Off to the Expo!

Francine is helping me out here by holding onto just one day's load of goodies acquired at Sewing & Quilt Expo I attended for two days this week.

She stayed home wearing my tablecloth apron adorned with sewing images from
THE GRAPHICS FAIRY .

The fabric choices were phenominal. Of course, this show is angled toward quilters, most of whom have fancy machines that do all the actual stitching but I found loads of inspirational fabrics to create my kind of creations.

Are you familiar with those fabric strips called Jelly Rolls? Here is a huge one.

My sewing buddy, Susan, stands by.

Well, it is pretending to be one. But really is a big piece of foam covered in a jelly roll costume! This is Pam demonstrating how to relax. The pattern is from Carol at Aunties Two. Check it out.

 

This is a better view of the stack at the rear left in the pic below

 

Found lots of dots...my current passion

This rick-rack is huge and the colors are great

This was abargain find. It is so unusual and I have some fun ideas for it. Keep up with me each week to see what happens to it.

 

an then there is this. I bought it in a red/blue combination last year and haven't sewn it up yet. Now I will two!

The check is on one side and the plaid is on the reverse and is it very light and airy.  Perfect for a summer tunic, maybe. I better get this all used up before next year's Expo.