Monday, February 20, 2012

The Hunt

Once upon a time, my very favorite local quilt store went out of business. I picked up my share of fabric deals during their closing sale including 1 yard of a Luna Notte by 3 sisters - a beautiful deep cream with print and 2 yards of Rouenneries by French General in a faded red.

Last fall, one of my blog buddies gets a few of us interested in making a Jacobs ladder quilt.  I decide to use these fabrics and test assemble a single block.


I fall in love.   I realize that I need another yard of the cream and after a bit of searching, I find it online and order a yard.  (I was a bit nervous with this purchase because I wasn't 100% certain I had picked the right print from the line.)


I cut a yard of each fabric and stacked it up next to my machine for my leader and enders.  Time passed and then I had this in January.




I fall deeper in love. I decide to call the quilt Romance.


I made more blocks and now it looks like this.






I calculate how big it will be with the fabric I have - 2 yards of each - and decide I want it to be bigger.  


I go back on line.   I didn't recall where I had purchased the 3 Sisters print the first time I needed a yard but I found a store that carried it and ordered another yard plus another print of that line for the backing.  (I've now committed myself to the final size.)   


From a different store, I find the red from  Rouenneries line and order a yard.   (Oh, and since this is one of my favorite on line stores, I managed to order yards of other stuff.  But that is a story for another day...)


Fabric arrives.  UGH.  While the print is the correct one and the color is red, it is a deeper shade of red that I am using.  (The one I am using is on the left, the new one on the right.)



First thought that passes is could I wash it and fade it... or put it in the sun.  But then I think.  The print I ordered was from  Rouenneries Duex.  A bit of a google search later and I figure out that the print I wanted was from the initial release of the  Rouenneries line from 2010 (circa when my local QS went out of business.)   Back to google for a desperate search for an online store with inventory.

Hurrah!  I find some.  I've ordered a yard and it is on its way.

This quilt is now graduating from my leader and ender to my major project.  I want it to deliver it to my FMQer in April.


I cut up the fabric I do have at hand and go on a HST marathon sewing session yielding a pile waiting to be trimmed.




To be continued....


Happy Stitching!

9 comments:

  1. Oh, the adventures of online fabric shopping... I'm glad you found more of that lovely red fabric!

    Your JL blocks are lovely and you're going to end up with a beautiful quilt!

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  2. Your Jacobs ladder block is gorgeous!and glad you found more fabrics.

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  3. What a treasure hunt. It's hard when we want a fabric that is no longer available. I love your Romance quilt. I know it's gonna look wonderful.

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  4. That is a beautiful quilt! Glad you found fabric to finish it--love the internet!

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  5. Love the colours. What size will it be when its finished and how much of each material did you buy???

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  6. To me this fabric mis-match seems like an opportunity. I would make blocks with the darker fabric in the lighter one's place and I would use those darker blocks all around the edge as a sort of border. I think it would be lovely that way.

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  7. This is a beauty. I love your name for it as it fits so well.

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  8. It's so pretty - it's going to be worth all the trouble.
    Lillian @ lillianscupboard.wordpress.com

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