Fabscrap Haul, Part One

I made another order from Fabscrap, this time for scrap packs of lace, green fabric, purple fabric, and multi cotton. Today I'll show you just the lace pile.

I was really bowled over at the colors and variety of lace I received. I've always wanted to make a lace quilt of my own design, but I rarely use lace except for crazy quilting, so I never acquired enough to make a try. Now I can.

All the pieces are very generous, and the patterns are all different. The quality is insanely wonderful.

Some of the pieces are intricate and have patterns I've never before seen.

Having all these colors and patterns to work with is so amazing. The quality of the entire pile is like new. I never expected the lace to be this nice, and once more I'm dismayed that this fabric might otherwise be in a landfull. Since lace tends to be expensive, to buy even 1/8 yards of this in all these colors would cost major $$$.

Stop in tomorrow and I'll show you pics of the rest of the haul.

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

The Mercantile

If you don't mind walking 33K square feet in retail space, The Mercantile may be the vintage/arts store you'd enjoy visiting if you're ever in Orlando. I certainly did. Because it was busy I didn't take any photos in the store, but it's absolutely amazing and chock full of antiques and artisan creations, most of which were pretty reasonably priced. For $21.00 I invested in a picture of sailboats for the guest bathroom I'm redoing, and a fairy mystery jar of cool stuff. The jaw was hand-painted and decorated, and utterly charming. I think I wanted the jar more than the contents. As you can see the contents were both generous and pretty cool, too. I finally have some vintage gloves to use for my art quilter bingo challenge!

Rayen

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