Final Advent Update

 Time to catch up on the Advent FQ "calendar" goodies from Global Fiber Shop. I haven't posted about them since the middle of last month. I love all the great patterns in these fabrics. But I especially love the red/purple woven with the great texture.

The orange one in the right bottom corner is just a lovely shade and the pattern is terrific.

I like this little notepad, it's so pretty, and it makes me want to make that block. Also, "Let It Sew" is super clever and I haven't seen that.

I really love these two, especially together. Soft and peaceful but still interesting.

Oooh two FQs on the 25th! I love that twelve days of Christmas print, so cute.

There they are all stacked up together. I think these would all work together well in a scrappy sort of looking quilt. There are only a couple that might need to be removed to really work. Would I have picked out all  100% of these fabrics? No, definitely not. There are many that I would have chosen, but I do like that they feel cohesive overall which is pretty tough to achieve with this variation in patterns and colors. The main thing was to give myself (and friend Jaye too) a little surprise present to open up every day. 

So, adding all 34 of these FQs into my fabric tracker for 2025 I ended up with these totals: 

• 103.3 yards bought/brought in 
• 71.3 yards used in projects/quilts 
• for a net of 32 yards

As I haven't tracked my fabric before I don't know if that's a lot or a little for me, so I'll keep tracking this year and find out.

More Advent FQ's

 

My right wrist is really hurting, I think I strained it while I was traveling. That means that I'm taking a few days off of sewing activities to rest it up. So here's the most recent Advent FQ's up to the 11th, and some goodies that have come along in the envelopes as well.

Here's all of them so far, stacked up together. Would I have chosen these fabrics? Definitely some of them, but overall I like the choices so far. When you look at them together, the color palette and variety of prints work. I think they'll end up making a good quilt next year.

Advent Adventure

 

I saw a few quilt-related advent calendar type things for sale this year, but I decided to buy myself a birthday present and try out the one from Global Fiber Shop.

All those intriguing polka-dot envelopes filled with FQs!

First things first. A really nice print!

Ooh this one is pretty too.

Wait, another pretty print and a notion was included too! So far, so good on the fabric picks, all will work for me.