Liberty Crazy

Over the last few weeks I have been following the Liberty Scrap Challenge on a wonderful blog called a cuppa and a catch up.  There have been amazing and gorgeous projects using Liberty fabrics, which lets face it are the ultimate in fabric gorgeousness!

I have a small stash of Liberty Lawn that I have in my super secret stash - I know it is turning into an obsession..  But I had also seen the Bloomsbury Collection of Liberty fabrics for quilters. They had caught my eye, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to buy some...

M is for Make had a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale so I thought I would spend a few pennies on a selection of the fabric from the collection. They have a selection of fabrics from the C colourway, which is bright pinks, which I quite fancied.

I just wasn't prepared for how wonderful the colours are. They are so vibrant and lush that I just keep stroking them!

M is for Make has quite a few of the fabrics from the colour way, but I realised that I NEEDED the whole range from that colourway.

I now have them washed and ironed... they are calling to me, but I feel kinda frightened to even start to think about using them... they are just too pretty to get the designs wrong...

Have you ever been too frightened to cut up some fabric? How did you get past it?

Neglecting fabric...

Yesterday evening whilst the computer churned out paperwork for my teaching today I decided to have a looking through all the fabric resting on my top shelf.. you know my secret stash...

I had looked in there last week whilst trying to find backing for the advent calendar I bought from Blueberry Park. I am quilting the calender so I wanted a suitable backing - I found 2 metres of red dots from Tanya Whelan!

2 whole metres that I had squirrelled away and totally forgotten about!

So that got me to thinking, what else do I have hidden away?

Well, some solids in blues, greens and browns... oh and a heap of white...

There are lots of Tanya Whelan pink fabrics that I have been collecting scraps of for ages.

I have a modest collection of Sweetwater fabrics that I treasure, but how to use them hasn't come to me yet...

I have my growing collection of Flea Market Fancy Legacy and a heap of Katherine's Wheel by Nel Whatmore....

I have some Children at Play left over from making this quilt earlier this year:

And scraps from this gorgeous quilt:

All this yummy fabric has been hiding, hidden by me for projects to come...

Part of me worries I will never use the fabric... it will sit there hidden from the light, not being seen by anyone except me when I get the basket down...

In true fabric addict style, I will never stop adding to my collection. I will always hoard beautiful pieces of fabric!

And one night I will be hit by an idea and the fabric will be bought down and brought to life in a gorgeous new quilt!

Which fabrics have you got hidden away?