Oh inspiration!
One of the quilting trends that I love, love, love is all of the low-volume fabrics being combined and used as backgrounds. You can see my favorite examples, here, here and here. Now part of what I love is how scrappy these quilts are without being overwhelming. I really wanted to make something like this but since I haven't been quilting for all that long in the grand scheme of things, I don't have a scrap bin full of wonderful, whimsical low-volume fabrics. So, I did what any fabric loving girl with a vision would do, I went to the fabric store!
A Boat Load of Fabric.
This particular adventure involved pretty much every fabric store in town. I had so much fun hunting down all those fabrics that I would normally shy away from because they wouldn't pop against a white background, my heart was filled with joy as I filled the cart. The husband even got in on the act and pulled me over to the novelty prints section at Fabric Depot (how had I not been over there before!) and I found fun letters and little ants! I also picked up a big 'ole scrap bag at Cool Cottons and found several more treasures in there.
After several weeks of collecting whilst purchasing for other projects, and throwing in things from my stash, I ended up with a pretty impressive pile of fabrics.
Now to cut it all out.
Wait, you say, what happened to those other projects you teased us with? I thought you were going to work on one of those? Well so did I. However, I was having a positively awful time choosing between the three and really nothing was really jumping up and down saying, "Make ME!", so I ended up going with this because I feel confident that I am going to love how it turns out!
Fabric and Football
This time of year there are two things that tend to consume most of my time, fabric and football. I have been a season ticket holder for Duck Football pretty much ever since I left school and couldn't get the free student tickets anymore. But when the Ducks are away the day is spent in front of the TV soaking up ever bit of college football we can. The husband has been know to take the TV from my craft room and move it to the living room so that we can enjoy with additional sports bar effect. These days are also perfect for cutting fabric. So that's what I did and guess what? I finished :D
I am hoping to get in a few finishes before I start piecing this, but who knows!
