Quilting Side Effects

Earlier this month I traveled to Another City (By the Water) and visited my sister and brother for a short 3 days. 

I very seldom buy clothes, a mall shopping trip was soon arranged. To make a long story shorter, let's just say my DSIL & DS teamed up and threw clothes at me in the changing room...I didn't know what hit me, but it was so much fun!  I didn't even want to know how much it was and my sister hid the amount while I electronically signed and guarded the receipt until I arrived home after the trip and e-mailed her permission to tell me (I had to check my credit card amount)...Fun! Fun! Fun!

So, what does this have to do with with Quilting????  In the past I have been very conservative in my color choices regarding clothes.  That all changed on this trip.  I started looking at them like I would while making a quilt or other colorful item.

I didn't realize how much my color sense has changed since I started quilting...

Look at these items I made earlier in my quilting life.....

Now look at this.....

and the previous post....

as a matter of fact..you can see a progression of sorts on my slide show at the top side of my blog...the picture above of the cross stitched ham radio quilt was my first one, the others follow it kinda sorta in a chronological order....

I really have gotten better at deciding what goes with what and whether it would look good.  Now I am starting to broaden that idea in clothes.  Wonder what else is in my future????

Hummm........more bills???

Oh.....and what did I buy, you say?  Here is a picture of some I did choose myself, before the avalanche of clothes started. (and all in a size smaller than before!)