So here's the pile of 7 polka dot fabrics. The one on the far left is the one I love the most. Don't ask ... it is compulsive behavior, but then again, you knew that, right?
Notice how nice and neat these fabrics are? I'm so proud ... I finally organized all my fabrics 2 Christmas's ago. I took each piece of yardage, measured it, made a little tag, wrapped the yardage around a Comic Book Board (8.5" x 11"), and pinned tag onto the fabric - see that orange thingy on the left. That's the tag. Anyway, I can pull a piece of fabric and tell if I have enough for whatever project I'm working on. I tag leftover batting pieces in the same way (don't wrap them around board, just tag) and this has saved me huge amounts of time trying to figure out if a piece of batting will work on my small projects. Can you hear me patting myself on the back?
And here's the quilt I used that fabulous fabric for borders ... friend Tina has been telling me about this "Easy Peasy" quilt pattern called "5 One-Yard Cuts" pattern for at least 4 years. Whenever she is in town we go fabric store visiting and I'm always finding myself buying 5 1-yard cuts of fabrics (like I couldn't just go to my stash and find it!) and swearing to her that I will do one of these quilts. So now I have about 4 different "kits" lined up. I pulled this one out last week and started on it after finishing a customer quilt. And honestly, it's as easy as my old standby Yellow Brick Road. Done and done, except for the quilting - which may take a while to get to. At least the top is now done.
