Presents from my mailman 10/22

I have received several lovely, fabricalicious packages in the past week or so. I. Love. Magical mystery fabric packages. I mean seriously, is there anything more wonderful than receiving fabric in the mail? Okay, maybe shoes. But still. I ordered all of this fabric MONTHS ago from various co-ops...and then forgot about it. Then they just appear on my doorstop, and it is a wonderfully joyful thing.

First up are some Alexander Henry quilting cottons. These are all 2 yard cuts of Fairy Wing Park. It's all wintery girls, cats, & dogs roller skating around a magical park. The coordinates are an all over bird print from the main print's trees. I also ordered a couple of the calico flower prints featured in the girls' dresses, but those ones got back ordered, so bummer. Anyway, the print is on a much larger scale than I realized, so other than maybe one Euro-type jumper (Farbenmix Feliz?) for DD, I'm a little stumped as to what I'm going to do with these. In the meantime, I looooove them!


Next are a few prints from what might be one of my favorite fabric collections ever. This is Fairytale Princess, also from Alexander Henry. I had originally intended these some for some type of sassy Euro apparel for DD, but now I am not so sure. I need to find a project that lets me use the items for a longer time than one size/season. I really hate to quilt or sew any type of home item, but I might have to buckle down. Or I could just frame them as prints & hang them up.


I mean seriously, check out these hilarious fairytale depictions and the freaking awesome Cinderella shoe?? So fabulous!


These are a few prints from Girly Girl by Art Gallery Fabrics. The quality on these prints is just wonderful. The blurb on the selvedge states "premium cotton", and they really are. All three of them came out of the wash much less wrinkled than my other fabrics. I believe the weave uses long-staple cotton fibers, which wrinkle less. They have a nice, light hand. Perfect for apparel for me. :)


Lastly, I got some nice knit prints from Mis-T-V-Us. I am super happy with the colors and quality of the top four, but the lower two weren't quite what I thought when I saw the online pics. I mean, they are very, very nice quality and all, just not the colors that I thought I was going to get. The orange is very bright. No worries though, sometimes fabric takes a little time to grow on and inspire me. The flower print is a nice french terry & would go well with some of the brown ribbing that I have a ton of, so I am thinking it might make a cute Fall-ish hoodie dress for my DD.


That's all...for now (really, does the fabric ever stop? No, it doesn't).