Monday, February 27, 2012

LQS= Lots of Help for Confused Me....!

First of all, someone asked me if my food fabrics came from a series called Farmer's Market.  I had no idea who was responsible. So I looked at my selvages.  I was using FQs and of the 12 I used, only 7 had the printing on them.  Here they are....


Sure enough, 2 of them came from Farmer's Market...notice the dates on some...I told you I had them for quite a while...

I have picked the backing for the table runner and have cut it and the batting..I will be pinning it either later on tonight or in the morning...then I "think" maybe I'll try some MQing using the Walking Foot, following the seams...

(Added on before posting: Am having second thoughts about the backing..4 washings and it is still bleeding onto the Color Catchers...May go back to the Stacks and look for another backing...)

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Had a big day at the LQS.  They helped me so much! I had e-mailed them asking for help in choosing fabric for BILs quilt. Of course they were willing to show me all sorts of fabric.....and even acted like I was part of the choosing team also...

We looked here and there and at this group and that group....wandered all over the store...I had the help of the owner and a young lady who was color/pattern wise beyond her years...for at least 1 1/2 hours..

I really bought more than I thought I needed, but that is par for the course.  I wanted some "oops" inches with each choice, and I got them....




One of the borders may be scrappy and I plan to use these also.  It will be a king sized quilt and you will be hearing a lot about it in the days, weeks, months, (years?) to come.....watch the side panel for picture updates..there might be a lot before I am finished....

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Just a quicky request...I have been using comment verification for awhile and don't need or want ya'll to be subjected to the new word verification.  I don't think you are, but if someone would let me know for sure about this, I sure would appreciate it....

See Ya Later!

6 comments:

Vroomans' Quilts said...

I love your fabric shopping!! Oh, I would add those to my stash, just gorgeous. I haven't been bothered by the word verification - they took away that funny 'fuzzy section' that covered one word, so you can see them better.

Sunnybec said...

Okay..checking word verification for you right now...

Sunnybec said...

No verification at all. Hugs x

Stray Stitches (Linda G) said...

So many gorgeous fabrics. I would love to add them all to my stash.

Deb said...

Do you save your selvages to sew into something? I had never heard of saving selvages until a couple or so years ago. Now I save them all with maybe an inch of the fabric attached so when I sew it will include some fabric and the selvage. Think of all those valuable selvages that I've been throwing away over the years. Here's a link the the Selvage Blog showing a quilt being made from leftover selvages:
http://selvageblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-make-red-zinger.html

StitchinByTheLake said...

When they first changed word verification it was awful...I couldn't read it at all. They've made it a little better now. I don't use it and don't have a problem with spam but I don't allow anonymous comments either so that might make a difference. blessings, marlene