Girlfriends

girlfriends
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I tend to pick and choose from different fabric lines, partly because I don't like my quilts to match too much, and partly just because it's the way I am. I'm picky about pattern and color, and I was that way long before I was a quilter. (Although by "picky" I don't mean picky about quality, exactly. If I pick one of your fabrics and not another one, I don't mean to imply that there's anything wrong with the ones I don't pick! It's just that certain things appeal to me in a way that others don't. I really don't know a better way to explain it than that.)

Anyway, this piece from the "Girlfriends" line by Free Spirit appealed to me a lot, even though a lot of the line is big multicolored florals, which is something I don't buy much of. In the case of florals, though, it's not so much that they don't appeal to me as that I just don't know what to do with them. On the other hand, scrollwork patterns do tend to appeal to me, so much that I don't always worry about whether I know what to do with them or not. (But still not all of them, and it's hard to predict which ones I'm going to like. See? Picky.)

(There's also more pictures & commentary on the Girlfriends line here.)