Happy One Year Anniversary Finn! One year ago today, I followed Bonnie and Tonya into blogger-land. I say Blogger, because there are many other "blog" formats out there. I like Blogger just fine! Well, I've been a pretty good Finn for 6 months. But Betsy was pretty worried about me...no fiber???? You'd think it ranked right up there with my ongoing eyes situation...LOL. She swooped in yesterday and took me away to a small college town near here, River Falls, WI. They have a really neat, quite small quilt shop. She went to pick up stuff for her pool, but made sure it was a day that Tina's was open. I figured it was o.k. to pick up a few FQ's for the upcoming Civil War quilt. You probably know me well enough, by now, to know that I DON'T shop for fabric with a specific quilt in mind. That's a whole new ball game for me..*G* I have things that will work in my stash, but of course, I need more. It is a sampler, and that means LOTS of fabrics..*VBS* The ones above are quarter yards, and the tea dyed type small calico is a yard cut. I don't expect to keep the background the same in all my blocks, but in a few, to tie things together. I don't shop by "names" as a rule, and was quite pleased this morning to see that several of them do say something referring to "old". The fabrics below are ones that I want, but they don't look good next to the ones above..LOL And it was our lucky day! Tina's FQ's were .75 each and several of the fabrics were on sale at $2- and $3.50 a yard...amazing! We were both good and only bought a reasonable amount. And even tho some were cut from the bolt(the two greens and the brown($8.50 a yd) she wrote them down as .75 a quarter yard,like the FQ sale. She's a great gal!!! I didn't damage my diet too much..*S*