Joy In The Journey

My dear friend, A, and I have been working on our "Glamping" quilts.  She purchased the fabrics about two years ago and we are finally getting them done.  We did our entire quilt tops in January, then of course, came the part of making the backings.  Procrastination.  They are both, currently, at the long-arm quilter's place for amazing quilting.  

I had purchased a couple fabrics at the local quilt shop to go with what A had provided, which included a contrasting fabric from Riley Blake's 'Joy in the Journey' fabric line.  

It is charcoal with flowers, and I had saved enough for both of our bindings.  Meanwhile, Marsha whipped up a nine-patch quilt and needed an outer border, and the charcoal with flowers fabric was perfect.  I did not want to short-change A and I of our binding material, so I went to the quilt shop and naturally they were out.  Luckily, I was able to order more from Fabric.com, so Marsha was able to finish her quilt.  [Click on "nine-patch", above, to view Marsha's Nine-Patch Madness quilt.]

Let's discuss looking for fabric at Fabric.com.  All our glamping fabrics are from Riley Blake, so while searching for the charcoal with flowers fabric, I stumbled onto some amazing got-to-have-it Kewpie fabric (from Riley Blake).  Three Kewpie fabrics to be exact, so my additional three fabrics arrived with the Joy in the Journey charcoal with flowers fabric.  I needed to make something with the Kewpie fabric right away.  I made a wall-hanging for my dear friend, A.  I used some of the charcoal with flowers on the inner border of the wall-hanging.  That stuff is amazing!  It just goes with everything!  Yes, I still have enough for our bindings.  Really, I do.

click on the photo to see the details and Kewpie Dolls closer up