Fondle

 After reading Chookie's post about her trip to Libertyville and at the end finding myself green with envy I thought I would look to see what I've got stashed and what I've done with mine (it was just an excuse to fondle my Liberty of London fabrics.)

I'm one of those that doesn't want to use something that's a favorite because, well, if I use it, it will be gone. Our first trip to England was a couple of years before covid and I bought just a little of the Liberty fabric.  And I didn't want to use it because it had to be used for something special and I didn't want to waste a single thread. So it sat.

Then we went back to the Liberty of London store during each of our four trips and I bought a little more.  Then I found a place here in Michigan that sold it only through mail order.  Then JoAnn's started selling it.  Finally, I had a stash. 

The circle quilt was just finished a couple of weeks ago, at first I didn't dare start something like this because I would have waste from cutting circles.   But the flying geese did not.  I love flying geese and I like the peasant look of just lining up four of them and putting them together in rows.  That four at a time way of cutting flying geese is a favorite.

 No rhyme or reason to placement.  I don't have a design wall or curtain nor the wall space to put one so I just wing it.  

Like here.  This was my first peasant look flying geese quilt and LOVED it.  It was so much fun finding quirky put togethers from my stash, the only thing I was concerned about was strong contrasts. Everything else was a free for all. This is a favorite.

And this one.  Honestly?  I don 't even remember making this top.  It was folded up in a basket and when I unfolded it thinking "what's this?" I was very surprised.  I love it.  I must have made it after the peasant one above because it really was fun and a stash buster for sure. I bought some batting and am trying to find enough in the stash for a backing.

But back to Liberty. 

I gathered all my Liberties from the different pouches they were stored in and now I know I have lots. More than I thought and enough to do something with.

This last visit to England in January I had soft colors in mind because I think I'm going to stick to the 'don't waste a single thread' philosophy and do simple squares, like a charm quilt but not a charm. The squares will be bigger than charm.

These are the bigger pieces, truly fondle worthy, and there is a pouch with small bits and bobs that came from Friend Barb and leftovers from my projects.

I felt better after seeing what's here because if I'd been to the Liberty Lollapalooza that Chooky was at I'd probably have ended up in a corner sucking my thumb from envy, lack of money to buy it all and the realization of how old I am and big plans have to be carefully made.