Munchkin Quilts

Take Off Tote

2014-12-30T11:44:00.000-08:00

I've been doing secret sewing on a quilt top that can't be shared which is why I haven't really been blogging. That said, I finished up my IG Mini Swap quilt, received one in turn, and have made a few other small things recently. This is a round up post of the things I've been working on other than the one big quilt top (and it will be big at 93" square).

To start: my mom's birthday quilt. It hasn't actually made it to her because of the backing, unfortunately flipping over on itself for the last column, and me not having had a chance to unpick that column of quilting to redo it then bind. That said, she knows she's getting it and has seen it in person. It fits with the color scheme of the living room at her house perfectly. And you can see that I'm now using the Singer 66 for my quilting, and the stitches are great.

Pippa wanted to show you what the extension table is really for:

And the whole quilt laid out on my bed, which is queen sized for reference. This quilt is a throw, not full bed sized though.

My IG Mini Swap quilt as I was quilting it. I did pebbles in the background areas.

And here it is, unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of it once it was bound before it went off in the mail to England.

This is a block that I made nearly two years ago (maybe a little more). I decided it will become a pillow cover and I wanted to practice hooked swirls. I still need more practice, but adding to FMQ repetoire with small scale practice is always good.

This is the IG Mini Swap that I received. Quilts From the Attic made this for me, and he based the nautical theme off the fact that I'm in the Navy. Plus, he sent some nice goodies along.

And here it is hanging on my dining room wall. I hung it within 20 minutes of receiving it. I love the colors and the matchstick quilting. Before you ask - no the flags don't spell anything, most of them are just made up and don't follow actual flags.

And here is another long standing flimsy that I've had, and I decided to practice meandering feathers on the chevrons.

And the completed mini, which will also likely become a pillow cover.

And then lastly, over the weekend I got the pattern for the Take Off Tote from Dog Under my Desk. I love her patterns since they have photos of every step of the way. The pattern for this bag was 43 pages including the pattern pieces, around 30 of actual step by step instructions. I was never confused and it came together in about 4 hours total. I also learned a new zipper technique. Between the straps on the back, it has instead of a pocket, a slide so that it can sit on top of a rolling suitcase and not slip off. That's why it's called the Take Off Tote. These fabrics came from Jo-Ann where I had gone to get the needed interfacing since they were on crazy sale, and I love swirls and polka dots, can't go wrong with either.

Interior has a big double pocket.

I really like the wide open zip on the top of this, very easy to see things in the bag and not be searching for something that has slipped to the bottom. It also has a firm base, and the pattern includes a pocket to slide in a piece of cardboard, or in my case, plastic template cut to size.

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Metro Lattice

2014-10-30T12:54:00.003-07:00

I'm entering my Metro Lattice quilt into the Blogger's Quilt Festival in the Small Quilt Category. I put the binding on it a couple of weeks ago and it's been out in my living room ever since (we'll ignore that I also have unbound quilts that live on the couch, too, until the spirit moves me to get my act together and finish them up). The sequence of photos that follow are the quilt itself and the process from basting to binding. I did simple straight lines on this and bound with one of the Barcelona prints that I also used as the backing. It finishes at 48"x58".

Pippa helped me baste, as per usual. This picture sums up a lot of things: quilting, cat, and wine.

So many lines! Straight line quilting takes a lot longer than FMQ.

I couldn't bind without my trusty wonder clips or supervisor in the background.

Some stipple, a new toy, and a bag

2014-09-24T23:29:00.002-07:00

As I've referenced before, the DCMQG is the coordinating guild of 100 Quilts 4 Kids. Along with individual guild members donating quilts, the guild as a whole comes together to make group quilts. I quilted one of them last week (and will put the binding on this weekend). This one got an all over stipple.

I also started making blocks for a new quilt because I wanted to play with my new toy. which is pictured below - it's a compass rotary cutter. It makes perfect circle cuts, and thus it makes perfect quarter circles when making drunkard's path blocks. Curves have definitely become part of my piecing repertoire without the fear that once hung over them.

And lastly, I made a pleated bag for taking to temple tonight when I started getting bored of drunkard's path blocks. I found a nice tutorial, and made it pretty quickly. The lining is royal blue which echoes the stars on the outside. It's big enough to hold my tallis, machzor, phone, and wallet. I made the handle a little longer than the tutorial called for since I like a bigger drop on my bags.

