Sunday Stash: Very cool threads!

What an exciting weekend it's been!  First Aurifil threads featured my Flying Geese cushion cover on facebook and twitter, then, if that wasn't enough! Pink Castle Fabrics featured my Triangle Quilt on both their blog and Facebook as their very first feature.  What a total buzz!  I am very proud, I love quilting, I love playing with colour and thread and fabric.  I love that being creative is part of me, something I can share with my children and with so many wonderful people online.  Receiving positive feedback is just the cherry on top of the pie!  Thank you for your support :)

In the last twelve months I have discovered Flickr, pinterest, twitter (you can find me @prettybobbins), and finally today I signed up for Instagram.  I really have no idea what I'm doing but I figure its just more opportunities to drool over quilt candy :)  Please share any tips or hints that you have and feel free to comment below with your name/linky/thingy so I can find you and follow you :)

Today I have been having a heap of fun quilting Mr 6's Rainbow I Spy quilt.  I'm so excited with how it is coming together!  A few months back I invested in a rainbow of Aurifil thread from Kate Quilts in preparation for this project.

Can I tell you how exciting it is to be finally matching the threads to the rainbow border and getting my quilt on?  Seriously cool!  (If you're a total quilt dork that is...)

More recently I purchased two large 5,000m cones of Aurifil thread, 2024 in both 40 and 50wt from Want it, Need it, Quilt.  I had a whole heap of trouble with my tension and it soon became obvious that I needed a large cone stand.  Would you believe it, that the one sewing shop here in Nouméa had ONE stand left?  At approximately $8 I snapped up that baby (remember that this is a small island and everything costs a premium) and was overjoyed to try it out.  Et voila!  Tension issues no more :D

Have you made any additions to your stash this week?  Do you enjoy matching threads to fabrics and seeing it all come together? (Who am I kidding?  Of course you do!)

I'm linking up with Sunday Stash hosting by the lovely Fiona at Finding Fifth.

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