recent acquisitions - sunday stash

I've been in fabric acquisition mode lately. I blame Instagram and Paypal, primarily. People are like "buy this awesome fabric!" and I'm all like "ok, I will!" Paypal makes it so easy. Since I'm trying to get back into the blogging groove, I thought I'd share what's come in the mail recently.

I fell in love with Michael Miller's mirror ball dots at Quiltcon but didn't buy any. Then Jennifer posted this bundle for a bit of a deal on IG and I took the plunge cause she's a pal and I like supporting quilty friends. You can find this same bundle in her etsy shop.

I hate that the photo is blurry, but you get the idea. I nabbed these cuties in an IG destash. User @msjonah has an etsy shop which you can find here, and she's got one heck of a stash. It's more like a decent sized fabric store, since she seems to purchase a lot of things by the bolt. She's heading to quilt market in Portland and needed to make some room for new stuff.

She even offered up small scraps for free, so long as I paid the shipping. Score! These are all japanese import and/or kawaii fabrics, I'm not sure what that means but I know they're awesome. She sent my mushroom, hedgehog, and sheep fat quarters in a medium flat rate box, packed tightly the rest of the way with these awesome scraps. I love itty bitty patchwork so these will be perfect for that.

I also hit the $6 voile bandwagon pretty hard over the last several weeks, ordering a few different times from Sew Mama Sew before she suddenly decided to close up shop. What a bummer! I plan on doing some kind of fast, strip pieced quilt from the voile, with that top AMH "clippings" print for the backing. I figure the "pastry" stripes will make decent binding. I also bought enough of the bottom two prints to make myself a couple summer dresses.

Well, that's all for now!

Edit to add: sometimes I write fast and forget to spell check... in the original version of this post (and post title, ack!) I misspelled the word "acquisition" in a really obvious, goofy way. Whoops! Talk about embarrassing. I'm sure my English teacher sister was horrified :P

Also linking up for Sunday Stash with Kate at KateQuilts

measure once, cut twice

Only after I cut 78 5" charms from Moda muslin to go with my 78 5" charms of Japanese imports did I realize those imported charms actually measured out at 4 and 7/8" by 5 and 1/8". Insert expletives here.

So I spent a morning (almost two weeks ago, now) drinking coffee, chatting on the phone and trimming all 156 charms down to 4 and 7/8" squares. It really wasn't so bad, pretty calming actually. And those little strips look so cute I haven't thrown them away yet. Hoarder alert!

Anyone else ever dealt with defective precuts before? I'll remember to check them first from now on, lesson learned! My woodworking father has always said "measure twice, cut once." An old English proverb that applies just as much to quilting as it does to carpentry.

Since then I've spent some time mindlessly chain piecing, which feels pretty good. Sometimes you just need to DO without having to think too hard about it. But I suppose a little planning ahead of time can be a good thing, since now I think I'll have to rip a couple seams to get the color, value and print placement just right. 

Or perhaps I'll just go with it, finish it up, and love it the way it is. This is always the point in the process where I become paralyzed by decision making. Or lack thereof. Maybe I'll just switch gears again and work on something else? Ding ding ding! We have a winner :P