More quilting news...

Last Saturday I dragged Cameron and Ruby to the quilting store in Cordova Bay, on the hunt for background fabric for his quilt.  We arrived at 3:50 pm and the door was locked, even though it said they were open until 5:30 pm.... After a few minutes of thinking to myself "Wha??" I ended up banging on the door to get the woman's attention (who was clearly ignoring me).  She finally let me in after realizing that she had the wrong time on her clock... she had closed up the till and was heading out the back door when we arrived! Seriously??  Then she proceeded to ignore me again while she re-opened the till.  Um, hello?  Can we get some help here?  It was basically a waste of time for both of us because they had absolutely nothing in the store that worked for me.  Again.  I'm so done with them.  I tried to "support the locals" but this isn't the first time I've had issues with this store.  The last time I went there, another employee miscalculated how much fabric I needed so I had to go back the next day.

So when I was at the quilting show last month, I realized Victoria has a quilting store that I had never heard of before.  So a couple of days ago I thought I would check them out.  They are located in an industrial area, in an odd building which shares a parking lot with the gravel yard. So there are big dump trucks coming and going and you have to get out of their way... they stop for no-one.  So anyway, I was completely caught off guard and wasn't expecting what I saw when I walked in the door... QUILTER'S HEAVEN!!!  Oh. My. Word.  Bolts and bolts of fabric everywhere, stuffed wherever there was room, like a warehouse.  A small warehouse but it was awesome!  It reminded me of Mook Fabrics in Medicine Hat - no frills, nothing fancy, but scads and scads of gorgeous fabrics!!  And helpful staff who actually know what they are talking about.  Imagine that!!  I was so happy.  Sigh.

I found my background fabric... woot woot!  And I changed my design for Cameron's quilt because the other idea was going to be too finnicky and tedious.  So the block when from this:

To this:

I think it looks much better.. it's a more defined pattern (not as random as the first one) and it's way easier too, which is a bonus.  Also, I was lucky to find a pattern that uses 4 strips of fabrics sewn together, which is what I had already started doing for the original pattern.  Yay!!

Now, if I could only bring my sewing machine on our road trip, I could get this quilt done lickety-split!!