quiltingwifechick

Hello! When a designer you like releases a new fabric line, does anyone buy the large stack of 40 fat quarters & charms packs, yardage & such?? I love the new line, Mirabelle, by Fig Tree Quilts & it would coordinate so nice with my living room & bedroom when I re-do it this Spring. I have just ever bought fabric online & don't know about buying yardage for borders, binding, etc. My LQS is about 40 minutes away & not sure she will have this. She seldom carries this line. Just wondering. Thanks!!

Mdegenhart

I love the big fat quarter packs. Have you looked to see if they released a fat quarter pattern to go with the fabric?

Green Fairy has the bundle also for a better price & she has free shipping too.

http://greenfairyquilts.com/catalog.php?item=3663

quiltingwifechick

Thanks so much!! I am still not sure, but yes, love the better price & free S&H !!

Mdegenhart

I made this with a big fat quarter bundle

quiltingwifechick

That is really great quilt - nice!! Very visual & the colors are vibrant. Thanks for sharing.

gale

That is gorgeous. I love to buy fat quarter bundles. I don't buy a lot of other precuts anymore. I hate the zigzag edges with a passion.

Jackie Spencer

I love fat quarter bundles, have bought bunches of them! There are so many patterns for fat quarters, for beginners and those who have been quilting for a long time.

stillclock

i recently made a quilt using 2 fat quarter bundles and i am unlikely to do so again.

it was my fault really - for not checking the fabric line before i bought them. but when i got them home and opened them up, they had a LOT more pink in the prints than the stack suggested. i mean a LOT.

it would have been great to have the variety of prints for a scrappy quilt, but a fat quarter of the fabric you like the best just isn't very much.

i much prefer to coordinate and choose off the bolt. lesson learned!

here it is. you can't see what i am talking about really, but the white, greens and yellows were all purchased separately, as was that blue bubble fabric which really doesn't work as well as i had hoped. and because the person i am making this for doesn't like pink, i had to think of ways to minimize it every turn.

(this thread is not about me and i am sorry for highjacking it, but is a cautionary tale!)



aileen

tessagin

I would call your LQS before making the trip. Chances are if she seldom carries this line she probably won't have it. Call and ask first. If she doesn't have it then order on line.

charlottequilts

I notice, too, in the Hancock's catalog that FQ packs are sometimes, at least, listed as having a certain number of FQ but not which ones. I thought that was weird. FQ Shop shows the packs as squares and also yardage, but their colors can be really off. (nice folks to order from, but I've had several strange surprises) So to have the thing actually in your hand and still be fooled by its appearance must have been very irritating.

That said, the Fig Tree colorways seem pretty predictable.

Hugs,
Charlotte