Shop Hop

I found a list written on what looks like a piece of calculator tape - I think it's a list of what I bought at a Shop Hop past. I think from the items that it was around 2001 or 2002. It's very detailed!

Painted Pony
Pigma pen
1 yard teal & brown 18th c. repro
4 fat quarters - brown, pale blue & white, pink swirl, red butterfly
$18.12

It's a Stitch
6 FQ - juvenile brights and pink-red
14.61

Plain & Fancy
set of 1/2 yards
27.50 for 15 pc

Front Porch
1.75 red "toile" - end of bolt
4 FQ - 2 reds, green leaf, black
magazine

freebies:
Juliene's - FQ
PP - needle case kit
IS - patchwork heart
PF - big spool of thread
FP - birdhouse pattern

The funny thing is that I remember what several of these fabrics are. That teal and brown one, especially. And the red toile. I think there are still pieces of both of those floating around. And the 1/2 yards are on the back of the triple four-patch, I think.

Fabric-buying frenzy

I got the new Hancock's of Paducah catalog, and as usual, it was chock-full of gorgeous fabric, and I really fell in love with this one:



I don't really know why, because it doesn't really go with anything I've got planned for the immediate future, but I did. And they had four pages in the front of the catalog for this line, so they're really pushing it.

So I went to order it on the website and - can you see this coming? - it was out of stock. Now on the one hand this is aggravating. Why do they bother to print up this beautiful catalog and then not order enough of the fabric? It may have been something out of their control, like the fabric was late arriving from the manufacturer, I don't know. But still. Practically everything I looked at was out of stock. I ordered $80 worth of half-yards of fabric, and about three of them were in stock. Most of it said it would be back in stock sometime in September or October. I decided it would be fun to have all this fabric arriving in bits and pieces for the next several months. I still think it's a funny way to do business, but they've got me hooked just the same. You've just got to be in no hurry to actually make the quilt!


Note: I would give you the Hancock's link, but I think everything is still out of stock there, it's just too frustrating. I'm sure you will be able to find this fabric around, though. (Hmm. Moda's website says this line doesn't come out until September, anyway. That could explain it. But in that case HoP's website and catalog ought to have made that clearer.)

Ypsilanti quilt shop

Quilting Season is the name of the shop.

quilt shop & silo
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Fabric purchases

Here's the fabric I bought at the quilt store in Ypsilanti (which was cute - I might put up a picture). They had a lot of sale fabric for $4 a yard and you only had to buy half a yard - the three fabrics on the bottom row that are not batiks (so, the two paisleys and the dragonflies) were all sale fabrics. The batiks were also all on sale for 25% off, too.

That was a nice store, but it didn't have nearly as much fabric as the other one we went to, which was in Ann Arbor. I was feeling too broke to really indulge myself there, but I sure could have. I bought about a yard and a half of fabric, total, which is fairly restrained by my standards.

So since I was off work today, I washed all my fabric. I had a good bit of other fabric that needed washing - the last time I washed fabric I only ran one load and I had a bunch of indigoes that I didn't want to chance putting in with anything too light. I had enough today to run two pretty full loads, one light and one dark, and I have been folding fabric for a good while now.

fabric I bought
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.