Originally Posted by Honchey
What type of fabric will you be using for this next journey?
I picked up some of the novelty fabric that Laurie listed on her Yahoo site (cowboy, horses, farm animals, bandanas - stuff like that while on vacation this year. I just got fat quarters and plan to use fabric I have on hand (hopefully).
For those who missed what she wrote, here is the Yahoo information she gave earlier:
Hi Cynthia,
Thanks for the question. I had thought someone would like advanced notice about the fabrics. I have to be gone most of this weekend, so I will give you a little information now, and get back to you tonight or tomorrow. I used mostly primary (darker) fabrics, with no pink at all. I tried to use stark white sparingly, and there is no common color theme throughout the quilt. (As you know, The Farmer's Wife didn't have one either.) You will need many SMALL scale novelty fabrics. I found horses/ponies, barbed wire, cowboy hats, lasso rope, saddles, little boys and girls with horses, horseshoes, bandana, etc. (Absolutely adorable, too!) There is also room for lots of plainer fabrics from your stash to go with these novelty fabrics.
I also used a dozen or two rather strange fabrics (at least strange until you read the letters) such as Christmas fabric and train fabric. I'll get back to you later about these. Thanks for the good question!
God bless you,
Laurie Aaron