Art Spirals

We just got back from a little vacation in New Mexico, and I shopped at three great fabric/quilting stores, and a neat Art Gallery, so I thought I'd do a show and tell, and plug for the places. First, the glorious fabrics:



The top batik is amazing, the second is called Botanical Bugs, love it, the next I plan to fussy cut to make some peaches for my next project, and the bottom I saw in various colorways in all three stores, Fairy Frost. It has a lovely sheen to it. Cotton.



The dark green print is a brushed cotton, I LOVE the lime green pine needle print and the others are wonderful.

Can you tell I have certain colors in mind? I just Love this screaming wonderful colors now. I still love blues/green/purples but I certainly have a ton of them, and I'm sorely lacking these (and also bright yellows, but I didn't find any pure yellows that I really liked.) And I watched the Ricky Tims video. I doubt I'd do the tulip pattern he does, but I might use the techniques to do other things. An enjoyable view though. He seems like a neat person to know.

Here are the fabric stores: Jill's Fabric & Design, (505) 885-1184 121 S Canyon St, Carlsbad, NM 88220 (the downtown). Martha's Fabrics in Ruidoso, NM and Homestead Quilting in Alamogordo, NM.

In Ruidoso there's a neat scrapbook/yarn/beading store called We Cree8, in the midtown section of Ruidoso, that if you're there, you'll want to check out. Martha's Fabrics is immense, loads of decorating fabrics and fancy fabrics, smaller section of quilting fabrics...be careful, you may get lost in there and never get out!




The ultrasuede is a request from Wendy, it's definitely more of a blue grey than it shows there. The blue/peach fabric is a Thomas Kinkade piece called Sunset. I see now that the selvage says: "intended solely for noncommercial use". Geesh. I have some thoughts on THAT!

And, I can't figure out why the font changed in these paragraphs, I LIKE IT, but can't make the preceding paragraphs bigger. I think I need a different blog platform!

The yarn is hand dyed and spun by Dedri Quillin. Here's her blog and website. Her work is BEAUTIFUL! I was hard pressed to pick just one of the gorgeous colors of wool there in a lovely basket. If there were smaller balls, I would have bought many, because I won't need this much for the work I do, but these colors will be great for my peach/blue project. I wish now I had taken a picture of the basket of wools. It was SCRUMMY!



Now I just had to have this blue print, not as though I don't have tons in those colors already



I bought (gasp) these two 3000 yd spools of King Tut. More than I wanted to spend to try it out, but I had already spent the gas to get there, and wanted to support local. I know now I could order them online, but that's ok.

I love the teal varigate, and the blue grey is for my peach project. The purple varigate is signature, the only 20 wt she had (it was a mistake that it came), the orange varigate is a sulky 30 wt. and the YLI yellow/orange is a Jean thread...I thought I'd try it in the bobbin. These white on white fabrics I think will dye/paint wonderfully, maybe like Diane's? and I got the scissors Wendy suggested I get for FME.

Oh and yes, I filled up on any possible fusible needs. I had steam a seam 2, but was running out; tons of Heat n Bond (which I'm not happy with)...so now I have Misty Fuse, Wonder Under, Stitch Witchery (bought before I found the first two), Sulky temporary adhesive, and also Bo Nash. Whew. Now I just have to remember what to DO with each of them!