Breaking It Up

Hi Quilty Friends!  Come on in and pull up a chair while I dig through my stash.  I'm a woman on a mission to find enough orange and purple in my stash to make 100 purple and 100 orange Bow-Tie quilt blocks.  The hope of only working from the scrap bins isn't doable.  A couple of you graciously offered to send me your scraps.  Thank you so much!  I was overwhelmed by the kindness and giddy at the thought of new fabric.  But I think the best thing for me to do is work with what I have.  That means I'm going to break my rule of only scraps in the Bow-Tie quilt.  I mentioned a few weeks ago that I would like to use the smaller precuts in my stash because I'm tired of storing them and looking at them.  Anything smaller than a fat quarter must get out of my fabric cabinets ASAP.   So, here's the new plan.  I pulled the precuts that had orange, purple and gray.  I'll pull out the fabrics needed for this quilt and the rest will be put into the scrap bins.

Yes, I opened them all!  Can you believe it?  The days of coveting and hoarding cute little fabric bundles are over, and it feels so good!

It didn't take long to have all the orange I needed.  As you can see some of them are not orange.  Some look red but they are that goofy Cambell's Tomato Soup red.  If you lay the fabric beside a real red fabric, it looks orange.  If you lay it beside a real orange fabric, it looks red.  GOOFY!  And because I was still coming up short a few fabrics, I threw in some dark yellows and an aqua fabric with orange-ish flowers.

Digging for purples didn't go so well.  I did find a few that I'll share later.  

These hideous creatures below will not be a part of my quilt. They were from a Benartex Jelly Roll and didn't look this ugly on the roll.   I can't deal with the shiny gold accent.  

Since I'm still short a few purple fabrics, it's time to dig deep.  Here's my stash cabinets.  The one on the right is my LOVED fabrics.  The one on the left is the not so loved older fabrics and is the one I'll be digging through.

When I first started the Bow-Tie quilt I knew I would fall short on the 100 different prints for each color.  If I fell short I would either add a floral or a fabric from another color.  So, my first dig after the purple fabrics was the calicos.  These should do the trick.  

Then it was onto the larger florals.  Some of them have a tad bit of purple in the flowers.

And while I'm digging, I might as well look for some more orange fabrics and anything else I think might play well in the quilt.  What a fun day I had playing in the stash. 

Here's how the purple turned out.  The green box shows the fabrics pulled from the precuts.  The rest is what was pulled from the cabinet.  Not all of them are purple but that's okay because y'all know I'm not a fan of purple.  That's why I don't have a bunch of it in my scraps or stash.

  

The rest of the opened precut fabrics were neatly tucked into this basket and will be sorted at a later date and put into the scrap bins.  There are a few fat quarters that will not go into the scrap bins. They will go into the fat quarter stash.  

Right now, all I want to do is make some Bow-Tie Blocks!

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