More fabric

Isn't this gorgeous? It's Shell Montage by Phillip Jacobs for Rowan. This fabric feels so warm and summery. Now that we are fully in the middle of fall, with the rain and falling leaves, I feel like this fabric is even more yummy! Don't know how I am going to use it, but I love looking at it for now!

Birthday fabric.

My birthday was about ten days ago but I am a lucky girl to have birthday fabric keep coming my way! I saw my sister today and she gave me some gorgeous fabric I have wanted for awhile. It finally arrived in the mail and I am so excited!!!

I actually posted about this fabric and how much I was drooling over it back in August. Now here it is!!!! AHHH! So exciting!

In all my excitement to use this fabric, I completely forgot to share it with you! My sister gave me this fabric for my birthday. Not sure what it's called but I already used half of it in a secret project. Well, not secret, but I can't quite share the project quite yet!

For those of you in the S.F. Bay area, don't forget tonight's meeting of the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild at it's new location, New Pieces quilt shop in Berkeley. Hope to see you there!

It seems that whenever I hang out with my sister we go fabric shopping. Lately that has been about once a week.  Let's look at what I brought home this week!

I love this fabric! I found it at Joann's and I've been meaning to get some. I want to make pillowcases out of this fabric since it is so soothing and pretty.

I also got some Christmas fabric. Every year my b.f. and have a two Christmas trees. A fake 6ft. tree and a "sad, Charlie Brown" tree. The "sad" tree is a tradition my b.f. started a few years ago and now we have both every Christmas.
I found this great Charlie Brown Christmas fabric:

I'm going to make a mini tree skirt for the "sad" tree, which is usually a very small potted tree. I cannot wait to make this, it is going to be sooo cute!!!!

The last bit of fabric I picked up was Hello Kitty Christmas fabric. I am a huge Hello Kitty fan and could not pass up this total cuteness!!!!

Thankfully every fabric I chose was on sale so I spent less than $10! Yeah!!!

sites, posts and stuff

It's on ongoing love affair. Let's see what's going on with this affair today.

I recently found out on of my favorite Japanese fabric companies has an office in Emeryville, CA which is like five minutes away from my best friends house! Oh Lecien, I love you!

I called their Emeryville office a few days ago to see if they were open to the public. Turns out I can set up an appointment for a tour but can't buy anything since I don't have a resale license. Of course I can buy their fabric in one of the local quilt stores, so not a big loss!

I also found this great site selling all things japanese cutesy!

Finally, check out this amazing blog, trueup.net. A great way to see amazing fabrics coming out, already out and the different ways to use them. Great inspiration!

Focus on fabric!

This week join me as I look through my fabric stash! Today we are going to look at my collection of yellow fabric. I began buying bits of yellow fabric here and there, wanting to eventually make a quilt all made of this beautiful color.

The yellow dot fabric in the picture above is from the Pokemon quilt I made for DJ over a year ago (please see post from June 10, 2009).

In the picture below is a yard or more of this very brilliant and bold yellow. Oh, I love it so! It's almost an egg yolky kind of yellow. I also got this fabric for DJ's quilt but it was way too girly to use in his quilt!


The fat quarter of yellow leaf fabric below I bought at JoAnn's probably over six months ago when these were on sale. I also love a sale!!


My favorite of all is this yellow umbrella and bow fabric called, Aunt Grace Fifteenth Anniversary Collection 2006 from the Collection of Judie Rothermel for Marcus Brothers Textiles Inc. I love the whimsy of the bows, and the fun of what I like to think of as parasols.



Join me again tomorrow for more fabric fun!