Tangerine Shopping

I got to have a little field trip this week with friends to a new-to-me quilt store, Quilts & Things. Definitely not as close as my LQS, but it was super fun to get to visit with friends while checking out new fabrics. I got two fabrics from Art Gallery Fabrics studio, in the Tangerine line to make myself a summer top. I really love tangerines. The darker one, which is an odd green-grey-blue will be the main part and the lighter tangerine fabric will be the contrast parts.

I also picked up this intriguing sort of origami-ish folded bag pattern. It's very clever and I'm going to try it out at Sew Day on Saturday.

Next door was an enormous Dollar Tree, where I only found two things to buy, some rather oddly colored alphabet beads and some craft cubes. Nothing in particular planned for these two.

And then when I returned back home I had a package from Feral Notions with all the above fun and sparkly goodies. And one from Amazon with a new ironing board cover that is new but not terribly sparkly. The window rainbow maker went up in the top of my studio window, instantly delighting the studio assistants with new colorful things that aren't really there to chase around.

A thread cutter for cutting chain piecing that uses an old rotary cutting blade between the two big stars. It went together very easily and safely. And it made me change my rotary blade out.

It works very well and is very cheery as well as safe.

And also a new ruler that has embedded confetti and laser cut printed markings. Packaged up with those clear grippy dots which makes it very stable. 2.5"x10" is a good handy size, that is easy to use.