I bought this fabric sometime in the past, but can’t figure out when or where. I thought it was at PIQF 2006, but it appears in Thoughts on Dots before that, so it had to be some earlier. I looked all through the first half of 2006 and PIQF 2005 to no avail. I gave up. It didn’t matter anyway.
There is a point, in case you thought I wasn’t getting to it, and the point is that when I bought this, I was with TFQ and we only bought a quarter yard, then we split it, which left me with an eighth of a yard. I never know what fabrics will spark my interest, but something about this one did as I used it for Thoughts on Dots and now on the Pineapple. When I was close to cutting the last strip off for the Pineapple, I began to think I needed more of it. I looked everywhere – online, in shops, at shows. No luck. The more I didn’t find it the more desperate I became. This one fabric took on a holy grail sort of mindset for me.
- Yes, I should use my fabrics right away so I can see what I like and get more of it before it goes out of print.
- Yes, there is always more fabric.
- Yes, I should not make myself crazy over one fabric.
- Yes, I know this happened once before THIS year and JulieZS saved me with the Flea Market Fancy blue.
I did anyway.
TFQ sent me her eighth yard earlier this week, thus the gorgeous picture at the top of the screen and it put the bug for this fabric back in my ear. Wednesday night, in between preparing the feast, I went online and mindlessly put “timeless treasures” basix blue dots into a search engine and was rewarded with an eBay store, Elisabeth’s Barn Shoppe, that had 13 half yards of the fabric (why she counts half yards as one, I don’t know). I couldn’t believe my luck! I bought a yard. I wondered if I should buy more or buy it all, but I bought just a yard.
One quest complete. Unless I decide to buy more.