On the Bright Side

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

Like most (all?) quilters, I have a fabric stash.  It is large.  (How large?  I can't say.)  And  I have been pretty good about using it during the last year.  I went to the chain store for thread and basting spray, but I pulled fabrics from my stash for all my quilts.

That's about to change.

I am so grateful to be fully vaccinated.  It means I can go back to the quilt store!  And since I hadn't been there in a whole year, it felt okay to spend more than usual.  This is my loot:  10 yards of fabric (!) and a bag of scraps from their bin.  

Did you notice?  All the fabrics are brights or bright on white, except for one Civil War print.  I keep thinking I'll stop buying the Civil War stuff, but I just can't quit it.

Here's the stuff in the scrap bag.  Why are other people's scraps are so intriguing?

While looking through my stash before I went to the quilt store, I came across this cute print.  I don't know if the little creatures are monsters or aliens, but they are really cheerful.  I put this simple top together this week so I could finally use them.

For the border, I used one of the new fabrics from the quilt shop.

Here's the little top, 36 in. x 42 in.  All the pieces are cut from 3.5 in. strips.  Quilting this baby quilt will go on my weekend to-do list.  It will be donated to Little Lambs, as part of Hands2Help 2021.

So what about the Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks for the week?  Bright colors again, in these Happy Blocks.  The centers are light or bright blue novelty prints, and the frames are colors that contrast, in calmer prints. 

Does this remind you of yellow month?  The frame color tends to dominate the block.
 

These centers just looked better with darker blue strips.  The darkest colored fabric came from the scrap bag I bought at the quilt store.

The green batik around the duckie block is also from the quilt store scrap bag.

Red was really the only color that went with these blue squares.  But I didn't have very many choices of non-novelty red prints, as you can see.  Guess that means another trip to the store!

Last Sunday, my husband and I went antiquing for the first time since the pandemic.  We still wore masks, and we ate in the car, so not the same as before, but we had so much fun anyway.

Look what I bought!  This is the pile after I washed, dried, and folded it.  All of these fabrics are 100% cotton, and most are several yards long.  There are 3 yards of the John Deere fabric.  In all, I got 27 yards of fabric for an average of $2 per yard (!). These will make some nice borders and backs and other pieces for charity quilts. 

Baby Buddy and I were able to go to the park yesterday morning while Little Buddy was at preschool.  He's pointing at some Canadian geese.  The weather has been weird as always this week.  On Wednesday, snow poured out of the sky off and on.  Luckily it didn't stick.

Little Buddy hasn't wanted his picture taken much.  He was okay with me taking this shot of him playing with his dinosaur.  I'm not sure what he's feeding it, just hope it isn't Daniel Tiger.  I know it's pretend, but it just seems wrong.

I hope things are bright in your world this week.

Thanks for reading!

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

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