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!
