*TYPO*... Ooops.. I need to clarify something.

I did NOT purchase from Fabric.com! I purchased from Wishuponaquilt.com! Geezz..talk about handing out misinformation! I went to ck my receipt for Jenn and realized I was wrong! DUH! Better give credit where it's due!

Jenn
Here's a link to the crane fabric I purchased. This photo link does NOT do this fabric justice, but since I KNEW this was the fabric I had been hunting for I knew what it looked like when opened up. If you'd like I can take a digital of the fabric unfolded and THEN you can see it much better.

Kona Bay Crane Fabric

This place has quite a bit of nice Asian fabric. I have a dear friend who loves Asian things. These colors ARE the colors in her living room (even matching her incredible crane rug). WHEN...I get around to making her a quilt I now have her fabrics purchased and waiting in line.

oh wow that is beautiful fabric! Bugfabric.com has my asian fabric that I'm using in the BOM and it doesn't do it justice either in a photograph. I built the whole quilt around that just because I saw it and said "it must be mine!" lol I had planned to go a completely different route with the quilt till I saw that!

Jenn,

Here's the crane fabric opened up. I can't tell you how THRILLED I am to have found this! I also laid it out with some of the fabrics I'm going to use in the quilt. IF IF IF I used that mottled grape fabric it will be veeeeeery sparingly!




The pattern I'm using is Thimbleberries "Street Scene".

I wanted to display as much of the crane fabric as possible. If I can afford it...I'd love to have it machine quilted too. So far...my gift quilts have been HAND TIED...lol, but I can sure see this machine quilted in a lotus flower or...even a long bamboo look.

The for SURE fabric choices (so far ) are the cranes in the middle area. The green bamboo/leafy with gold thread fabric will be where the red holly border is on this pattern photo. The 4 smaller rectangular areas out in the border will be the Asian floral fabric next to the grape.

That's what I know for sure...the rest is still in the decision making process.

WOW!! I absolutely Lust after that crane fabric!! it is gorgeous! that quil t is gonna be something!!

Thanks! I'm reaaaaaaaaaally fighting the urge to start it because I have a couple projects ahead of it. I refuse to have 3 quilts going at once... I think that would make me nuts...lol

Your fabric is sooooo beautiful, Felicia! It does make you want to take it out and pet it doesn't it? This is a "hard to cut it" fabric for sure ... and a good pattern choice for such.

You seem to have found your way around the LQS and online fabric world and pattern selection pretty well there, girlfriend, ... and you have a wonderful eye for color!

I should be asking you for advice. Pat

Oh boy.. Pat..I sure have you fooled...*tee-hee*. Thanks...but you are TOOO FUNNY! I come close to blowin' an aneurism every time I pick out fabric. Then I suffer chest pains when I have to cut into it the first time....lol I find it much easier to just let fabric pick me. If it jumps out...it comes home with me...period.

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Any comments (or suggestions) on the Klutz glove?

Haven't used the glove, but some of the new rulers have a "fence" to protect the hand. Can't say I've ever felt the need, but then I don't have a lot of power in my wrists. So I usually don't use a lot of power behind the cutter. I don't do more than about 4 layers at a time, and use a sharp blade. The biggest problem I have is the ruler slipping. And I've found a new ruler that almost never slips.

Thanks Jeb!
I recently found this clear stuff that just sticks to the back of my templates. It works WELL! Can't think of the name of it, but it's easily applied and removed (to reposition) if you don't get it right the first time.

Thanks for your glove comments. I have not bought one yet... I was just wondering.