I’m taking a sewing class this month, on Wednesday nights from 6:30-8:30. I had visions of working on an apron or something when I first signed up, but when the instructor started rattling off project ideas, and mentioned “quilt,” I jumped on it.
“A QUILT! YES! A QUILT WOULD BE PERFECT!!” I practically screamed it at the poor lady, and for the next hour or so, I trawled the shop for fabrics. I’m quite picky when it comes to textiles, so while I absolutely love my base fabric, I’m not quite as thrilled with some of the others I settled on. However, I will continue to shop this week at a few other fabric stores until I find the world’s most perfect mixture of gold, grey, blue, and cream. Sounds strange, right? Well, here’s my base fabric:
Gold Morning Glory from Amy Butler.
The pattern is fairly large, so that each flower is about 5 inches in diameter.
So since I’m not much of a pattern person, I pretty much want to use solids for the rest of the fabrics. But the quilt lady said I need some pattern for “pop” so I chose a few others. But now I don’t like them.
Sigh. This is SO difficult. And I haven’t even started sewing!
Funny that you mention this today, as yesterday I stumbed upon this etsy shop and instantly thought of you: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5869127 .
Given the specificity of what you’re looking for, you probably won’t find it here, but you will find SO many fun fabrics. It actually made me (the girl who can’t sew on a button) want to learn how to sew!
–A
Love your base fabric!
When you come up this weekend, there is a fabulous fabric/quilting store right here in Scotts Valley.
Love,
Mom
What about a stripe with a few of the colors of the base fabric in it? Stripes go with everything.
Way to go! Throttle up from zero to quilt-speed your first time out. The base fabric/concept sounds nice. It sounds like a designer project.