Sunday Stash #13

My one and only Jelly Roll. I just couldn't leave the shop without it. Can't afford it, but it was the only one there and who knows when I'd find another one. Japanese Indigo fabrics really are a passion of mine. If I'd purchased the minimum cut of all 30 of these fabrics it would have cost me close to $150! No, I'm not kidding. Also, I've actually never seen a total of 30 Indigo fabrics together. The other three are 30cm cuts that I bought at the Sydney Quilt & Craft show earlier in the year. They cost me between $6 & $7 each, which I thought wasn't bad. It'll probably take me a week or so to unroll it, and a significant amount of weeks to decide what to make with it. It has to be special, and it has to be for me!

Cheerio for now,
X Mandy

Sunday Stash #8

Michelle D'Amore - Bleeker Street

Wondering if I can use them in the Doll Quilt Swap #7

Hope so

Cheerio for now
X Mandy

Sunday Stash #6

I love this piece of fabric, can you spot the squirrel? It feels very Medieval England to me, I just had to have it when I saw it. The fabric is a very heavy linen, to die for texture. When I can bear to cut it, I'll make a wall hanging with it.

No sewing today, I've just enjoyed tidying up my sewing area, it's getting there, but I'll finish it tomorrow. A very pleasant afternoon/evening fussing with fabric, warmed by the first fire of Winter blazing away. I think perhaps the Tia Maria and milk helped mellow the mood too! Oh and DM put on a lovely cd collection. Barry White, Commodores, Wet Wet Wet, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Beautiful South, Gladys Knight, INXS, Peter Frampton, Extreme, plus plus plus. I'll be sleeping well tonight.

cheerio for now
X Mandy

Sunday Stash #4

So......this is part of my Kaffe Fassett fabric collection. Yup, there's more. But not quite as much as my Amy Butler collection! Mmmm, you see why this year HAS to be a year full of finishes.





I blame and LOVE my Mum for my collecting habit. Mum loved collecting Blue & White china, she loved it even more if she got it from a Car Boot Sale. Therefore our Kitchen was FULL of fantastic china. My Dad put shelves on every available kitchen wall to house jugs and teapots. They were mainly blue & white, but also Mason greens, Clarice Cliff oranges, and a lot of Torquay ware (of which I have a small collection of, as they hail from my birth part of the world). It was Mum's passion, it still is, and I Thank You Mum, for giving me the gift of appreciating colour and form and texture, and for passing on to me, the collecting bug.

Sunday Stash #2

Saffron Craig fabrics

I receive newsletter emails from Saffron Craig, and the latest one was about selling the stock she had, to make way for new lines she would be receiving soon. I've always really liked her style, so with 30% off and free post, what was a girl to do!

Sunday Stash #1

Having trouble resisting red
oh, and look
is that a little bit of aqua I spy!