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Fabric Play

Hello!  I am SO HAPPY to be back at my desk this morning typing away to you for my daily post.  It's a gorgeous day in South Carolina.  I. love. home.

We're restarting our homeschool, doing laundry and just generally adapting to the regular flow, so I decided to give myself a fun assignment - fabric playtime!  Remember this picture?

turquoise, coral, tangerine and curry

Still running high on inspiration (I can practically taste this color scheme!), I joyfully put together a collection of fabrics from my stash:

Fabric Playtime

At first the oranges I pulled from my stash were too true orange. I wanted a softer, creamier orange.  The solid shown at left is Kona Papaya, which is exactly right. I think the teal-ish color on the Disney ride had slightly more of a blue tone, but I like this collection of teals, which are related to Kona Candy Green, according to my Kona color card.  And then I finished with flashes of coral.

Do you love it?  I LOVE it!  Like, it's living on my table so that I can look at it all day.  Is this what fabric playtime is supposed to feel like?  I definitely want to do this more often!

loving the vintage feel

That Orange Bouquet print from Flea Market Fancy is the same I featured in my Modern Medallion quilt.  It's prettiness always charms me.  I tried to choose other prints with a somewhat vintage flair as well, to match the tone of Orange Bouquet.  The coral Dotted Leaf print is from Chicopee and you can see a white and orange Madrona Road print there in the bottom left corner. 

les Amis in teal

I just got this new print, Les Amis in Teal, from Pink Chalk Fabrics.  The scale and style are so lovely (also comes in coral, chocolate and olive).  It sits beside a hard-to-find Cosmo Cricket crosshatch and below another Flea Market Fancy print, Posie in Turquoise, which happens to carry the whole color scheme.  Find!

add some low volume.  Need to make quilt!

The trouble is I don't think I can play fabrics without desperately wanting to sew them pronto. See, just add some low volume prints and wouldn't it make a shining, happy little big quilt?  Sigh.

True confession: By now I already have a pattern in mind.

But... so many other things to finish first.  Hmm.