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My stash is sorely lacking in some colors of blenders. I really need to work on that. I think it's accidentally happened that I've acquired some yellows lately.

First, this lovely chevron... When I was ordering the Charley Harper fabric from Fabricworm I was fifty cents away from being able to use a $5 off coupon, so I added this lovely $5 half yard of Riley Blake Small Yellow Chevron and used my coupon to get it for free!

yellow chevron

 

I took advantage of a Craftsy sale on fabric to buy 4 yards of black (since I felt like I would have used it with the birthday outfits if I'd had it... and it could totally come in handy for a quilt project). I also grabbed a yard of the Andover Dimples in Yellow.  Here's the super close-up! You'll just have to imagine what my solid black fabric looks like. :-)Andover Yellow Dimples

 

This next one is actually a canvas fabric intended for pillow covers on my red couch, Trident in Daffodil. trident in daffodil

 

When I posted my first Sunday Stash post I linked up to Sewing by Moonlight. Em had a giveaway and I WON! Thank you so much, Em, the fabrics are beautiful! I have an idea in mind for them.

prize fabric from Em

Still on my blender wish list: more yellows, greens, teals, oranges.

 

I'm linking up with Quilts from the Attic, hosting the Sunday Stash for Molli Sparkles this week.

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A couple of oldies this week. I got these about a year ago. I just loved the Pirate Matey's line by Riley Blake when I saw it. These are the first precuts I've purchased. I also purchased some yardage from the line for backing fabric (not pictured). I intend to turn them into a quilt for our family room, which is decorated in blue, tan and brown. I thought purchasing precuts would mean I'd get a quilt top put together quickly, but I haven't been able to make a decision about exactly HOW I want to put them together. Hm. Any fast ideas given that I have 10" squares, 5" squares and a jelly roll?

pirate fabric by Riley Blakedetail 5-inch charm pack pirate matey's

The mission to make a king size bed quilt for our room started during the Shop Hop by The Bay in 2013. I came home with a few selections of fabric that were primarily purple. I don't even remember what they all looked like, but one had butterflies with gold accents. When I showed them to my husband he wasn't sold on any of them and asked, "Isn't there purple ninja fabric?" Well, a quick internet search for "purple ninja fabric" landed me on Spoonflower looking at this super purple ninja warriors! print. I immediately ordered a swatch, but it was too pink for the tones of purple that were in our room. The beauty of Spoonflower is that I was able to contact the creator who was happy to adjust the colors in her print to my purples. I snail mailed off my paint swatches from out bedroom and she turned them into this version of super purple ninja warriors!

purple ninja fabricI love it! And I quickly found a Kona solid purple to coordinate with it.

ninja and solid purpleThat started the somewhat long hunt for the perfect coordinating blender fabric to go with these. I've shopped some of my local quilt shops as well as ordered online (though that's really much more of a gamble on what tone of purple I'm getting).  Here's my ever growing collection of possibilities. At least purple is a color I love AND an underrepresented color in my stash.

ninjas with coordinating purplesMy plan is to make a Puzzle Box quilt featuring the purple ninjas.

I'm linking up to Sunday Stash with Molli Sparkles.

 

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I am exhausted from a lovely day celebrating The Girl's 2nd birthday. (Pics coming soon.)

There's a little new fabric in my life... The Girl and I went to the SCVQA meeting on Monday morning. She hung in there for the first half of the meeting, but after running around at break she was pretty done sitting still. I didn't get a chance to hear the featured speaker, Cara Gulati, but I admired her beautiful work on display and got to snag a few of her lovely fat quarters for A DOLLAR each. Bright colors. Geometric. It was like they had my name on them.

IMG_6572No idea what I'm going to do with them, but looking at them makes me happy.

Oh, I did just remember what my next project is though... I'm cutting into that Charley Harper fabric I showed you last week. I'm also running my first 5K on Saturday.

I'm linking up with Quirky Hannah for Sunday Stash.

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