Again this year I plan on using my stash. Last year was a stash busting year where my focus was on prints. I still have plenty of prints left and they will make it into a few stash busting quilts throughout the year. Now it's time to hit the solids!
I mainly buy solids when I buy fabric and I've been steadily building my color stash so I have all the options to draw from. From light to dark and everything in between. I never really 'got' there and found that I either buy certain colors too often and rarely buy the colors I need to fill out the rainbow! So, I've given up and given in!
Amazingly I don't blow through my fabric very fast. With all the quilts and things I make my stash stays plump. I chalk that up to my preference of using scraps or as many colors as I can in one quilt. A piece here, a piece there.
This year will be different...I'm going to change my thought process and quit skipping over certain colors because I love them too much!
With all that bluster here's my first attempt!
With my purple stash screaming out to me, I carefully choose a handful of colors that I thought would make a statement. I'm not one to buy just one brand of solids. I tend to buy colors that I'm feeling at the time! Although Kona cotton tends to be my first choice only because they are readily available. That was true once. Nowadays there are several manufacturers to choose from that have every color imaginable.
What do we have?! Kona Regal, Free Spirit Orchid, Kona Heliotrope, Cotton Supreme Lilac, Kona Velvet, Moda Aubergine, Moda Amelia Purple and Cotton Supreme Verbena. All the purples!
Now I wait...patiently? Not really! I'm working on another log cabin quilt. I couldn't help myself! This one will be with solids in three (3) different block sizes and it'll fill up the entire quilt. I won't have to worry about not having enough background fabric!
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