Faux Cathedral Windows Pattern on Craftsy

2014-09-14T14:58:00.003-07:00

The Faux Cathedral Windows pattern is live on Crafty now.

Visit my Craftsy Shop to get it.

Finished! (7 months later...)

2014-09-14T00:27:00.002-07:00

I finally put the binding on my Irish Chain made from Allison Glass streamers. I'll own that I had it out on my couch and used it back in February/March without binding because, as I've said before, binding is my least favorite step of quilt making. I used the same black print for the binding that was used for the corner stones. And one strip of the red which goes around one of the corners.

#IGMiniSwap and a Pattern

2014-09-07T13:19:00.002-07:00

Hello, readers, for all of you who follow on Instagram, too, you'll know that I just made a faux cathedral windows top for my IG Mini Swap partner. It got such a great response that I wrote up a pattern which is now with testers. Once I get feedback re: my pattern writing skills (this is my first one ever written so I expect LOTS of feedback since I included two experienced pattern writers in the tester group), the pattern will be released on Craftsy.

From sketch to actual mini quilt, this only took a couple of nights.

Cathedral Windows without the headache of much folding and pinning or zig zag stitching oddly folded blocks together.

I made another one...

2014-08-27T18:53:00.000-07:00

The Sew Together Bag by Sew Demented is a wee bit addicting. It's such a fun bag with its zippers and pockets and fun finish of zipper that is handle. Because I like making them, and one of my best friends from college requested one from fabric that I was trying to destash via Instagram, a commissioned bag was spawned. This was the seventh one I've made and it took me just under 2.5 hours from start to finish. I love my Pfaff which can handle all the layers when putting the sides together with the body of the bag.

Along with wanting the elephants as the focus print, she said I could use any other blue that I wanted throughout. So I went with a mix of Allison Glass Streamers and V and Co Simply Style plus a solid ocean blue.

The front and back (is there really a front/back) are identical with the patchwork stripe.

Pocket linings! It's always fun to have a little pop of the unexpected.

This shows the streamers as the middle two open pockets and the inside of the accordion pieces.

100 Quilts 4 Kids Bloghop

2014-08-13T04:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the second stop on the 100 Quilts 4 Kids Bloghop!

The DC Modern Quilt guild runs a charity quilt drive each year called 100 Quilts 4 Kids. It was started by Katie Blakesley of SwimBikeQuilt, the guild's former president. This year the quilts will be donated to the Carpenter's Shelter in Alexandria, VA. For people who donate quilts there are some great prizes available! The DCMQG is also working on several group quilts. I will be doing the quilting on one of them at the September meeting.

I'm using this is a way to push myself to finish up WIPs and using orphan blocks.

Quilt 1: Ratoon Hiding (see the original post to learn about the title)

I had a lot of fun practicing a new freemotion pattern on this quilt. It's small ~30"x40"

Quilt 2: Riley Blake Quilt Challenge Faux Cathedral Windows

This one hasn't been quilted yet, but it's also a small quilt.

Quilt 3: Set in Hexagons measures ~50"x48"

This one will have a minky backing to make it extra soft. Then it will be bound in red to echo the internal border. The white border will have some fun freemotion in red thread.

Metro Lattice - Piecing done in a week.

2014-08-09T15:09:00.001-07:00

I'm pretty pleased with the Metro Lattice pattern to make a Double Wedding Ring quilt. This one will finish to 54"x60" once I put the connector pieces on either side; those are cut and pieced, just not ironed and trimmed so they didn't make it up onto the design wall. However, you can see the little squares on the left side that will go between them.

I'm going to have fun with free motion quilting on this one. I haven't decided if I'm going to do an all over design or custom quilting with the rings/centers being different.

Curves and more curves

2014-08-03T14:49:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was the DCMQG sewing day at Finch Studio in Leesburg, VA. It was my first time in Leesburg (without being at a soccer field or the outlets). Finch is a great sewing space, and there were many little restaurants which the guild availed itself to when it was lunch time.

