Two days ago for about three hours I started to catch up on my BOMs. Last year I tried 9, and finished 3, this year I'm in 5 and I just signed up for another one from Bellingham, across the border. I have to pick up the package every month, across the border. Sometimes I think I'm crazy!!! But it was such a lovely pattern (tea time - I love drinking tea;) and my safety guard - my best friend Gro - didn't stop me from buying into the pattern. Gro and I were on a "Row by Row Experience" hop - collecting rows from BC and down by the border in Washington, and it was her job to make sure that I don't buy anything but the rows (I'm a recovering Fabric-aholic like most of us). But with a $2 price on material for backing from A Great Notion in Abbottsford and then Fabric-Etc in Bellingham, I didn't stand a chance.
By the way, if you are in BC, you have GOT TO pick up the row at Laura's Fashion Fabrics at 1552 Johnston Road in White Rock - 604-531-3293
or the one at Fabric Notion (sorry no picture but it has the dogwood tree - BC's flower, a river with fish in it and bears going for the fish from the Fraser River - very BC) at 101 - 32526 George Ferguson Way in Abbotsford.
Both well worth the rides.
Here are two I HAVE completed - one from Tom's Sewing in Surrey, BC and the other is from downtown Seattle - a great shop right in PIke's market. They have many patterns similar to this native art work.
Another picture - a better one of Tom's.
By the way, if you are in BC, you have GOT TO pick up the row at Laura's Fashion Fabrics at 1552 Johnston Road in White Rock - 604-531-3293
or the one at Fabric Notion (sorry no picture but it has the dogwood tree - BC's flower, a river with fish in it and bears going for the fish from the Fraser River - very BC) at 101 - 32526 George Ferguson Way in Abbotsford.
Both well worth the rides.
Here are two I HAVE completed - one from Tom's Sewing in Surrey, BC and the other is from downtown Seattle - a great shop right in PIke's market. They have many patterns similar to this native art work.
Another picture - a better one of Tom's.
Sorry about the quality of the shot, but it shows how cute it is. Loved it at first glance.
I have many different rows now and going off today to get more Canadian rows. The idea is to make a quilt with the Washington rows and the 3 Arizona rows I picked up while on holidays. I want to make a queen size quilt which means 3 rows across (each row is approximately 9" by 36") and at least 8 down, maybe 7 if I put the word Washington on the quilt in one section and Arizona on the other. We'll see after the rows are completed and I can play and place them. So many beautiful rows, I'll keep you posted, while I complete each one.
Off to 5 more in 2 hours here in the lower mainland. Take care.
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