Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Fabric Fantasia

Kitties for quilting
A few months after my stroke last year, I made my first visit ever to a quilting shop. I don’t quilt, but someone I care about quilts and I was on the prowl for a happy for her.

The bolts of fabric in vibrant hues and imaginative prints filled the room. They immersed me in a sensory ocean of pure visual pleasure. The felines above posed on newly arrived fabric. The cat print was accompanied by a variety of complementary fabrics in solid colors, all ready for quilters to make into comfy quilted items. For a moment I considered the possibility that a new quilter might be lurking inside me.

No, my skills aren’t in that direction. Instead I just took a picture of those cats and acknowledged an expanding appreciation of the passion quilting engenders in quilters among family and friends.
Fabric felines

8 comments:

  1. Goodness, I NEVER would have guessed these are quilts! I guess they are the kind that you hang on the wall, not use on the bed...

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  2. Ginny, the cats were waiting to be a quilt. Just fabric at the stage pictured. But that shop did have quilts on the wall that were definitely works of art!

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  3. I love this fabric. I am not a quilter either. I don't have the patience for it. I do admire those who do.

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  4. i did not even know there was such a place as a quilt shop. these are beautiful.

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  5. I am not a quilter but an appreciater of the art. What beautiful fabric.

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  6. If I quilt, blood from my fingertips will stain the fabric, so better not. Lol.

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  7. These are beautiful fabrics, but, like you, there's no quilter lurking inside me. Pity.

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  8. I'm afraid no quilter lurks in me either.
    I have to say that those fabrics are gorgeous. I really love the artwork. I can imagine cat lovers going simply crazy over them.

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