{"id":482,"date":"2009-09-08T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2010-05-10T20:45:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T01:45:21","slug":"nomi-of-manic-muffin-totes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/08\/nomi-of-manic-muffin-totes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomi of Manic Muffin Totes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manic Muffin Totes<\/a> is a sweet Etsy shop stocked with super cute owls, pillows and other fun quilted items. Run by Nomi, everything is handmade – all quilted items are hand quilted! All of the treasures in this shop are so cute and the attention to detail is mind blowing.<\/p>\n

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Manic Muffin Totes – Pink and Sassy lil Hoot!!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

1. Your ‘Lil Hoots’ owls and pip Squeaks are so cute it hurts, how was the idea for these wee creatures born?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My lil hoots started out as purse I designed. I found out very fast, that I hate sewing in zippers. After fighting with this one impossible zipper, I just stuffed it, sewed the owl closed, and lil Hoots were born. They are cuter as pillow\/plushies anyway.<\/p>\n

My pip Squeaks are one of my newer designs. I collect mice, so I thought I would make a mouse pincushion, after a few attempts, I actually made something really cute, and I didn\u2019t want to stick it full of pins so I gave it to my niece, who loves it. So I thought these little guys might do well on Etsy, and I gave they a try. They make really great baby shower gifts.<\/p>\n

2. Your quilted items are hand quilted! Holy cow. Where did you learn that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a self-taught quilter. A very good friend of mine gave me her grandmothers quilt books when she passed away, and I fell in love with quilting. I absolutely love to lap quilt, I average 12 stitches per inch, but I can actually get 15 stitches per inch! But that is serious over kill, and really not practical. I just like to brag that I can do it. J Quilting keeps me sane and grounded. I think it is the repetitive motion, that is much like meditating.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Gigi Pillow<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Have you always been crafty?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, but I thought I would end up being a painter.<\/p>\n

My Grandmother was a seamstress and she taught me to sew around the age of five.<\/p>\n

I owe everything I know about sewing to her. At the time, I actually remember thinking, I am not doing this when I grow up. But now look what I love to do\u2026I seriously find this funny, because I really hated sitting there having my grandmother show me how to sew on a button, or hem blue jeans. At the time I just could not imagine, wanting to sew, ugg.<\/p>\n

4. What drove you to open your shop?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My family. They were always telling me how talented I was.. And of course I would roll my eyes and say \u201cYeah, ok.\u201d<\/p>\n

After my husband started taking some of my quilts to work, and they were selling constantly, I thought \u201cWell, maybe, I can do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have been on Etsy a year now, and I am pretty pleased with my results.<\/p>\n

I am also going to have a shop in Lollishops (which is a wonderful new online website) opening soon this holiday season. I am excited about that, two shops!<\/p>\n

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\nPip Squeak<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. What are your favorite materials to work with? Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fabric of course. I love every type, texture, and designer.<\/p>\n

I have a huge wall stacked with tons of fabric. I am a very lucky girl.<\/p>\n

6. Which items in your shop now are your current faves?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My baby Bloomers and my pip Squeaks.<\/p>\n

But I do have a few new designs about to be out for the Holidays, and I am very proud of them.<\/p>\n

7. Where do you draw your inspiration for your creations from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone always has deep answers for this question.<\/p>\n

Me, I have no idea. I love to sketch, and doodle, a lot of my creations are from my sketch book. The creative part of this is turning your silly little sketch into a design template that works. Then it is all fun with fabric, pins, and needles.<\/p>\n

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\nCupcake Pillow<\/strong><\/p>\n

8. Where do you craft? Is your business crafting space separate from your personal crafting space?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have my very own room for my work. It once was a dining room which we never used, so my husband put up shelves for my much loved fabric stash, and now it is all mine. But I really hate being tied down to one room, and even though I own five sewing machines, I really don\u2019t use them much. I hand appliqu\u00e9 ,hand quilt, and hand embroider everything. After using my sewing machine for about 5 to 10 minutes I can\u2019t wait to get away from it. I wish I could say my personal space or my family\u2019s personal space never got involved in my crafting, but the truth is I can not stand to have idle hands. When ever we are watching TV, I am still either sewing or quilting. Sometimes I do forget that I stuck a quilting needle in the arm of the couch, and someone ends up getting stuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manic Muffin Totes is a sweet Etsy shop stocked with super cute owls, pillows and other fun quilted items. Run by Nomi, everything is handmade – all quilted items are hand quilted! All of the treasures in this shop are so cute and the attention to detail is mind blowing. Manic Muffin Totes – Pink […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,7],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}