In 2016 Jake and I found out we were pregnant with baby #2. When we found out it was a girl, my mind went wild. Let me take a few steps back. Before Jake and I started having kids, what I did in my free time was a lot of crafts. I loved going to Hobby Lobby, Michael's and Joann's and buying craft supplies and creating whatever came to my mind. I started small with faux flower arrangements, wreaths, and other small crafts.
I always wanted to learn to crochet, as I had tried to knit when I was about 10 and never go the hang of it. I was always dropping stitches and ripping it out. So one day I took a trip to Joann's and bought myself my first set of crochet hooks and some yarn and taught myself how to crochet. Or at least I thought I was teaching myself to crochet! I started a basic blanket for myself and couldn't figure out why it wasn't even and starting to look like a triangle. That is until my sister told me I was skipping one of the most important parts of crocheting. Your turning chain! When we found out we were pregnant with our first baby, I started to crochet a baby blanket with super fuzzy fun yarn (something a crochet beginner shouldn't be using of course). I started that blanket on November 30,2014 the day we announced we were pregnant. I never ended up picking that blanket back up. We later miscarried out first baby on December 9, 2014.
I also always wanted to learn how to sew, but never wanted to spend the money on my own sewing machine, and never really knew what I wanted to make by sewing, just knew I wanted to learn how to sew by hand and machine. Finally in 2015, I splurged and bought myself my first sewing machine! I was told by a Joann Fabric's worker that there was going to be a major sale on sewing machine and this beautiful Singer Sewing machine was going to be about half price or more on sale. Of course, when I heard of such a good sale I couldn't turn it down, and from there it was all down hill. I started going to local resale shops, and thrift stores and finding fabrics I loved that I just couldn't pass up. Something switched in me after we lost our first baby. I went to town on sewing everything. I also taught myself how to sew. As I still have a lot to learn and am taking sewing lessons, I started out basic. I took all of those vintage fabrics I bought and just started cutting squares. Eventually I turned all those squares into my first little patchwork quilt. I was and still am very proud of the first little quilt I sewed. I kept it in the cradle next to my bed that my baby was supposed to be in waiting to get pregnant with my next baby. I started to sew other quilts and bibs and a little dress.
Fast forward a few more months and we got pregnant with Sawyer and I started to make him a vintage airplane quilt and a little pillow to put in his nursery. I still hadn't picked crochet back up yet. After having Sawyer I slowed down on everything besides working and being his mommy and figuring my life out being a new mom. Fast forward again, when we found out Sadie was a girl! First, I was so excited I got to give my quilt to a little baby girl after all, but a girl opened up a whole new door to fun things to make. I was getting so much inspiration. I started to sew her a quilt, making a floral mobile, Great Grandpa Brower deer antlers with flowers and a crochet blanket with a peach heart in the center. That was when Heartland Design was started. Sadie was just a few months old and I had loved crocheting her blanket. So I started making a blanket for a friend of mine and her new baby. Then another baby God laid on my heart to make a blanket for.
It was slow but it was a start. Blankets turned into animals, stockings, dish scrubbies and just about everything and anything you could think of. When I wanted to open a shop I couldn't think of a good name. Heartland wasn't something too creative but I like it, but it was also common. After about a year in our new house I decided it was time for a change with Heartland, so I changed the logo then I decided it needed a name change as well. Being in the country now and such a small town the only thing I could keep thinking was fields of wildflowers. With crocheting and sewing both being a passion of mine I wanted to be able to incorporate both of them into one name, but what do they have in common. Stitching! That's where Stitching Wildflowers came to be. Stitching Wildflowers has been a lot of custom orders, but with a shift in life I'm working towards just creating a few certain things Stitching Wildflowers is known for. One of them being the blanket I first made for Sadie before she was born. So many different color options for baby boys and baby girls along with different sizes! There are a few more ideas swirling around in my head that I'm hoping to create here in the very near future that I cannot wait to share with you all! Stay tuned.
Until then, I want to end this with a prayer for you.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Today I pray for each person that is reading this post. Whether they are thinking they would like to start some sort of small business up, they already have an established small business but would like to grow it bigger but they don't know where to start in growing it bigger, or even if their small business is booming and are a huge take off point and they are doing wondering and expanding in so many areas. I also pray for those who are looking to either get out of their small business, as it may not be doing as well as they hoped or that they just don't have the time to put into it anymore do to life situations that only you know. I pray that they find the wisdom and guidance in all the areas for their dreams. I pray that if they are struggling and don't know where to turn that they turn to you first. I pray that they find peace in any route their business is going no matter what direction it is going, and that they know that it is your will no matter what direction it will go, or the time it will take to get there. Please bless and comfort those who are reading this. In Jesus name, Amen.
xoxo.
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