Fabric Indulgence

I went to the fabric store to get a new light bulb for my sewing machine and came out with these two delicious pieces of fabric. And the best part is that they were on sale for half price. I did remember the light bulb too. Bonus!

Quilt Show

Yesterday I went to our local quilt show. They have lots of vendors so of course, I had to get a few souvenirs. These are all fabrics with characters that could end up in the doorways of wonky houses. I love the pig fabric. Maybe the next project will be pig styes that aren't my studio!
I am thinking of going back today to get pictures. Yesterday I just looked and visited.

New Fabric

Fabricland had a 40% off sale on quilting fabrics and this is what I came home with yesterday. I particularly like the orange on the left but it doesn't show up as nicely in the picture as in real life. The butterflies are gold and really sparkle. The green ladybug fabric is very cute and I have dyed lots of green that will probably match the background. The dots on the two dotted fabrics are printed on an angle and I think they'll make nice borders, among other things.

If you have children or grandchildren who are interested in cartooning you might want to check out my son's animated drawing lessons at Follow Me Cartooning . He also has some games and animations at Frolic Media.

Back to the Stars

When we were in Winnipeg yesterday I stopped in Fabricland to see if I could find any border fabric since it seems that Joannes has no more of the one I really wanted. It's the one on the left side. The top left is a hand dyed piece that I made last week. I like it but maybe it is a bit dull. The one on the top right is the piece I bought yesterday. I like the color but the pattern seems a bit rigid and square. I might try a second dye session to see if I can get a bit more contrast between the yellow and brown. On this one the brown pretty well covered the yellow.



Of course, you can't go to a fabric store and only get one piece. The picture is much more dull than the real fabric. The one in the middle has a nice golden glow. The rainbows are much much brighter. They will find their way into my next wonky quilt I'm sure.

New Fabric

I went to Fabricland yesterday to get some black thread. It is not possible to go into a fabric store that has a sale on quilt fabric and only buy thread. I came out with these but may have to go back next week and get more. They had some beautiful fabrics at 40% off. I am starting to collect stripes and the green, yellow and pink really caught my eye. The orange is for borders on wonky quilts. I really like how it framed the last one but I am running short. As for the circles, you can never have too many dot and circle fabrics, right?

New Floor

One of the reasons we went to Thompson was to get out of the house while new linoleum was being put into the kitchen-living room area of our house. When we got home it looked like this.



I am quite happy with it. It is a lot darker than what we have had for the last twenty years but it certainly doesn't show dust the way the old one did. Also, we have so many windows that our house has lots and lots of light so a bit darker is not a problem.


I bought some fabric at a quilt store in Plumas and more in Thompson. Then when I got home I found a huge fabric sale going on and this is the result of all three shopping sessions. I may go back to the sale because quilting fabric is on at $3.95/meter and that's hard to beat. I was not crazy about most of the colors and designs but there are a couple more I might like. They also had unbleached cotton very cheap but I'm not sure if it's a fine enough weave that I want to buy it for dyeing. I may get a few yards to try it out and buy more if it works well.