Since the sewing space was limited, I didn't bring the big bed quilt that I'm working on, Framed Squares, so I brought the Quick Curve Ruler and charm packs of Barcelona which I had already started sewing into HSTs to make the Metro Lattice pattern - aka Double Wedding Ring without the annoyance. In all honesty, I didn't actually buy the pattern, but was able to figure out the construction just by looking at pictures of it. I think mine is actually a little smaller than the official pattern since I used charm squares to make my centers.

This was my practice block using scraps from my polka dot quit. You can see that I wasn't super careful and matched up the purple and green cut outs (oops!), but this is why it was a practice block.

Here is my work area at Finch and then a basic layout just on the cutting mat to show what this will look like. I haven't actually done the calculations because I'm a little lazy on it, but the finished product will have 30 center squares, which should make it approximately 50"x60"

New Toy!

2014-07-24T06:47:00.001-07:00

So as quilters, we all know that notions = toys. I had a whole bunch if credit card rewards that I can now link to Amazon. I had been eyeing a Quick Curves Ruler by Sew Kind of Wonderful for quite some time, but it's hard to justify a $25 ruler; that becomes much easier when it becomes only $1.87 out of pocket.

Last night to inaugurate sewing curves - my first time when it wasn't a 3D object turned out well. It helps that they have a series of YouTube tutorials to explain how to use the ruler correctly.

If you'll remember to late June, I posted about a pink block I made for a charity quilt going to a cancer center in Grand Rapids, MI. Rather than just make blocks that would never be used, my practice blocks (that were good enough) were made in the pink theme for Anna to add to the quilt.

While I was sewing, I had company from Pippa, who is as I write becoming less of a lady at the Spay Spot - friendly reminder it's actually bad for female cats to have repeated heat cycles without having kittens, it can cause major hormonal imbalances leading to cysts and other health issues. But as always, she was my supervisor. She probably won't be jumping quite that high for the next week or two.

Slow times...

2014-07-19T04:59:00.002-07:00

It's been nearly a month since the last post. I got to the end of night shift, but since I had gone on vacation in the middle of the 10 weeks for my college reunion, I got thrown into that jet lag feeling again and just wasn't feeling the draw to the sewing room.

I'm back on days now and have sunlight for working. I'm plugging along on the Framed quilt with 48 blocks done. Only 30 fit on my design wall at a time though! This was on the dining room floor, but they've since been transferred to the wall. I'm thinking of making it 86x98 instead of the full 98x98, which was the original intention.

My other project yesterday was making a scrub cap. I've started shadowing CRNAs (Nurse Anesthetists) in the OR at work in preparation for submitting my grad school paper work through the Navy. I had to wear the lunch lady mesh hair net, and decided that wasn't my thing. I went on Etsy and bought a great, simple pattern for $4 and had this made in under half an hour. It even has elastic in the back. The ones for sale there were all $12-18, which just seemed like too much for something I knew I could make easily. And the moose are so cute - it was a novelty print that I've had in my stash for a while. I will definitely be making more of these.

For Pinks Sakes

2014-06-21T04:43:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop!

This blog hop is being done by many quilters across the country. Each person is making at least one block for a charity quilt that will be donated to the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion in Grand Rapids, MI, where Anna Gering's Mother-in-Law, Tina, has been getting her cancer treatment. (Fun fact, I'll be going out to Grand Rapids in August with my rowing team for USRowing Master's Nationals).

If anyone wants to get involved and repost about the blog hop, donate a block, or contributes to the Go Fund Me campaign there is a give away that will happen on August 2nd. Find more information by clicking on the button above which links back to Anna's blog, Life Sew Crafty, which has all the details. Anna's MIL has been very upbeat throughout the whole treatment process, but the one thing getter her down has been the medical bills, so if you've got the resources, think about donating.

The block I created was a simple HST 16 patch. I love all the different patterns one can make with HSTs. This is a pink fabric that I've had in my stash for quite awhile, and now it's going to an excellent cause. I paired it with a pale pink solid from Art Gallery. The block is 12.5" square. I started with 4" squares of each fabric, drew the line down the middle, sewed my 1/4" seam on either side and cut. That's my favorite method of making HSTs. I like bold, geometric designs and the strong diagonals was the winner of the several layouts I auditioned.

