Unplanned Fabric Shopping

What a wonderful opportunity! I took a negative and turned it into a positive yesterday after school. Because of the accident which totalled Erin's car, she was to get her new car from Smitty's this morning. This meant that she could turn in her loaner car to Enterprise after work yesterday, thus earning her extra $$ from the insurance company. This required, though, a willing parent to drive up to Columbus to get her. So the bad ( Erin's car being wrecked) resulted in a good! Because I just left from school at around 3pm, I would be getting to Columbus way earlier than I needed to, so I decided to drive out East Broad Street to Quilt Beginnings. I didn't even decide to do this until I was several miles up Route 104.

Totally spur of the moment!

I was excited to do this as I equate Quilt Beginnings as a shop that specializes in very bright fabrics as opposed to the darker reproduction fabrics that I normally buy. Since I have been in a Kaffe Fassett mood lately, I knew they would have some of his that I'd been unable to find on my other fabric outings.

And I was not disappointed! They had the loveliest array of larger prints - those bold flowery, viney and leafy prints in amazing colors. Scrumptious. Absolutely scrumptious! The cost was a bit on the high side, but I just pretended not to care. I bought 1/2 yards of about 10 or 12 different fabrics. What a delightful treat. I also bought a new cutting mat and an 18-6 (or thereabouts) cutting ruler. My grand total was not as high as I expected, so even though I really probably didn't need to shop for any of this stuff right now, I was pleased to have had the opportunity to shop to my heart's content. Very, very satisfying.