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Sunday Stash #1 and 2014 Bucket list

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Earlier this week I visited a fabric market, which is a giant warehouse full of little fabric stalls and it’s as dangerous as it sounds. I only have one (self imposed) rule when I go to the fabric market, which states that I can only spend as much cash as I bring and I put myself on a budget. You cannot imagine how much trouble I would get into otherwise! Of course my tastes tend to gravitate towards Japanese and American imported fabrics whose prices per meter I wont even write down due to my own denial. 
Here are some of my favorite finds from last week:

Japanese prints:

This fabric is called Stylish Japan and I believe it’s Japanese cotton, it feels kind of like a cotton kimono, so not just a regular quilting cotton. I love all the coordinated colors and I am dying to make a lap quilt or a cot quilt from it once I settle on a pattern that would compliment these colors. (The fabrics are 1 yard each)

 Faux-retro:

I have been really liking muted “instagram filter” colors lately and the faux-retro prints, so this fabric basically jumped out at me from the rack. So hipster! There is no information on the fabric salvage besides that it is made in Taiwan (which actually pleasantly surprised me, I tend to think of Taiwanese fabric as traditional qipao style silks) These are both .5 meters and I don’t yet have any plans for it, other than to take it out of the cabinet and pretend that I’m cool and hip and vintage and not a total dork who has no clue what kids say these days. 

Novelty prints 

This fabric just about killed me, look at that puffer fish! OMG, I had to have it and of course I have no project in mind but it’s PUFFER FISH!! And that little guy in the middle is soo cute! 
Again, not much information on the salvage other than it’s made in Japan and from Cosmo Textiles Ltd. The weight is between quilting cotton and cotton canvas and it’s a meter.
I’m thinking sometime in the near future I need to do a post on the Taiwanese fabric market, it’s fabulous if you know where to go and don’t get lost among the stalls. What’s that, you say? I’m just using this blog post as an excuse to have a free roam of the place? Why I never! 
This does bring me to another point, however. I wanted to use the first week of January to set a sort of Sewing/Blogging Bucket List for 2014 and see how many things I can knock off it during the course of the year and then update this post. These are projects and techniques I would like to accomplish or try out:
1. Complete a serger class on Craftsy that has been sitting in my queue for an embarrassingly long time 
2. Install an invisible zipper
3. Sew a pocket
4. Write a tutorial
5. Have the blog redesigned (maybe by putting fabric allowance towards it)
6. Make 3 quilts (regardless of size)
7. Try Quilt As You Go
8. Reupholster my rocking chair
9. Learn how to use my camera better (yes, this is vague but needs to be remembered)
10. Use automatic buttonhole on my machine
11. Be super awesome – V done!  (Just seeing if you are paying attention) 
12. Try paper piercing
13. Installing a magnetic closure
14. Try my hand at FMQ 
This is enough for now, I might think of something more later and will add to it but I cannot wait to get started, now somebody please tell my kids to cooperate!! 
I’m linking with Fabulous Molli Sparkle’s Sunday Stash over here

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  3. OMG, love the puffer fish, so cute, and the Stylish Japan is beautiful, kind of like a cheater fabric, you could just use that for the quilt and call it done, really pretty.

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  5. If you want to knock off quilt as you go and pockets in one go I can highly recommend the Tinkertote class with Tara on Craftsy, she has lots of great tips and her pockets and zips look great to. I've watched it all the way through twice, I made a test pot holder as per the class and am just about to start on a bag.

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  8. Oh my god, that puffer fish fabric is AMAZING. I generally don't buy a lot of novelty type fabric, but I'd have been all over that if I'd stumbled over it in a fabric shop somewhere 😀

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  9. Wow great fabrics and fantastic list – I probably should write mine down for all to see rather than keeping it in my head! If you need a tutorial for an invisible zip just shout I have a great one I use and results are pretty good every time (in fact need to do one this week)

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  10. Oooh love them all, but the puffer fish are AWESOME. And yes, you can check number 11 off your list 😉 You will love quilt as you go, so great for scrap busting.
    xx

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