May 10

Anna @ Life Sew Crafty

Sarah @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Robin @ Miscellaneous Thoughts
Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures

May 24

Jess @ Quilty Habit

Melinda @ Quirky Granola Girl

Kristyn @ Melon Patch Quilts

June 7

Amy @ The Calico Cat

Leanne @ Devoted Quilter

Terrie @ Quilting Nonnie

June 21

Carla @ modern bias

Meli @ Munchkin Quilts
Stacey @ The Tilted Quilt
Julie @ The Crafty Quilter

July 5

Erin @ Sew at Home Mummy

Lyanna @ BlueStripedRoom
Heather @ Quilts in the Queue

July 19

Katie @ Swim Bike Quilt

Sarah @ {no} hats in the house
Katie @ Snuggle Up with a Dish from Karma

New Quilt

2014-05-10T21:16:00.002-07:00

This quilt is going to be a big one because in my head I was thinking each block was 10" rather than 12" square. So 98"x98" it will be. That said, I'm totally ok with that since I'm a big fan of all the fabric in it. The inspiration came from a snippet of a photo on pinterest, where this quilt was in the background, but it was easy to discern the pattern.

The original fabric that made me choose the others were from Riley Blake's Madhuri line then I added in Kate Spain Garden Party, Thomas Knauer Frippery, and Terra Australis.

The quilty math where I realized it was 12" rather than 10" that'd I'd had in my head (which is the size before the second sashing with colored rectangles).

All the center squares plus sashing rectangles.

The first two blocks done. I made these with regular piecing, the rest will be chain pieced, but I wanted to make a couple samples to ensure that they'd finish to 12.5" (and they do, perfectly!)

And Pippa because she was climbing all over while I was cutting and assembling.

All petals ironed

2014-04-27T23:34:00.000-07:00

As a follow up to the first post about the MQG Fabric Challenge, I finished ironing down all the petals to the background fabric. There were a good number of extra petals since I couldn't make more full circles in either direction due do space limitations so I added a border all the way around.

Pippa then decided she wanted to help me as I was working on my next project of the weekend.

The innerds of another Sew Together Bag and Pippa who monitored my progress.

The completed bag with binding and external zipper.

And the full exterior - patchwork fun. The colors aren't showing up perfectly here, but the swirly pattern is green which is why I added the green polka dot as the binding.

Michael Miller Challenge

2014-04-26T01:58:00.000-07:00

The Modern Quilt Guild (MQG) parent organization of the DCMQG, has fabric challenges to highlight certain designers several times a year, and currently it's Michael Miller. Each participant is given a stack of fat eighths and one can add any solids and any other Michael Miller prints to their quilted piece - it can be a bag or a quilt or really anything as long as it's quilted. Based on one of the fabrics which is the orange peel design, I decided to make a petal applique quilt. Since I just switched back to night shift, I have a decent amount of time available for sewing since the rest of the world isn't really awake on my off days (nights).

Several months ago during one of the bigger JoAnn coupons/sales periods, I got an entire bolt of WonderUnder. This evening, I ironed that onto the fat eighths and then cut out the petals and started arranging. Based on the picture, that background looks black, but it's really a deep brown. I didn't add any extras beyond the prints from what were given out.

Pippa kept trying to get in on the action and was standing around my feet most of the time while I was ironing, and then she finally jumped up once I finished adding the second row of rings. There will be a few more rings. I think I will quilt it with a light colored thread to really make it pop on the dark background. I'm also thinking that I will only quilt the background and leave the rings to puff up a little bit with the battings.

Done but for the binding

2014-04-16T16:02:00.000-07:00

Dots dots dots and pebbles pebbles pebbles. I felt that the appropriate quilting for the dots quilt was large pebbles. And I definitely think I made the right decision. So the top is fully quilted and trimmed just waiting for binding, but as things typically go with my quilts that'll take several months since it's my least favorite part of the quilting process. Also pictured is my new way of basting. I got 2x4's and wrapped the quilt top and back around them with the batting floated between the two. Those and pinmoors let me baste this quilt which is just shy of 70 inches square in under 45 minutes (one episode of House). It was quilted on my home machine, a Pfaff Ambition with 50wt Aurifil thread.

While quilting:

Fully quilted and trimmed:

The back:

It's easier to see the pebbles on the solid parts of the back.

Back at it... slowly.

