Fern-y goodness...

I've been waiting a while for this package from fabric.com -- the day after I placed my order, a winter storm hit the south and ground everything to a halt, delaying shipping for over a week. But it's finally here, and I'm more excited about this than I am about the 55 degrees and sun outside. I haven't bought fabric in close to a year, and I have plans for these!

I know, I know, the goal for 2015 was to rid my house of fabric, and when my very good friend announced her first grandbaby was on the way I had a great design in mind for a quilt made entirely from my stash, honest -- but when she arrived last month, they named her Fern (after the little girl in Charlotte's Web), and let's face it, a quilt for Baby Fern deserves, well, ferny-fabric. I couldn't NOT look for some.

Kaffe Fassett's "Collective Ferns" (grey) popped up at the top of my search results. Fern's parents' college colors are purple and gold. It was kismet.

I got Kona solids (Coal, Medium Gray, Orchid and Lemon) to coordinate, and they couldn't be more on the money. I'll pull some more purples and yellows from the stash tonight and pile them together so I can look at them (and pet them, and restack them, and add and subtract things) for the next couple days. I had a design in my head, but when I get everything together, the fabric might have other ideas.