Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Expensive Post Day

I am sure the lady at the Post Office was a little sorry that she ended up with me! A mixture of Bee Blocks (finally!) and the UFO's! On their way from me to you!


I had fun packaging these all up knowing that someone will be finishing them :)

A parcel arrived yesterday for me - again! And there is still another to arrive. This one contained 1 Jelly Roll of Central Park - it's delicious, 1 Jelly Roll of Punctuation - I adore the colour palette, and yardage of Punctuation (for the back of the ABC quilt) and Dr Seuss (birthday present for my nephew Shaun). I've still got a little more fabric to arrive as well as Camille Roskelley's book Simplify. And then I am done. Promise. (Except for maybe a little bit more yardage of Central Park to use as binding...)

What makes you buy fabric? Do you buy fabric you like? Or do you have to have a plan of something to make before you buy? Just curious. Generally I like to plan something first, and then buy the fabric... then I usually post it note the fabric with what I am planning to make so I don't forget. The fabric I impulse buy tends to be the fabric that remains unused because it never had a purpose. I try not to do that anymore! What I do plan to do this year though is make more quilts for us - so I've been buying fabric I truly love and know will suit our home. 

Happy sewing everyone!

5 comments:

  1. Ooops, sorry about the cost of the postage! We will love you for it if that helps. I'll be hanging out at the post box every day now.

    Now I buy fabrics that I like, not for a certain project. I decide what to use them for later on. Sometimes as a range or just mixed up.

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  2. i am guilty of buying fabric only because i like it and then trying to figure out what to do with it afterward!!!

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  3. Ooh I have been shopping this week, now what did I buy? Some fabric for a couple of projects and some just because I love them!

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  4. I really do usually have a plan when I buy fabric. Often it's a fairly vague kind of plan, but some kind of plan at least. Then the trouble starts when I see a photo on someone's blog or on flickr of something else made with the same fabric and I start to think...hmm..maybe i should do that insstead...and all too often the fabric ends up sitting in the cupboard while I try to make up my mind and move onto new projects in the meantime!

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  5. Just found your blog I am an American Jane Jukie and have made lots of her quilts as you can see if you visit my blog. I shall enjoy watching your hexagon quilt I am making a similar quilt at the moment
    Best wishes
    Liv

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