Interview with Danielle Spurge

Super cleaver creative lady of The Merriweather Council

I am a 22 year old recent college grad living in Boston, MA. I like traveling near and far, watching crime solving tv shows, drinking iced lattes and listening to cheesy pop music. I craft and run my business out of my apartment!

The name Merriweather Council was a code phrase my friends and I used for “Gril Scouts” which we thought was uncool to talk about at school. We were the only ones we knew who had stuck with girl scouting through high school and we felt weird about it because we were extremely impressionable, so we called it The Merriweather Council.

“The most fun you can have in a hoop.” – love that. 🙂

Going shopping for supplies always gets my wheels turning – I think it’s the colors. My imagination goes into overdrive and I have to get home and get to work!

I have a small studio space set up in my living room. I have my sewing machine and my fabric closet and an ironing board… lots of stuff for making things. It’s kind of messy but I like it that way, it feels more approachable.

I do love that phrase! I enjoy being able to work on my own time, and whenever I feel most creative, unscheduled creativity is the best kind! I also enjoy working towards making this a really viable lifestyle, sot just a dream.

I started sewing at a very young age, but I’m not exactly sure. Probably six or seven.

Sometimes I just pick randomly, other times I work with color schemes. I just pick them as I go along, I don’t plan it out.

I really love all my patchwork buntings best. They are very time consuming but I love the way they turn out so unique!

Yes, I’ve done some markets here in Boston over the past summer. It was fun!

I think selling online is great for telling the item’s story, in person sometimes people won’t ask questions and it can be awkward to just speak at them but they don’t know what they are looking at. Also, online I can show you the best picture of an item, in real life the lighting at the venue affects what you see. In person events are awesome but so much can affect the outcome – weather, day of the week, time of day, etc… Online I have a lot more control.

Just get started! Thinking about doing something will never get you anywhere. You need to start somewhere. Even if your first few attempts don’t work out, you’ll learn something. 

I promise. Keep going.

Hmmm… maybe Minnie Mouse. I was in Disney World recently and we went to

visit “her house” and she had a whole room dedicated to quilting!

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Thanks again to Danielle for giving up your time to talk to the Crafted peeps. 🙂