How to Save $11

Finding the right fabric for the setting pieces on my daughter's quilt is really starting to drive me bananas.  When I initially bought fabric for this project, I got pink with polka dots, pink spirals on white, pink furry stuff, solid pink, white on white, tan on white, and three pink/green prints all selected to go with the pink rose stripe.  None of them go. I was guided toward deep pink, but it's a little girl quilt, so I wimped out and got light pink daisies.  Not sufficient.  I made it to the local independent sewing store today and they have BEAUTIFUL fabrics.  They agreed about deep pink, and I bought a yard of a wild lipstick colored damask.  It looked fine in the store, but once I brought it home it was a big NO.  While I was fuming about having paid full price for something that wouldn't work at all, I realized I had some leftover fabric from the cart seat cover I made (the one in the original post of this blog) that might be just right.  I dug it out, and while it's a little loud, the color is actually spot on.  So had I had my cotton fabrics folded nicely and organized by color - rather than stashed into old grocery shopping bags stashed into bigger old shopping bags -  I would have seen immediately that I had a loud pink print I could try, rather than dropping $11.

But being the stickler that I am - and after my husband's one description of the leftover hot pink as "loud" and the $11 pink as "ok, THAT'S loud" - I made one last attempt at getting something appropriate.  Here's what's up for evaluation right now:

I hope it grows on me, because I'm not buying any more fabric for this quilt.

As far as progress goes, I worked this afternoon piecing the pink and white strips together.  They actually look pretty cheery as they come off the machine, and I wish I had some festive use for them.

I'm crafty, but even I don't think I could make piles of these just to use as garlands for a party.  So I guess they'll go into the quilt where they belong.  I got several rows done before I ran completely out of white thread.  (How does that happen??!) Since I can't go anywhere during naptime, I retooled for knitting and sat down on the couch to watch All the Queen's Men.  The reviews for the movie were not good, but I usually disagree with critics and I think Eddie Izzard is fabulous, so I got it anyway.  It really is not good.  Eddie did not disappoint, but the writing was just not good, and I'm pretty much done with Matt LeBlanc now. 

I'm restocked on white thread, so tomorrow I'm back to piecing strips.  No more shopping is allowed until Sunday.  If I get the top totally done (unlikely) it'll have to get folded and put up while I knit something in the meantime.