2014-04-08T10:53:00.000-07:00

Have you ever gone to the doctor or emergency room for something you thought was going to be an annoyance, but turned into something far more serious? I had that happen on March 20th. I went to the ED for one of my fingers being swollen and not bending properly thinking they'd set up me with antibiotics and a little finger splint. Instead, I was in the OR about 3 hours after being seen by a provider (we'll ignore that 4 hour waiting room time since the triage staff didn't recognize what was actually going on). I had flexor tenosynovitis which is an infection of the flexor tendon which runs up from the wrist to control the first and middle fingers. I was in the hospital for 6 days with another surgery that happened about 36 hours after the first one. From there it was another 4 days of IV antibiotics.

Photos are pre-surgery while I was waiting in the ED.

I've been going to OT 3x/week to ensure that I keep full mobility in my hand/finger. I still have 6 more days off for convalescent leave (con leave is one of the greatest things, your doc says you need a couple week off, and boom you get a couple weeks off).

Over the last few days I've finally been able to get back to sewing and I've been working on my dots top. It's almost fully pieced.

This is the dots quilt up on the design wall with all the blocks made - each block consists of three narrow strips and three squares width wise. There are three columns of 12 rows.

There was one little bit of rearranging as I put all the blocks together (excepting the bottom left section). I swapped the top two blocks on the left so that there wouldn't be two pink squares side by side, which I only noticed after taking the last picture. The blocks are being turned into big blocks which are each 4 segments turning it into a giant 9 patch for final assembly. As well the left blocks get an extra narrow strip to complete the top.

Polka Dots - Lots and Lots of Dots!

2014-03-11T16:32:00.002-07:00

I like polka dots, always have. And the Ta Dot line decided it wanted to be one of my quilts. On Sunday, I went down to Becky's house (@SarcasticQuilter on Instagram) to finally meet her and quilt together. We've been Instagram friends since I lived in Boston, but in the year since I've lived here we've managed to miss each other at DC Modern events going to opposite meetings and other little timing snafus. She also had Karie in town (@Karietkq on Instagram). I cut all my fabric and started sewing down there, and now am about 1/2 of the way through piecing.

The fabrics which just called to be put together. That bigger gray dot in the background is a 108" wide backing fabric. But I think I'll actually use it for a different project.

Here it is so far on my design wall. The only placement considerations are that the same color blocks don't end up directly next to or on top of one and other. I'm constructing them in groups of 3 squares with three rectangles. Just makes them easier to work with. Looking forward to piecing the remaining blocks over the rest of this week.

Irish Chain

2014-03-04T12:58:00.002-08:00

The Irish Chain quilt is now quilted and just waiting for its binding. It is backed with minky - surprise, surprise - and quilted with serpentine lines. It's the first time I've done line quilting on anything bigger than a placemat, and it's definitely a little boring, but I do like how it looks. I chose that because it seemed like a nice echo of the streamer pattern. In each 3" square I did two lines of quilting which means the lines are all approximately 1.5" apart, but nothing was measured exactly. I'm planning to bind this with the black streamers which are the corner blocks, and which I chose not to use in the body of the quilt.

The other new thing with this quilt is that I'm now a Pinmoor convert. They are little silicon nubs that slide over the end of regular pins. Regular pins slide through fabric better than safety pins and these are about 1000x nicer to your fingers while placing them and for removal. I was able to pin the entire top in just over half an hour. For reference it's 55" square, and I used 100 pinmoors approximately every 6". I didn't have any spray baste and I could do this on my dining room table, which I would never do with spray baste anyway.

Detail shot of the quilting:

The fully quilted top over the the back of my couch. I didn't have to remove all the pins during the quilting process if they weren't in the path of the lines, so those are the ones you see there.

My favorite backing of minky, and this one has batting, so it's warm.

Another detail shot of the quilting in natural sunlight.

Pillow and Gallery Opening

2014-02-16T06:10:00.000-08:00

Would you believe this is the first time I've made a pillow since I was about 6? That one has been sitting on my grandparents couch for the last 20 years, not that it matched any of their styles, but it was made by me, and that's what grandparents do.

I've had the scraps from my wonky asterisk quilt sitting separated from my other scraps knowing that I wanted to make pillows to coordinate, but until last week, I just didn't have the spark of inspiration/motivation. On instagram, I saw a simple lattice pattern that just called to be turned into a pillow because making a full quilt of that would be, "Holy thousands of tiny pieces, Batman!"

