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*Big sigh* it’s been a tough week, it’s been very cold, the children have been on holiday from school and there have been builders working on the house.  By Friday I was pretty shattered but I had Saturday to look forward to and Emily, Susy and I were off to the Spring Quilt Festival.  We had a wonderful time, we bought fabric, we didn’t fight over any but did make promises to split some bargain pieces, we talked, we laughed, we critiqued the quilts on show and generally had fun.  We didn’t get kicked out of the show but we were there right until the end when we met up with Katy and went out for dinner, Jo joined us too she’d be out to the show in the morning.  It was a real treat to get out without the children and forget about the mess back at home – thanks ladies.

And just because no post seems complete without a photo, here is some lovely fabric that arrived here last week (sadly with a customs charge):

which made this seem a bit more bearable:

If I can summon up the energy I’ll have a couple of posts about finished quilts this week – hope you have a good week.

I’ve done a little bit of fabric buying over the last couple of months, nothing excessive (at least I didn’t think so until I got half way through this post) and only in the sales (sort of).

On Black Friday I preordered Architexture from Stash Modern Fabrics at a discounted price:

I’ve spent a fair amount of time in the last 12 months looking at architectural drawings and this appealed as soon as I saw it at the end of the summer.

And I filled the envelope with a yard of each of these, in a vague attempt to add to my small purple stash:

I won a $50 credit in the Scrappy Stash QAL at Ellison Lane Quilts to spend at Fabricworm, I didn’t spend it straight away and just before Christmas ordered a bright FQ bundle of Pearl Bracelets:

and a FQ bundle of Type by Julia Rothman, it didn’t include the clip board print but I’m not so keen on that so didn’t mind:

and filled up the envelope/spent the last dollars on a yard of sale fabric ready for next Christmas!

Next, a bundle of solids and a little bit of Flea Market Fancy from the Fat Quarter Shop in one of their 12 days of Christmas offers.  The solids were $3.50 per yard so it seemed silly not to add to my small solids collection:

Also from the FQS was a  half price FQ bundle of Super Star by Zoe Pearn for My Minds Eye, Riley Blake.  I don’t often buy fabric with a specific project in mind but this one is going to become a quilt for the Siblings Together project, I also bought extra half price yardage for backing and binding.  I’m thinking that this would be great for a teenage boy.  No idea about a pattern yet and still wondering if I can get 2 quilts out of it…

Then the evils of twitter…a friend tweeted one evening how she was waiting to collect a parcel from the local Post Office depot, she then posted a picture of what was in the parcel, I had to follow the link and discovered that Doughty’s were selling Michele D’Amores Wordplay for the small sum of £3.99 per metre!  So I soon discovered that I’d ordered a metre of most prints left:

The text fabrics are great but I’m also loving the dots/diamonds and think they’ll be wonderful for quilt binding.

A week later after following Doughty’s on twitter discovered that some prints that were previously out of stock were back in and again a metre of each arrived on my doorstep:

I have already used some of these, hoping to show you how soon.

Doughty’s offer a brilliant service and the postage was better than reasonable – highly recommended especially with the hike in shipping fees from the US.  They currently have a range of Amy Butler fabrics for £5.65 per metre, from the Midwest Modern, Daisy Chain and Love ranges and even a few pieces from the Belle and Lotus ranges.  Worth a look even if just for quilt backing.

So the lesson I have learnt today is keep quiet about fabric purchases or write about them as they arrive so that I don’t write a post which makes me look like I have an addiction!

I’ve been remiss in keeping you up to date with additions to my fabric stash. Just before Christmas I had an email from Valori Wells telling me that my name had been picked as a commenter on her blog to receive a fat quarter bundle of Cocoon or Novella, a tough choice but one I had to make.  I went for Novella as I especially love the zig zag prints and the colours are superb.

So this turned up in the mail sometime in January:

This teal print is one of my favourites, the colour is delicious:

There is even a brown in there too which looks stunning:

Then just after Christmas I won a giveaway over at Patchwork Delights, sponsored by Fililis a new online fabric shop based in Ireland, run by Patricia and her mum.  They very kindly sent me a FQ bundle of Cuzco by Kate Spain.  It is simply delicious, not fabric I would normally be drawn to but now I have it in my hands I’m finding it is quite delightful!

And as you might guess I have no idea what I might use either of these bundles for, but for now I’m quite happy just looking at them!

Thanks very much Valori and Fililis for these gorgeous additions to my stash.