Eleven Pounds of Fabric

 I get more than my fair share of e-mails from fabric sources

every day.   I love to pour through all these while drinking morning coffee.

It's a wonder I don't have a room stocked piled with fabric, but I don't.

{I think my sister has triple the amount of fabric I do.}

It's amazing how quickly I can go through fabric but that's not

surprising if you are a quilter.   Even my small lap size quilts

can take 4 yards of fabric to make.

 If Julep didn't have an interest in checking out the new

fabric I would have bet my life Derby would be checking

this stack out as soon as I put it in a good sniffing place.

 I moved the fabric from one window seat to another

to see if Julep would show an interest and as you

can see ... she does not!

 Here is my latest purchase from equilter.com.  All this was

on sale for a price better than Lancaster - plus no tax and no

shipping charge.  In my mind I got a deal!

 Most of the fabric is in two yard cuts because I needed

quilt back material.  The ship and plane fabric was on sale

and that was a last minute impulse purchase thinking it would

be cute as a baby quilt for a boy.

 I'm not afraid of bright colors and big prints for a quilt back.

The yellow has raised gold flowers and is simply beautiful.

 The gray and silver fabric in the upper left hand side is heavier

than I expected but I think it still will work. 

I finally decided I want the bigger room in the new house

so I'll have plenty of room to stock collections of fabric.  As

silly as that may seem to some {non-quilters} it's important

to have a wide variety of colors and prints.  For example, the new

project pictured [below] was a struggle to find a set

of complimentary fabrics from my existing

stash {and I'm still not happy with what I pulled}.  

 This one is now finished, pressed, photographed,

measured, and in a nice plastic zip lock bag ...

just waiting for a new home.

 Close-up of the fabric and blocks.

Tonight Wilson and I will be joining friends JoAnn and Lloyd 

at the Bayside Quilters opening reception for the weekend quilt show in

Oxford.  This compliments the Oxford Garden tour.  So

have a nice weekend and stay tuned for some awesome quilt

pictures I will post tomorrow.