"No Sweat Sweatshirt"

Here are the pictures I talked about of one of the jackets Martha brought with her this weekend for the class she's going to teach next month. They are very cool, and one of them uses lots of the fabrics from one of my favorite groups in the past few months - April Cornell's "Decadent Victorian" from Moda Fabrics. Martha has a way to use the sweatshirt as a canvas for piecing. I guess you take an ordinary sweatshirt apart, create a front opening, embellish it with fabric and then put it back together to get a fantastic jacket! She's one talented lady! The class is scheduled for Saturday, February 23rd and still has a few openings.

What's happening at Fab-Etc these days? Of course, the Anniversary Sale is happening this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And Tracey and I will be there until 8:00 Thursday night to make it more convenient for those of you who can't make it in during the day! I keep looking at the weather forecast and trying to find the humor in the fact that it looks like it might snow again this year. Last year it was a real Northeaster for the sale - 40 mph winds, temps around 20 degrees and about 6" of ice and snow in the parking lot! Oh well....if it snows, it snows - at least we'll be inside with all of that fabric to play with! Hope you can make it in for the sale.

I've been doing the January "try to clean things up and organize" routine. Got through a few boxes of "clutter" today - those ones that we say, "The class starts in an hour, we've got to get rid of this stuff. I know, throw it in this box!" Well, pretty soon, I've got these clutter boxes stacked up 6 deep and can't find anything I'm looking for! I did manage to sort through enough of them to find some important things - including the "Still Shopping" signs I made for our last sale - hooray! Now, I just need to find the time to slip some batting inside and add a backing to them!

Jan and I collaborated today on a cute fabric postcard panel we have for Valentine's Day. The postcards came out wonderfully, thanks to Jan! Pictures soon!

Be thinking hard now....no snow until after the sale - okay?