We Are On It
Dennis has been on target today. Yesterday I threw out a thought or two for a storage idea for my stash of fabrics. Today he made a trip to the Fleet and Farm store. There will be one more step to complete tomorrow. Time will tell.
After a very busy day yesterday, I took time to sit in the west house porch and do a bit of traffic watching. The back can buck . . . so why not play to it until it feels like cooperating.
The internet is a wealth of knowledge when I seem to be short of it. Some of the fabric I was given yesterday was a poly/cotton. I needed more information going forward to make use of it. It is durable, can be somewhat more so than 100% cotton. Poly/cotton does not shrink . . . also good to know. In quilting with it, do not mix with any other type of fabric or blend of fabric. Also good to know. I am not a fabric snob in thinking that only one designer or widely known designers and their collections of fabrics need to be purchased and thus used. Paying $10.98 and up to 12.98 per yard need not be the norm.
I come from a time when the back of shirts and blouses were saved as options for use in quilting. Printed chicken feed sacks were used. What amazes me is that quilts using fabrics such as these had stood the test of times. I have quilts that my grandmother and mother made using fabric that was purchased in a Ben Franklin store. They have been used and abused and made it through laundering only getting softer each time.
My mom, Lena, had a favorite quilt pattern, Trip Around the World. I dug out my pattern of it today . . . as I can’t stay out of the studio for an entire day. My wheels are spinning. I can envision a sweet quilt top coming forth and I have just the sewing machine to quilt them.
If I manage a quilt or two from this newly acquired stash, I know I will find homes for them. In the mean time, I will be keeping an ear out if there is someone to share this fabric with. The more stitches, the merrier.