I was at my local tonight (50% off - God bless January sales!) and picked up some lovelies.

These are Alexander Henry's Island Girls, - as the sharper eyed among you may remember, I collect vintage pin up girls (I have probably 50 more than are pictured here); so these lovelies were completely irresistable to me. I also love the Tiki island-like Aloha girls although they're a bit more risque - so I could think of even fewer appliations than these.  I want to get the Heavy Equipment boys version too.

And then, as I was wandering through the store, I came across a lovely print.  Although I'm not (as you know) much of a print girl, something about this fabric really struck me, and I was pretty sure I had coordinates in my stash - and indeed I did:


And then, while I was there, I wondered if they had a fabric that I fell in love with a few months ago:



Also by Alexander Henry, this one's called Calabash.  At the time, I didn't know what I would do with it, but at 50% off, why not?  :)

On an unrelated note - I noticed the last couple of weeks my followers list has gone through a lot of changes - up a couple, down a couple every couple of days.  Please bear with me as I work through this new approach to my quilting, and new way of blogging.  But if you feel you're looking for something else - thanks for reading along with me thus far, and much luck and happiness in your future quilting adventures.

To those of you who are new - thanks for joining me!  Looking forward to getting to know you.  :)