Fat Quarter Friday

One of my local fabric stores has a "fat quarter Friday" sale every week.  Buy 3, get one free.  This week I decided I needed to treat myself to a fat quarter Friday.  I needed some more yellow, orange, and blue for my newest project: the Bottled Rainbows quilt along.  I've been intrigued by this quilt ever since Rachel at Stitched in Color first mentioned it, but I didn't think I had the stash for it.  Darn if she isn't persuasive though!  She kept posting links for scraps and Kona bundles, and pretty soon I could no longer resist.  I can't WAIT until my rainbow gets here so that I can start sewing!

While I'm waiting though, I also have been trying out a new craft!  Crewel!  I've wanted to try this for a while, but I knew I wanted to start with a kit since I didn't know what I was doing.  Most of the kits out there, however, are...  a little grandma-ish.  Sorry grandmas of the world, but that's not my style!  Then I found Tako Fibers on Etsy.  Oh my goodness.  I love everything about her kits.  Super easy instructions, modern designs, and even the packaging is so amazingly adorable.  Love, love, love.  

Check this out:

I think I'm going to turn it into a pillow.  Fantastic, no?

Oh, and I'm also finally quilting my Pop Garden quilt.  Yay!

Stash Building

Look at the pretties that greeted me on my doorstep when I got home today!

These lovlies came from Hawthorne Threads & Etsy

Now, I pretty much adhere to the "I will only buy the fabric I need for a particular project" school of thought.  But...  I also discovered that I love fabrics that are either out of print, or almost, and becoming increasingly unavailable.  I love love love the Sandi Henderson Henna Garden fabric.  I had a fat quarter stack of every color sitting in my Etsy cart, but I decided to sleep on it before purchasing.  When I went back to buy it in the morning, it was gone!  I was so sad!  So into my cart went that half-yard stack of yellow/green/brown/blue/gray, and a yard of persimmon.  I'm still missing the pinks, but I feel better.

The rest of the fabric I already have specific projects in mind.  So it's not too bad, right?  Right??

Oh.  I'm also way too belatedly obsessed with the Flea Market Fancy fabric.  I seriously missed the boat on this one.  However, I am excited to say, that I won an ebay auction for one of my favorite prints, and it was only about $5!  These fat quarters are going for insane amounts of money, so I am pretty excited.  This was the culprit of my online auctioning:

Now if only I could get my hands on some of the "seeds" prints...