I have decided to join the challenge posted by Vicky at LA Quilter— No Fabric Purchases for the Month of August. (Thanks to Kim at A Peach in Stitches for designing this very cute logo / button to commemorate this challenge).

I feel confident that I can accept this challenge because there are exceptions that will allow us to still make a fabric purchases:
– Fabric purchased at quilt shows doesn’t count.
– Fabric purchased as a souvenir while on vacation doesn’t count.
– Fabric purchased as an emergency doesn’t count – If you are trying to finish up a quilt in August and you run short of something you desperately need, this is an emergency.

Vicky also included allowing Blocks of the Month. I don’t currently subscribe to any BOMs so I won’t have a need to exercise this option.

Here’s to one month of no new fabric purchases!

I tried to add the same sort of scrappy border to my Double 4 Patch that Lucy added to her quilt. However, I don’t seem to have achieved the same effect. My daughter nixed the bright orange fabric on the lower right side. My husband wanted to know “What that thing was that was attached to the quilt.” This comment was followed by, “Its coming off, isn’t it?”. I auditioned several of the other fabrics that I have in my stash and………………….
………..this is the one that finally received approval from my husband. It has brown stars on a beige background–a little boring if you ask me, but probably better suited to this quilt than the scrap pieces I had picked out.
I have two chunks of this fabric. I will have to do some piecing to get the borders long enough, but this will end up a scrap quilt made entirely out of my stash.