This pillow has an all over stipple which you can see (somewhat) in the close up from while I was quilting. And there there it is on the couch with the quilt to which is coordinates.

The other big news of the week was the gallery opening of Stitched DC. The Anacostia Art Center worked with the DC Modern Quilt Guild to host a juried show. 36 quilters submitted work (I submitted 3), 24 quilts were chosen with one work selected from each artist. It was entirely the AAC staff who chose quilts, so no influence from any of the DCMQG members. The quilt they selected of mine was Simply Colored Style. It's one of the front quilts in the gallery when you walk in, so that made me do a little happy dance in my head when I got there. This is the first quilt I've ever put up for sale, and there is interest in it already.

Snow Day WIP

2014-02-14T04:43:00.001-08:00

Unless you're under a rock, or perhaps not in the United States, then you'll probably know that the East Coast got hammered with winter weather last night into today. My apartment was no different and when I ventured out at around 9:30 this morning because I realized I didn't have the required cheese for making quesadillas, there was about 12-14" on the ground. And right now at 10pm, there's another band that came in this afternoon that's finally making its way out.

I worked on several things, but only took a picture of one. I sewed the Irish Chain together and cut the strips that will form the border - it's the only thing I took pictures of. I also cleaned up my sewing room and pieced what will be the front of a 16" pillow. It's from the scraps of the wonky asterisk which has been on my couch since I lived in Boston. Tomorrow I will quilt it to batting and add the envelope back, then it will get pictures.

Beyond Neutral COVER!

2014-02-07T14:54:00.000-08:00

For those of you who were readers last spring, you'll know that right after I moved to Maryland, I was piecing a mystery quilt for John Adams, aka Quilt Dad. Well, today he tweeted that the book was now available for pre-order on Amazon. With that tweet, I learned that the quilt I pieced is ON THE COVER!!!!

Here is a screen shot of the cover and the quilt on my floor before I stitched it together (yes the one block that was facing the wrong way on the floor was corrected before the rows were connected).

Ratoon Hiding...

2014-02-05T18:14:00.000-08:00

So the title of this blog post is a family thing, but it's all I could keep thinking to myself as I was pattern testing this Raccoon for Kristy @ QuietPlay's woodland critter. When my aunt was very little, there was a raccoon that lived behind my grandparents' house (there were small woods that separated their backyard from neighbors). When it wasn't there, my aunt would say, "Ratoon hiding," or so I've been told.

This was super fun to make and took me the length of Primary Colors, the movie, from start to finish (about an hour and a half). The blue on the left where it's just the head is a more accurate showing than the finished block - it's brighter than it shows. I think I'm going to get the rest of the set and make myself a little woodland critter collage, or perhaps make mini quilts out of all of them and make a wall hanging gallery. I have one wall in my living room which is BIG and BLANK, and I still haven't figured out exactly what I want to hang, but I've been thinking that a mini-quilt gallery would be fun.

And just for fun, here are puppy pictures because I was in Atlanta this past weekend and got to hang with my aunt's new dog. All of us kept referring to him by the previous dog's name, and since he's from the same breeder and bloodline as his predecessor, he's likely to grow up looking just like him, too.

Month 1 of Fabric Diet Done: Quilt in a Day and Borders

2014-01-28T15:00:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I made all the blocks for an Irish Chain. It's a pattern that is very simple and traditional, but it was spiced up by using Alison Glass streamers. I cut all the squares, and I put them in a paper bag pulling them out at random to make the blocks. I've already figured out what I want to do for borders, but those will have to wait a week or so since I'm going out of town this weekend.

I added the first ring of red and then an 8" white border to the hexagons (forgive the wrinkles, I didn't attempt any smoothing after laying it down). I'm going to put another ring of red, and maybe another narrower ring of white to then bind with red.

This finishes the first month of the 6 month fabric diet that many of us bloggers have put ourselves on. The only fabric I purchased came from The Great Fabric Destash on Instagram where I was able to get 4 yards of my favorite color of oval elements for $5/yard. I sold over $100 worth (after paying for my purchase), so I'm taking a pass on that one. I'm going to keep working from my stash through June with the only upcoming purchases being solids since I'm going to need another bolt of white soon, and backing fabrics.