Shopping!

The quilt I currently have on our bed (this one) is almost seven years old and showing its age; the fabric is beginning to split. That’s doubly sad, since I don’t really enjoy making enormous quilts. 😉 However, I’ve wanted to make a Winding Ways quilt for some time, so I’m going to take advantage of the fact that we need a new quilt for our bed to make that pattern.

I took my Christmas gift cards to the quilt shop today, sternly telling myself not to go in with any preconceived ideas about colors, since I didn’t want to shop anywhere but where I could use my gift cards. It’s a good thing I’d decided that, too, because the things I’d sort of considered in the back of my mind just weren’t available today — at least, not in the quantity I needed. I’d sort of thought about either some oriental prints (most were too large to show well in this pattern) or possibly pink and brown (my husband might have been a bit unhappy about that, though, so it’s a good thing there weren’t any that really appealed to me ). Batiks, which I really like, just didn’t seem right for what I have in mind, either.

However, I saw a set of lovely Moda prints that sort of jumped into my arms. 😉 Then it just remained to find some gold-ish beiges to go with them, and this is what I ended up with: