I Like Thursday # 23 ~ Family and Fabric

I like fabrics.

I like buying them, fondling them,  folding them, sorting them, stashing them, 

taking them out and arranging and rearranging them,

designing quilts with them,

picking the right ones for the right quilt,

choosing the right ones for the right block,

washing, pressing, cutting, sewing,

making a quilt with them.

Most of all I like cuddling under them in their quilt
and stroking them and admiring their

pretty colors and designs.

Fabric is love.

This is my big beautiful stash closet.

I call it "stash spelunking" when I search through this closet 

because it is a dark cave full of treasures and tight spaces,

some of which I rarely explore.

Mostly, I know where every fabric is.

My memory for my stash is very vivid with images

from fondling these beauties

and tucking them away in the best storage place.

There are shelves behind rolling carts,

bins under bins,

stacked and sorted and waiting.

The carts in the front are on wheels to roll them out to get behind them.

Usually I can find the fabrics I need.

Sometimes I have to un-stack  and re-stack things to find what I am searching for.

Sometimes a particular fabric eludes me. 

This was the case recently when looking for the "right" fabrics for the quilt that 

My Girl and I are sewing along together with 

This Quilt Started Here

Block #1 is Up @ Fat Quarter Shop

I have found and chosen my fabrics!

This is the one that was eluding me in my closet.

It was bought somewhere other than with the first stack of fabrics.

Maybe I did not at first recognize that it was the same line as the other 

Kringles Sweet Shop by Maude Asbury for Blend Fabrics, 
that I had stashed away together.
But I knew it would be a good fabric to add to this quilt.
I just needed to find it.

Yesterday I spent some time looking in my closet, literally with a flashlight,

while we were having strong thunderstorms and I had the electric lights turned off

at their power strips.

There was a bonus of unearthing three surprise fabrics,

the pink and the gray hot chocolate mugs and a piece of the cupcakes with white background
~ how did I forget I had these fabrics! ~ 

... and I found a nice green stripe from another fabric line that will be perfect for the binding.

Time to decide and cut and sew the first block!

I am also having fun choosing the right fabrics for the blocks for the

 New Batik Quilt For My Guy

I have six different block layouts now in the quilt from those four layer cake cuts.

This will be a very colorful quilt

and both my hubby and I are happy with the progress,

So my quilting this week is all about family and fabric.

While I was sitting sewing my first block at my machine by the window,
this beauty visited my window box of flowers,
still wet from the rains.

Butterflies are very special in my life.
The story is that a butterfly landed on me where I met my future husband
and he decided it was a sign that I was "The One."
I already knew by the peace and happiness I was feeling inside when we were together.
Butterflies fly to happiness.

I am happy in my sewing corner today.

Life Is Good

I will be spending part of my day enjoying what is good in the life of my friends at

I Like Thursdays @ Not Afraid of Color 

It is good once a week to sit back and think about all the good things in life.

Day 39 ~ Block 39
#100days100blocks2019

Have a Happy Thursday!