I saw it sitting on a shelf in the quilt shop, looking for
all the world like a box of Crayola crayons. It was a set of ten fat quarters
of solid cotton fabric, each one rolled up to look like crayon, stacked together
in a green and yellow box. How could I resist? Even the color names were tempting:
scarlet, macaroni and cheese, dandelion, shamrock, mermaid tail, midnight blue,
periwinkle, purple mountain’s majesty, tickle me pink, and raw sienna. The back
of the box suggested a free downloadable pattern to use all these lovely
solids, but my head was already spinning with all the OTHER possibilities this box
might bring. It’s exactly the same reaction I have to an actual box of crayons.
These stars were only one of many ideas. They’ll be part of a quilt donated to
the Festival of Trees this fall – maybe more than one. I still have LOTS of
fabric left.
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