So one of my goals for the year was to not buy much fabric unless I needed it to finish a project. I’ve been to two quilt shops in two weeks. How’d I do? Meh.
At One Block Over, I got this….
The brown I thought would go with the mystery quilt. The Halloween fabric I thought I would bypass and then Kelli announced “Look Mom fat quarters”. I caved.
I also save this fire truck fabric. I really liked it. I so often make a fireman related quilt for the Fireman’s breakfast and I thought this would be perfect. How easy would it be to cut this apart and then add some star block in between.
I know some of you will ask about the fabric so I took a picture of the selvage edge.
I ended up at Red Roxy in Decorah with the hope of finding some good batiks to finish my Scrap Crystals and Mystery quilt. I bought these but still don’t know how I feel about the mystery quilt. These weren’t my dream pieces. I should learn that if I want batiks in my area I really need to go to Crazy to Quilt in Cedar Falls.
Do you see the little bag with ABCs on it? Want to know what’s inside? I looked and was in love. It was this….it’s little ABC clips like clothespins. I know they are for organizing and binding in a quilt room but……best yet I want to get a little basket and keep them in my sewing room. Carver isn’t big enough for them yet but someday he will be. I want them there to keep him occupied if I want to sew. He can clip them around the edge of the basket in alphabetical order. He can find the letters to his name. PERFECT for a Grandma or mom to have in her “keep them busy arsenal.
I bought more than I wanted but nothing that I won’t use. So it goes. I do wish I was a little more in love with my Mystery quilt options. Ah…something will catch me eventually….right?
My Decorah day was great for thrifting. Stop back tomorrow and see all of the goodies I got.
The firetruck fabric is cute. Can’t wait to see what you do with it.
Some great fabric finds for sure, and the fire trucks are perfect for cutting apart. Cute clips
The firetruck fabric is cute. And I love the clips. I have the alpha bitties from Fat quarter Shop but they dont hook on at all. I love the clips to number your pieces. Would like numbers and letters. Do they have both?