Happy Easter... and some more fabrics

Happy Easter.  Today was a nice day spent with my family.  It was relaxing with church then dinner and then just chilling.  It is beautiful today so my Easter outfit was perfect.  About two weeks ago when I stopped in to Kohls to return something I decided to just take a quick look around.  I always have to check out the clearance section just to see what they have and I found a dress that started at $68 and was marked down to just $6.40!  It fit perfectly so I couldn't pass it up.  And just yesterday I went back to see if I could find a cute sweater to go with it and score, a cute one for just $12.  With my Kohls cash (which was left from January) and my coupon I paid just .39 for it.  So my Easter outfit only cost me $6.79.  I love sales!  My little silver shoes are from Aldo and were a gift from my sister for Christmas.  And I carried a little clutch that I made.

So I showed you some fabrics that I picked for my sister's quilt already, but I needed to find some more to add to it so I spent an afternoon and headed to another fabric store not far from me.  There I picked up some fabrics for a backing that I fell in love with (and wasn't looking for) that I will show when the quilt is finished (tehehe).  I wandered around for a while and found some great fabrics that fit with the theme that I have for my sister's quilt.

So these are the ones that I felt worked with the theme.  From the left we have Wild Thyme by Carolyn Gavin for P&B Textiles, then the top lighter one is Robert Kaufman "Fusions", below is something by Faye Burgos (it was cut off), top again is color splash by Hoffman California, and the blue is by Timeless Treasures.  The Color splash came out of my stash but I just realized that it fit with the others and I am totally kicking myself for only getting a half a yard of the Faye Burgos print... I may need to go get a little more.

All together I like the feel I get from them.  I guess I should get started on her quilt now that I have a good selection of fabrics to work with.

While I was out this week I also picked up a few fabrics to go with my I-spy swap fabrics.  I participated in an I-spy swap about a month ago set up by Midnight Maker.  I was very excited when my fabrics arrived in the mail and immediately laid them out to see all the fabrics.

Here is a selection of them.  I have some others to add in but was told that my nephews would not appreciate the pink dresses or shoes or purses.  Humph... I guess I will save those for if I need to make a girl I spy quilt.  But I think my flamingos are awesome

And these bugs totally rock

Oh and these little fish I picked up at the store the other day I just love

I also have some lobster fabrics and trains and some other ones that will work great.  I saw some blue crab fabrics that I need to pick up too because I mean we do live near the water.  And I found some more of the road signs but in a yellow on yellow form super cheap so I grabbed that too ($1.75 for a fat quarter!).

Well that is an update on my fabric habit.  I think I need to avoid the fabric store... except to go and get more of that one print, haha.  I guess I should go get sewing.

Super Bolt Sale!

This weekend is the "Super Bolt Sale" at my LQS.  It opened at 10 am and so I was there at 10:15 and really surprised at the number of cars in the parking lot.  During the sale, the put a ton of fabrics in their classroom and each fabric is only $5 or $5.29 a yard.  And it is fabrics from all collections, including batiks!  Also, all of their end of bolt rolls are an additional 35% off.  So this is the time to pick up some fabrics for backings, but I was good.  I really limited myself because I am trying very hard to use stuff from my stash.

I picked up these six pieces of fabric.  Not too bad since there were so many to choose from.  I was really tempted with all of the end of bolt rolls, but I had a purpose and I (mostly) stuck to it.



The panel I just fell in love with.  I absolutely love aprons and this "Saucy Circle Apron" by Timeless Treasures Fabrics was too cute to pass up.  I am sure I can make one like it, but the retro style of the orange and yellow just made me smile.  I should have picked up a coordinating print to go with it to make it reversible.... hmmm.... another trip this weekend maybe.

The space print is called "Space: The New Frontier" by Benartex.  My 6 year old nephew has recently fallen in love with stars and planets.  (It probably helps that my sister, his other Aunt, bought him all space stuff for Christmas including a telescope) and so I figured I would combine it with the collection of space in my stash and make him a fun quilt.

The roll is an end of bolt piece, 1 1/3 yard of Kona cotton in a cream, almost off white color.  I am really trying to add some solids ( I have almost none!) to my stash and what better way then picking up a piece at a discount?

I have no idea what I will do with the batik piece, Timeless Tonga Teal.  I just loved the color and movement in it.  (I said I was almost good)

And the last two pieces I picked up for my backing of the retro quilt.  I grabbed a piece of the quilt and brought it with me to the sale.  I laid it on the table and stared at it and the fabrics.  I had a few people ask where the fabric was, thinking the quilt was a fabric panel.  I wanted 2.5 yards of each the pink and the blue, but the girl cut it wrong and I ended up with 2 yards of the pink and 2.5 of the blue.  There wasn't enough left of the pink to re cut it.  I think I will be able to make it work, I just have to change my idea a little (it will probably change about 10 times before I am done anyway)  I am hoping I will be able to get the quilt to full or queen size.  right now, it is not even twin.  I guess buying the backing is a push in the right direction to get back to it.

So overall, not too bad.  I restrained myself well and only added a little to my stash.

This year so far I have bought...
before today I would say about 10 yards of fabric.
Today I added 9 1/3 yards.

I have used from my stash this year... (an estimate in yards)
2.5 - Juliets quilt and shapes
1.5 - Valentine quilt
1 - Valentine pillow
.5 - taggy blankets (plus ribbon from my stash)
.25 taggy ball (plus ribbon from my stash)
.25 - fun little project to be talked about later
.25 - another fun little projects to be talked about later
.5 - two clutch purses
.25 - mini quilt for April
.25 - Caroline mini quilt

I have not bought any batting because I still have about 5 or so yards of warm and natural 100" wide left to use, nor have I bought any poly-fill.  I also have a good selection of interfacing to use up.

There may be some others in there, but I can't remember at the moment.  My goal is to use more from my stash then what I buy.