Well, I succumbed to the allure of a bag of scraps this weekend, $4.99 for a huge bag. Hubby and I have a date to go bowling on Sunday mornings which is the only time period he usually has off. We went to our usual place and they were having some sort of event, so we went further down the road (quite a distance actually!) to another set of lanes we hadn't been to before. Bowling was good and then on the way back we took the scenic route and stopped at a Goodwill that I've never been to before, it was part of the hubby's secret plan to get me to those bowling lanes. It's funny how the different stores have different personalities, this was set up much more like a retail clothing store but I went to the linens section and found a bag of really happy bright pieces. I could tell they weren't anything special in terms of fabric, Joann and Walmart FQs mostly, but it was a nice usable collection well put together in terms of color and style. It varies a lot by piece, but some of the Waverly? Wamsutta?? from Walmart is actually rather nice quality of fabric while others are just not so good.
So now I'm doing penance in the form of prewashing and ironing. Ugh! For as much as I love my fabric, I hate the prewashing. Especially with smaller pieces, roughly FQ size I just throw in with the regular laundry, smaller I put into lingerie bags, but I still end up with a mess of tangled threads and then I have to iron all this stuff. But the pieces smaller than my 6.5" go into my box of scraps to be sent to my crumb quilter as do the trimmings from the used ends.
I need to get off the computer and get going on framing those 9-patches for the comfort quilt. I got a rather confusing email message from one of the ladies and wanted confirmation from our group hostess whether or not to continue as I had planned so sent her a picture of my one completed block. Got the answer back late that yes, I was doing what I was supposed to do.
I've been in this small group for about a year, knew one of the members and was in a different group with her for years but this is the first time I've done a group project with them. It's been nice watching the group dynamics as we figured out an idea and approach without a whole lot of time to think about things. Some times you have a natural leader, this group we are all leaders in our own ways. But we very respectfully had discussions and arrived on a consensus of opinions and a reasonable distribution of the work. I don't have a very good vision of what the final product will look like, but I know what I need to do today so while another load of fabric is clumping together in the washer, it's time to sew!