What fabric should I use??

Decision, decisions, what fabric should I use?

When we decide to work on a project, something as small as a little table topper, we agonize over what fabrics we should use. This weekend I worked on making this little topper. The pattern and kit were purchased in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the Attic Window Quilt Shop. It was easy. Here was this cute pattern, and the brown kit, using pumpkin fabric with accents of brown. Love it. It turned out great. Then I decide to make it again.

This time with Halloween fabric. I don't have a lot, but you think I could come up with 4 fat quarters that go together.

Then there is Christmas fabric. Now I do have quite a stack of various styles and colors of Christmas, but again 4 fat quarters that I thought go well together?? And last but not least 4th of July, or red white and blue. Surely that should not be a problem. After all I made 3 scrap flag quilts after 9/11. I have lots of basic red, and blues, and do have more patriotic fabric, with stars and flags and other symbols of patriotism.

Should I use this or this, should I uses contrasting fabrics, maybe it should be from a certain collection. Can I use a batik with a 30's, or how about with a civil war with it. Sometimes we just over think what we are doing. Are we afraid if we cut into a fat quarter, we could have used that one piece with something else down the road? Maybe we can never find that fabric again. Decisions, decisions. simple or complicated, we put our heart and soul in to our quilting.

Tomorrow we leave for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to visit with friends. Pat and I will leave Thursday morning to travel to Iron River for a quilt retreat. Several of her quilting buddies will be going too. Our husbands will have to fend for themselves for a couple of days while we are sewing our way to new quilts! My fabric is packed, and so are my sewing supplies, now I need to think about clothes! What should I take, will it be cool, or hot, capris, or jeans, t-shirts or sweatshirts? Again, decisions!

I will update when I return home. So looking forward to several days of sewing with quilting friends. Have a great week.

In quilting friendship

Mary