Fabric Shopping Day

This morning, Debbie and I went to Yelm to go shopping for fabrics. We wanted panels and ended up with more. First, we stopped at Dutch Brothers for something to drink, then headed on to Yelm. it was a good ride. It's about an hour north of us. 

We arrived and found a panel that was marked "last one." So, we picked that up along with a lot of other panels that will work for what we are doing. 

They had this really pretty fabric of eagles in squares. There is so much we can do with this one. Plus, we got some fabrics that go with some of the "odd" colors in some of the panels. We ended up spending over $600 for fabrics. 

Then I was looking for some fabric for Katt. I want to do the applique cat "Two Fabric Applique" piece I have. Even though I wanted to keep it a surprise, I really couldn't because she's so picky. I had her call me for some fabric choices. I sent her some photos of the fabrics they had in the colors she wanted. 

Not orange but colors she would go for. She decided on the one at the end (right) and the third one in from the right. 

The photo is brighter than it really is. But I took those colors and then went looking for a black. I couldn't quiet find what I wanted, till I saw this one. It works great. I'm going to make that pattern on the fabric. I have had that pattern for a good 10 years. I was going to do that for Katt way back when. I decided it was time, when I went downstairs and started clearing out my quilt room for the garage sale. I still have to go through the room again, but right now, I'm good. Katt wanted it a "lap" size. So, I figure I can make it about 60 x 80, since those are lap sizes we do for the veterans. I hope I got enough fabric for this. I'm pretty sure I did. BUT DANG! $15 a yard!! How crazy is that! I ended up spending $118 for just that fabric! Now I know why I don't do as much quilting as I used to - getting to expensive. I really do want to do this one for her, so I will work on getting it ready to applique. Then I will quilt it by hand. I'm actually excited to do this. FIRST, I will finish my cross stitching. It will give me a motive to get the cross stitch done!

My foot is giving me trouble, so I had Patrick wrap it for me. It seemed to help. I need him to wrap it again tonight because when I sleep, I seem to mess it up more. Not sure what I did to it, but it's getting worse. I'm thinking I must have sprained it. UGH

Saturday is our day at the Panda! We will get 50% of sales. People just need to let them know they are there for us. I hope we can get a good amount of money Saturday. 

So, even though I can't say I was actually quilting, I can say that it had to do with quilting, which makes me Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!