I've had a grocery bag full of black and white scraps sitting on my bedroom floor for awhile. God bless my handsome husband for not cursing my overflowing fabric bin!
I had an idea to make black evergreen trees on a white background in a repeating pattern.
Then I made this tree quilt for a wedding gift and now I'm hooked. So I cut out some leaves and even found some solid black fabric for the tree trunk. I pulled out a soft gray fabric for the background....and saw faded spots! No!!!!!!!! I washed it in hopes it was just from storage, but alas, the fade spots stayed.
Not happy.
There goes my idea to make a quilt with only materials I have on hand.
So while I mourned the death of that idea (for now) I moved on to making a quilt for Whirlwind. She's been quickly outgrowing all the baby blankets that were lovingly gifted to us when she was born. I "accidently" bought too much fabric for baby #2's quilt, so I've decided Whirlwind needs one too, but big enough for a toddler bed. I saw an excellent pattern in a quilt magazine that Santa put in my stocking.
Wish me luck that I can actually finish this one!
I love the colors you picked! Can't wait to see the final product.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the black & gray fabric project, it's not dead....just fermenting, evolving and germinating...can't wait to see what it becomes!
ReplyDeleteI love the colors too! They are even better when they are all put together. I can't wait to finish it.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're right, it is fermenting...long enough for me to get a coupon to JoAnn's and go buy some gray fabric! =)