Vintage windows...
...and yummy fabric.
My mom sent me a link to a craigslist ad selling 3 vintage wooden windows for $5 because she knew I was wanting one for our powder room. It sounded too good to be true but I called and they still had them so off I went this past Friday afternoon to pick them up. I got there, saw the windows, and nearly squealed in delight right in front of the guy selling them. LOL It was a graphics shop that evidently does photo shoots with props and they had used the windows for one of their shoots and no longer needed them. As I was loading them up a woman walked by and told me I was getting a deal (ummm, yeah, I know!) because she was the one who had bought the windows for their photo shoot and paid $65 alone just for the diamond pane window. I have no idea why the other guy sold them so cheap on craigslist other than it was work-related and he had no personal interest vested in them. Oh well. Whatever the case I got the deal of a lifetime! I'm hanging one of the regular windows in our powder room to do my bird artwork with and then need to find a place for the cool diamond pane one. I'm giving the second regular one to my mom for finding me the deal. :) I love love LOVE old windows, and I especially love a good AWESOME deal on them. ;)
Now the fabric... I'm starting my first quilt class tomorrow with my mom. :) This past Saturday we went up to the quilt shop to purchase our fabric for the class. It was a bit intimidating at first. Bolts and bolts of yummy fabric lined up and I had to pick? I was a bit worried about how to pick fabrics and put them together and which ones to use for what areas of the quilt pattern. But once I picked out my favorite pattern (the bottom one in the stack in the photo above) I got in my groove and started selecting coordinating fabrics and deciding where in the quilt pattern I wanted them. We're making a throw quilt, and I'm so excited to get started! It's bittersweet to be taking this class. My Nanny was a BIG quilter and it hasn't been until lately, a few years after she passed, that I started getting interested in it. I would love to be quilting with her now. But I have my mom, who inherited all of Nanny's sewing stuff after she passed and started quilting herself, to share this new hobby with. And it's cool that we'll be taking the class at Quilt Country, my Nanny's home away from home. To be in that shop, quilting, and surrounded by the ladies she quilted with and was friends with... it'll be like having her there with me. :)
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