A friend and I went to a quilt shop that she discovered had nice black and whites... then we went to lunch... then to my favorite Mennonite shop. It was a delightful day! Karen bought me 2 yards from one store for a belated b-day gift; we've been planning on this trip for over a month.
Here's what I brought home:
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Close up of those birds--
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The on on the right here is more cream--but I loved it. It'll work great with my "splash" idea. :wink: The other ink looking one will need a quilt of it's own and the kid one was just too sweet to leave behind. It'll be fun to add squares of that one to a kid's splash project.
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Flannels... color is a bit off in the tree one...
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Just some neat trees blowing in the wind...not a flannel.
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Batiks! I don't have a plan for these just yet... but I didn't have these colors in my batik stash. I love the flowers as much as the colors.
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This beauty is a normal 40" in width, but I've admired this fabric for years... just never had a reason to buy it. Now I do. It's going to be the back for "A Walk Through the Park!" Perfect, eh? :wink:
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These are all some I already have--but they are used for lights on the Garden log cabin squares. (I'm making more) The far left one will be the narrow inner border for the Garden quilt; it's already in the squares. I didn't find another possibility for the outside border--but I haven't been to that BIG shop yet.
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And this is 110" wide and will be the back to the top I started yesterday. In the magazine it's called "Shadows on the Pond" but I'm calling mine "Kayaking on the Lake." :wink:
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This is the one I'm working on--a photo scanned from the magazine--McCall's Quilting August 2009...
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And of course, I'm not following their color ideas... I'm going to attempt making it greenish at one corner...work to blues... then back to greenish... like the lakes Mark and I kayak in. :D
Here are the darks I selected, but some didn't make the final cut, like green leaves.
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And here are the lights...
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Thanks for looking! :D