Yay, lovely new fabric! I picked up the plain gray at Walmart, because it was $1.50 a yard. Geez, I should have bought the whole bolt, right? I did go back and buy an additional yard, so happy there was still some left. I realized I’d need more, if I wanted to end with a border. I had been on the lookout for plain gray, because I’d seen finished gray and yellow quilts, and thought they were so pretty. But then somewhere along the way I decided I had a friend who needed a quilt, and it should be gray/red/black/white — and boy am I glad I didn’t go through with that because it would have been awful busy. And then I read a blog who was giving away a stack of fat quarters in sky blue/gray variations (I didn’t win the give-away) and I thought, “WOW, that looks terrific!” So on my next trip to the big city, I stopped at Craft World and checked out the flat-fold table (sale — $3.99 a yard!) to see what could be done. There were actually two flat-fold tables, and almost no gray available and almost no robin’s egg blue. I got the best of what there was, and then had to go check the sale bin of fat quarters. I was really looking for Tiffany’s blue, not robin’s egg, and I think I ended up real close to somewhere between the two. Details, details, I know.
What was really depressing was how much 30s repro was available on the table, now that I don’t need it. I have half a mind to go back and just buy it up for the future, though. It’s not going to be “current” forever, after all, and I’m sure it’s (1930s quilts) a place I’ll want to re-visit. Today we’re snowed in, though, so it won’t be happening for a while. On the plus side, I bet a lot of other customers are snowed in, too, so it won’t sell out quickly.
Love the fabric and love getting deals on fabric!
Sorry that you are snowed in, that can be lovely or horrible depending on if you like or hate snow! Thankfully we never get more than a soft 1/2-1/4″ here and it’s usually gone by noon….. thank goodness!
Have a great day.