Uncharted Territory

My desperate fabric search and the comments I received sent me off into uncharted territory: the realm of online fabric shopping.

It's going to be my downfall. Not only did I already have an acknowledged addition to fabric shopping in person, now I can also spend wads of money online, boohoo!!

I managed to place orders totalling just over 100$US today. This is *NOT GOOD*!

I admit that I'm partly or madly in love with all the fabrics, but still, boohoo. I'll get over it once the packages start arriving! :)

Here are some sneak peaks from the online photos:

I made quite a bit of progress on the character quilt fabric collection and now have:

dancing couple, cheese, SCUBA diving, windmills and hieroglyphs (he used to be fascinated by ancient Egyptians)


I also found book fabric, not exactly what I wanted, but close enough:


The cheese fabric in particular has quite a story attached. I got a hint on my last post to search quiltshops.com for fabrics. That's a neat site, easy to search. However, the one fabric I found with cheese on it wasn't quite what I wanted


and I couldn't get enough other fabric together to make it worth the order anyway. So I started another Google search and come up with a thread on a discussion forum where someone else, *just last month* was looking for cheese fabric. One fabric that was suggested to her was perfect and I checked the link, but it's out of stock.


I contacted the vendor and it's out of print. Next I started a search on eBay and found the red background cheese fabric again, but also available on cream background. I contacted the vendor, and while I waited for a response, I found another site that sells fat quarters, amongst them the cheese on cream background. Bingo. The final sign that this was the store to buy at was that I found ballroom-dancing-couple fabric like I had imagined it! Yippie yeah!

And actually, now that I have both fabrics on this post, I think they're the same... the colour/quality on the images is so different, I thought I had a different fabric entirely. Double yippie yeah!


... and while I searched for the character quilt fabrics, I came across all these extremely cute prints, sigh. Aren't they adorable? I want to make some baby quilts like the ones by Alissa.


The fish are flanelette, everything else is 100% cotton. The owls and crows are my two favourites, I think.
Looking at these prints now, I can easily forget how much I spent (most of it was the cost for shipping internationally, anyway...).