Yellow Bow-Tie Blocks

Woohoo!  Another 100 Bow-Tie blocks are finished!  I finished piecing them Sunday night but didn't get them pressed and ready to store until Monday afternoon.  Of course I had to play with these pretty yellow blocks.

When I say play, I mean grouping them.  In the Joann Fabrics bunch there is one Hancock's print on the far right.  Since I only had one fabric from Hancock's I added to the Joann's bunch.  And in the poly-cotton group there is one poly cotton thrift shirt on the far right.

When I first started building my fabric stash, I did a lot of thrifting and repurposing of fabric. Most of the thrifty fabrics have been used in quilts and there is very little left in my stash.  So, when I run across a piece of thrifty scraps it makes me smile.  The yellow floral thrifted sheet (far right) is one of my favorites.

A few years ago, I made a super cute quilt and sashed it with that adorable sheet.  The red gingham in this quilt was also a sheet.

Funny how we know where most of our fabric was purchased.  Some of these Walmart prints were purchased way back in the early 2000's when Walmart decided to get rid of the fabric department.  It was a dream come true for me because they put it all on clearance.  At that time, I was a single mom with very little extra cash.  Every little bit of extra money went towards Walmart clearance fabric.

Even my most loved designer fabrics were purchased on sale.  My collection of Lakehouse Drygoods is fairly large.  Most of it was purchased during clearance sales for about $5 a yd.  From time to time, I still troll the internet looking for Lakehouse fabrics to add to my stash.  But these days they are very expensive.  The seller always uses the words RARE and OUT OF PRINT.  And then slaps a ridiculous price on them.  I've seen them for as high as $45 a yd.  Not worth it!

  I'm a collector of Lakehouse but I don't all their fabrics. Take for instance that cherry print in the middle of the picture below.  I used the last small piece to make this block.  I grouped it with the Lakehouse but I don't think it's a Lakehouse fabric.  Do you know the manufacturer and designer?  

Well playtime is over, and the little cuties have been stored with others.  700 Bow-Tie blocks.  The tutorial for the Bow-Tie block can be found here.

 

Only 200 more to go!