Curiouser QAL: My fabric choices

So, today's the day for the first block design. It's time to get this show on the road - yee hah! You will find the first (very easy block) over on Mélanie's blog. In the meantime, here are the fabrics that I've chosen, following on from Mélanie's hints and tips last week.

After looking long and hard at my stash, I pulled out this selection of prints that all have an off-white background. I have a really bad habit of just buying pretty fat quarters every time that I go to Millie Moon (my local fabric & haberdashery shop), so most of the fabrics for my quilt come from their lovely selection. I then really struggled with collecting other things to go with them. Mélanie gave me a helping hand, and suggested that I pick out 2 or 3 colours from the selection, and choose contrasting fabrics from that palette.

Looking at the selection, red seemed like an obvious choice:

I had these in my stash (thanks Sarah!), and I supplemented them with a few new fat quarters from The Little Fabric Store (don't forget that Mélanie has given QAL members a discount code if you need some extras).

Then, I discovered I had a good selection of very pretty fabrics with a brown background that worked really well with the cream prints.

And then it became obvious that the final piece of the jigsaw was to be greens...

These are from my stash, and I picked up a few extras from Mélanie's shop, the Little Fabric Store as well.

So over all the selection looks something like this:

And I am chomping at the bit to get going with the sewing now! Please come over and see us in the Flickr group: Curiouser QAL on Flickr. There are discussion threads there, so if you would like help with anything, that's a great place to go to. And Mélanie has a clever gizmo on her post, where you can upload a link to share the block that you sew from her design. So please do use that as well. Then we can all enjoy and support everyone in their progress!

Right, I think it's time to get sewing, isn't it?!