It's Mine! All Mine!
The fabrics are Kaffe Fassett Shot Cottons, both stripes and solids. I fell in love with them the first time I saw them.
The quilt is X-Effect from his book "Shots and Stripes". I have enough fabric left over I'll be making another one!
The thing about his shot cottons ... Magic Sizing becomes your best friend. It is so light that I felt I needed a bit of stabilizer on it. Plus I was working with all those bias edges ... but a spritz of Magic Sizing and everything stayed in place.
I used a wool batting in this one just because I wanted to see first hand how wool behaves, both during quilting and during wear. It was dreamy! The quilt is light in weight but I'm betting it's going to be super cozy.
Love Love Love this quilt!!
First trip there last year and I was so overwhelmed I had to leave the building. I'm not claustraphobic but there was just too too much fabric to deal with. This year I had a list which is the way to go. I needed backings and I got backings. And this shop has just about every fabric you have seen in the last 5 or 8 years. Seriously ...
So ...
Here's some pics of quilts that have gone home recently.
I quilted a star and curls on this.
This has such a sweet story. Cathy and husband have 'adopted' a school and in talking with the principal it came about that the school will be using a book about quilting in their reading program. So Cathy and husband are donating this quilt - which follows the book - to the school at Christmas. I love this quilt!
