The Kei will be perfect for the quilt, but the deer...not sure. The blue is darker and has more of a grey cast than the blue in the seahorses and the red is darker. It's gorgeous though, and if it doesn't end up in the quilt it'll be something else fabulous instead!
Last night I spent a bit of time cutting fabric, and now I have two WIP. One for Mat and one for Hazel (not hard to guess which is which!). And look at the brand of the pattern there - Kwik Sew! See I do listen when people tell me not to be a snob about the brand. We'll see how it goes :)
Ok, back to work on Wednesday's lectures, it's going to be hard switching from fabric to evidence for disease and plague in skeletal populations! Oh, and big hello to the new people who have started following the blog in the last few days :)
*not really, I love that kind of thing, that's why I'm a bioarchaeologist!
That deer fabric screems cushion I love it, would like to hear your take on kwik sew thinking about stocking them as a back up to the oliver and s, looked for the strech fabric ones you wanted but they didn't have them may be they are just too new :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous fabrics. Loving that deer fabric in particular but they do look like very hard colours to match. It would make fabulous cushions. Hope you have a fun day with your skulls!
ReplyDeleteI always loved osteology class. Good fun, that.
ReplyDeleteI guess that's the main drawback to buying fabric online - you're reliant on
ReplyDeletethe photograph being accurate and your monitor displaying it properly. The
photos of the fabric showed it as being much lighter than it is. If I'd seen
it in RL I'd have known immediately it wasn't quite right. I still love it
though!
lovely fabrics - I'm keen on the trees in blue and purple - do you remember the designer etc??
ReplyDeleteyou should talk work more often - very curious to know more. sounds totally interesting. (you sound like Bones talking....).
ReplyDeletepity the fabric was wrong colours; at least it's pretty, so you can use it somewhere else.
It's a cute print isn't it? I got it from Spotlight earlier in the year, so
ReplyDeleteyou might be able to find it about still.
If only I had ummmm...the guy, the one I think of Angel still...Boreanaz or
ReplyDeletewhatever his name is, as well! I'll try and remember to talk more about what
I do, it just doesn't always flow with the talk of fabric etc! Like
switching from talking about red quilt fabrics to what syphilis does to the
skeleton is not only a bit of a stretch, syphilis isn't something you
usually talk about in polite company and what it does is distinctly
unpleasant! Whereas red quilt fabric is all about the pleasant. But yeah, a
few gunshot wounds, bit of skull deformation, throw in some syphilis - it's
all between friends here really. Well hopefully not the syphilis...
Yeah, I want to do a cushion too but I think Mat's a little less
ReplyDeleteenthusiastic about it! I'll have to work on it.
I've been more than pleasantly surprised with this one Kwik Sew pattern I
have to say, the fit is really good. They use some different techniques
which are interesting and I am so in love with how they do the shirt yoke!
So yeah, so far a big thumbs-up on Kwik Sew but that's just the one pattern
:) They do lots for kids too which I'm going to have a look at.
The Oliver+S stretch patterns were only released last month I think it was,
so they are pretty new. I think some of the ones you got have actually been
discontinued which surprises me because they only came out a year ago or so.