Yesterday quilting friend Joyce picked me up and off we went to Fallbrook. They have a really lovely quilt store there and we hoped to find fabric for me to use in the class Joyce is teaching on September 23rd. She is so patient! Her mind was racing to see all the fabrics, but she was devoted to helping me. That is a great friend. Here is how patient she was . . . I choose one focus fabric and was finding all the other six fabrics and it took some time, then scrapped it all when I found another focus fabric that seemed more me. We began pulling fabric for that one, when she found a panel that matched the focus fabric. And, that's when it hit me. I think I already bought this fabric line for a Christmas quilt. (You know you like it when you buy it twice!) So I scrapped that and decided to wait. Frankly, I was overloaded by looking at fabric. But, when Joyce looks at fabric, it is a whole other situation. She sees one fabric and finds four others to go with it, sees it in her head, and start stacking up the bolts. It is a pleasure to watch. Really. I appreciate her gift and love to watch it. She found several black fabrics with silver designs in houses with hearts (our fav) and had to buy it. I can't wait to see what she makes from it all. And, of course, there was Mary Engelbreit fabric and she loves, loves, loves her fabric. I do, too, but on a lesser degree - probably only love, love. So cute, so Joyce, so fun.
Then, we went to lunch at Rio Rico's except that it is now a restaurant called "Z" and very nice indeed. Totally great food, decor, and lots of people. That's the sign of a good restaurant. They have breakfast until 2 p.m. so the Breakfast Buddies (Bubba and Barnacle Butt) will have to go and rate their coffee and hash browns. But, that's another blog. And, frankly they are better at eating breakfast than updating the blog. (I know I should talk.)
Anyway, then we came back to my house and pulled a fabric line that I had bought online (blue and white, natch) and decided it would work for her class. So, I got away with only buying one yard of fabric in Fallbrook. It was a french blue polka dot that I couldn't pass up. Probably the perfect color of blue. Seriously.
It was a good day.
