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09/01/2004: "Odd requests and odd fabrics"

i picked out a palette of fabrics for another quilt today. after i finished the one for beth, i decided that i needed one for myself. besides, a friend of mine is talking about doing an exhibition show next fall with work by teaching artists that she knows. i never keep any of the work i do. i almost always give things away as gifts and so i would have a hard time finding things to show.

so here is my collection. the teal with polka-dots is going to be borders between all the blocks and the blocks will be made from 4 prints each of the other colors. i decided to make this the "elephant" quilt. i am doing all elephant blocks, like the one i posted several days ago. i have put a couple together already but those pictures will wait for another post

while she was cutting my fabric, the nice lady at the cutting counter remarked that i had an "odd collection" of colors. not exactly what one wants to hear after spending an hour choosing just the right stuff. it is very difficult to choose 20+ fabrics that all go together somehow. most of my fabrics are tone-on-tone prints - where the pattern is in a darker or lighter shade of the background. the only multi-colored print is the polka-dots. i think there is as much art/design involved in color and fabric choices in a quilt as there is in actually sewing the thing.

anyhow, while the cutting counter lady was cutting she got a phone call asking if they carried "emerald green fake fur". ??? odd. then she said that last week, they got an even weirder request. a lady came in looking for belt loops. she was shocked to hear that fabric stores don't usually carry them.