There is NOTHING better than wonderful fabric!

…OK, maybe there are things that are better and more important and….BUT… (I really have no words to explain myself)

I feel like I’m strangling because I don’t have time to sit down and make anything.

• My Christmas stocking class is tomorrow and although I’m fairly prepared for the class, my house is a mess and I need to prepare a meal for it.
• I’m preparing a meal for a small-group study @ church tonight.
• My calendar is full until after Thanksgiving with guests who are coming (a lot of them hunters) and all of this (and more) makes me feel a little stressed out.  If I could just find a few hours to sew it would all be better ~ it kind of becomes a stress-reliever (and, yes, as with other stress-relievers, it is quite addicting).

Yesterday I placed my first-ever online fabric order…I went to quilthome.com.  Boy, that was a tough one for me because I have to see, touch, smell…(you get the picture…it’s an experience!) my fabrics before buying them, but, I had two reasons for doing it. 1) I fell in love with Anna Maria Horner’s fabrics months ago on-line, in fact her blog quickly became a fav, but I hadn’t ever seen or experienced them in person.  It’s part of my new life of ‘living remote’ and along with this ‘new life’ I need to do less shopping, in general, and with the ‘less’, do more of that on-line.  Also, I can’t go into an average fabric store these days and find the kinds of fabrics that have become my favorites. 2) the other reason I wanted to place this order is because I realized that quilthome.com not only carries all of these most wonderful fabrics, from the newest, cutting-edge designers, but they also happen to be {practically} in my back yard (when I walked in the gal there said, because of my address, “do you know DB?”, I said, “yes, he’s my dad!”).    I love my life!! :O)  So, I went in to pick up my fabric and I was able to EXPERIENCE some of the other wonderful fabrics.  I’m telling you gals, this is the place to go ~ and the wonderful thing is, it doesn’t matter where you live.

I also went to my favorite 2nd hand shop.  Because I have finally been working with my idea of blending old and new to make aprons, it gave me permission to buy more old.  I also picked up a few linen napkins because I have been wanting to sew in a little side towel into the apron and thought that these might work nicely.

The 4 dresden plate vintage quilt blocks that I got (for $4), are making me crazy. I love beautiful vintage cottons even more than I love these new contemporary fabrics.

Did I say that I have house work to do?   …better get to it!