am, the next year, and I think I\u2019m even more stressed! lol. I had to take my eyes away from these little paper squares for a few minutes and I just thought you guys might find this interesting! Oh, and please wish me luck!
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\nI hope whatever my fabric choices end up being for the coming holiday kits, that you will love them. :D<\/strong>
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