I had the urge to visit my favorite quilt shops this week and couldn't resist a few things. The beginning of the week I found this pretty fabric at Las Colchas, a wonderful shop downtown in an old 1910 craftsman home. It will be perfect with a few other fabrics I bought there in the fall. By the colors you can see that I'm already thinking ahead to next Christmas :) They also have a nice selection of wools and I thought these two would be pretty to use for a few Valentine's Day items.
I made two trips to another shop I just love called Memories by the Yard, which is way over on the other side of town (about 45 minutes away). I bought the aqua and green prints with the apples the first day, and then decided I wanted to add to those two with a few complimentary prints. So, I went back yesterday. I bought the gold and the aqua to go with the apple print in those shades, but decided to wait on the companion prints to the green and rose apple print since I think I might have some fabrics here in my stash that will go well.
This time my daughter tagged along and she found these cute fat quarters that she'll be using for a few projects of her own (tote bags, for example). She bought a few that go perfectly together with the bags in mind, and then a few others "just because".I have no plans to leave the house this weekend, so I'm hoping to get some stitching done for two projects to sell at my Of Generations Past website, and then to get busy doing some sewing!
2 comments:
Joanne,
It is so nice that you and your daughter do crafts together. It is also fun to travel a distance to a favorite store and come back home with exciting new treasures.
Yummy fabrics! I can't wait to see some of the projects you are working on. Don't you wish we had more hours in a day? But then we would probably be too tired to use them all so I guess we should just get the best use out of what God has already given us. :)
Hugs ~
Heidi
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