Cut cut cut...

Who ever said that cutting your fabric for a new quilt was fast... was lying.

It's taking me forever to get all the pieces laid out and cut to exactly 0.5cm seam allowance. Driving me nuts!!!

Next stop... cutting.

Thankfully I am a subscriber to the "measure twice, cut once" school, because while waiting for my iron to be donated from a friend, I think I have measured my fabric 8 times.

I am on the fence of whether I am going to buy a sewing machine or not. I kind of want to buy the cutest Hello Kitty machine that is actually not badly priced at around 14,000 yen ($160 Canadian)

I know I mentioned in a previous post that my room is incredibly small, but I really want to start making my own things like skirts and halloween costumes. If I have my own sewing machine and I understand how to use it, I should be able to do it!

Fabric purchased!

Well, I headed to Fabric Street today (yeay! Pay day!). I went with the idea in mind of getting six solid colors and 6 patterns to make the pieces out of, but I was blown away by the number of prints they had! The store I went to is called Tomato and it has an entire floor of pre-cut fabric laid out very conveniently by it's relative color. I was thrown for a bit of a loop. I was kind of hoping that a magic fairy would come along and show me which fabrics to buy.

After looking around for around an hour in awe of all the wonderful fabrics and switching my palette two or three times, I struck the proverbial goldmine. Thanks to Atelier and Akiko by Lecien I found the most beautiful rich hued polka dot fabric. I took each of the 7 (remember, I only needed 6) and then headed to the solids wagon. I found a stunning, slightly tie-dyed fabric to match each of the 7. I really couldn't decide on the 6th color so I took them all.

Once I got them back to the office and had a real look at them, I decided that the bright orange kind of threw off the feel, so I axed it. It's a gorgeous color and halloween is just around the corner, so I will probably make a bib necklace or a hair tie with it.

I am very excited with the color and ever more excited to start cutting it up. I have decided NOT to pre-wash the fabric as it looks to be fraying a lot already and I don't want to end up with a washing machine full of threads (albeit gorgeously colored threads!), and it doesn't seem to be bleeding. I took a piece of advice from a forum that I was reading and took a q-tip and dipped it in hot water and rubbed it on the fabric. Even the dark blue seemed ok.

Ready to quilt!