Fabric

Having a munchie craving? May I suggest these fabulous no-calorie, fat-free Kona chips? Colorful and delectably scrumptious. And high in fiber!

There is quite a bit of prep work involved but we can just look at it as a way to brush up on your knife, err, Olfa skills.

Om nom nom. (And yes I really cut up my color card. Allie at RK said I could! It makes picking colors for a quilt *so* much easier.)

Don’t forget the birthday sale! Ends Wednesday night.

Q: What happens if I’m running low on scraps?  I’ve been on a scrap quilt kick and the buckets are almost empty!

A: Make more quilts! The scraps will follow.  Promise.

Scary thing is that there is no backing in those stacks.  And there are four quilts missing from the stacks.  Yikes.  Am I allowed to be freaking out about the amount of work to do before Market?

And no, I’m not actually running low on scraps.  After weeks of sewing them it looks like I didn’t use a single piece out of those buckets.

I’ve been working on cleaning up and organizing my workroom after a couple crazy months. One of yesterday’s projects was scrap management (snort, that sounds hilarious, but with the amount I sew, it’s a really big issue).  I try to not waste fabric but no matter how hard you try, scraps are just a part of sewing.

Top row (l to r): pink, red, orange, yellow
Middle row: green, brown/black/grey, purple, to random to actual sort plus silk and flannel
Bottom row: white, blue, selvedges

The small buckets are 30qt (16.8″ x 13.3″ x 11.3″) and the large buckets are 71 qt (23.3″ x 18.7″ x 12.3″).

Not pictured: the random 1/4-1 yard cuts that have no real use anymore… you know when all the other fabrics from that collection are gone and you still have a large cut of one print left?

It totals 119.8 pounds (102.3 in buckets, 17.5 in random cuts) .

One yard of quilting cotton is about 4.5 ounces.

My calculator tells me that if I put all these scraps edge to edge that would total 425.95 yards.  I hope I did the math wrong on that. I really, really hope I did the math wrong.

I wonder what I can make with all that.  Hmmm…

(and this doesn’t include my guesstimate of over *400* pounds on my fabric shelves… I hope Sean doesn’t read this…)

Japanese prints.  Eek.  So incredibly loveable.  I’ve been resisting the urge to splurge on them for almost a year… I have clearly failed now.

And a major blast from the past collection of Heather Ross prints.  I had to have them.  Yes, really, I had to.

Today Liam and I ventured to the wild, wild world of Winston-Salem, NC.

I  thought my 48.3 mpg on the way there was a fluke until I got 49.1 mpg on the way home.

Liam chilled in the back with a Wall-E book that he read over and over for 100 miles.  Not a peep came out of him … except for the random “WAAAAAALLLLEEEEEE!!!!!!” (And now he’s sitting in my lap reading the same book.)

So why Winston-Salem?  Doesn’t everyone go there on Tuesdays?

Nah, we had to visit Karen Gray Design’s new store.  I needed some new and different stuff for some upcoming projects and what she had was perfect.

Liam decided to start designing his own quilt with Pop Garden.

Great combo Liam!

I love her chandeliers.  I wonder if I could fit one over the kitchen table?

And I got some fabric while I was there too.

Whoops.

So that was our day.  If you’re in Raleigh, it’s a totally easy trip.  So go!  Have fun!  Drool at the chandeliers!