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Monday, March 30, 2015

Other People's Fabric - Sheila's Stash

Scrappy quilts are just the best!  To get all those fabrics takes time.  It takes time to build your own stash, but if you have friends, you can get other people's fabric.  Sometimes we have formal exchanges of fat quarters or fat eighths.  Sometimes, it's specific blocks or strips or squares. Sometimes, it's a gift from someone. Whichever it is -- it's fun to play with other people's fabric mixed with your own!

Last week, I received this box.


Inside was this.......

Oh, my! A Longaberger Basket!


A BIG basket full of.......


Make that jam packed full of........


Yep, fabric!


And other stuff, too!


Lots of fabric and stuff!


A tear might have fallen!


Sheila's greens, red and purples!


Patriotic prints and patterns.


Neutrals, golds and yummy blues!

It was Sheila's stash and all she asked was.....


that I quilt and bind this small quilt she made.

She's decided to give up quilting.  She's discovered

Skydiving and Zip lining!

I guess those are sort of exciting, but I'd rather play with other people's fabric adding it to my own rather large stash!

Thank you Sheila!


Do you love other people's fabric as much as I do?  It's the variety and they choose differently than I do which adds to the spice in a quilt.

Until next time,

xoxoXOXOxoxo

Lois






















1 comment:

Botanic Bleu said...

Lois,
What a wonderful friend to send you her treasure trove of fabrics in a basket.

Right now I am in the midst of cleaning and de-cluttering and some of my old fabric pieces will go to new homes.

Happy Easter, my friend. I can only imagine how busy you must be with all the little ones getting ready for Sunday.

Judith