Sunday Stash

I can't decide whether I want to join a link-up for this or not, but I do want to share some of what I'm gathering and hoarding. Thinking on projects like the Glitter quilt prompted me to pick up some scrap packs - one warm and one cool fat eighth pack each from Westwood Acres, and a "fresh" scrap pack from Hawthorne Threads. (I also picked up a quarter-yard of Liberty fabric in the Westwood Acres order. I think for machine practice I may try to sew my way through the Love at First Stitch book from Tilly Walnes, so the Liberty is for the book's first project, the Brigitte scarf.)

I got a good assortment - including lots of blenders, and lots of cuts of Cotton and Steel fabrics, which I often admire from afar without quite knowing what I would do with them if I got the full half-yard that most online shops require as a minimum purchase. For instance, these Melody Miller roses, which I'm intrigued by, but otherwise wouldn't have thought to get.

The biggest surprise from all of the scrap packs? These Lizzy House cats, which are knit rather than quilting cotton. I suppose it shouldn't be that surprising, coming from a shop that sells a range of substrates. It's a bit perplexing, though. What does a quilter do with an errant eight inches of knit fabric? I guess we'll see!

I also added some Aurifil to my collection in my Hawthorne Threads order. The aqua is #5006, which coordinates well with two different collections I've built - Bonnie and Camille, and Riley Blake basics. I got a small spool of 50-wt #5006 in one of the Fat Quarter Shop Aurifil Club packs this spring. Once I saw that it worked well with those existing collections, I decided to get a bigger spool of the 50-wt so I can use it to fill a bobbin for machine-piecing a backing that uses big cuts of a Riley Blake aqua basic. I got the 28-wt for an idea I have percolating for quilting some existing projects in different colors. The big 28-wt spool is #2021, their classic creamy white, which I'm using generally for quilting projects. I got the 40-wt in #1135 for thread basting (more about that on Thursday.)