Suburban Belle

I’ve seen these floating around the interwebs for quite awhile now, and I’ve been wanting to make some from the first time I saw them. I finally got around to it the last few days. Love, love, love how these turned out.

For the larger one, I cut out letters with my new-to-me Cricut (gifted to me by the awesome cousin Elena again!). I used directions I found on the Cricut message board to cut fabric. It worked pretty well…would have worked better on chunkier letters, probably, but they were usable, for sure. I hand-stitched the individual triangles together and added buttons, rick rack, and tulle for dimension. Each triangle is a sandwich of two pieces of vintage cotton woven with a layer of Warm and Natural batting in the middle.

For the smaller one, each triangle is a layer of vintage cotton woven backed with Warm & Natural. I put eyelets in each top corner to thread rick rack through for hanging.

My aunt called me today and told me she was on a way to a sale that said they had fabric so she was going to check it out for me.

She called me back a bit later and started asking me questions about what I might want. The sale was in a barn and it was packed. It started this morning and they had already sold about half of what was there when they started. My aunt ended up buying so much that she filled up the back of her van to the ceiling.

Apparently this old lady was a quilter (and obviously a hoarder) and her house had been full to bursting with fabric with only a small path through the boxes. They are buying me so much vintage fabric, I’m afraid I am going to become that woman.

These pictures are unbelievable.

The barn

a hint at what lies beyond

My aunt called my mom to come help her because there was just too much. (That’s my mom in the pic)

I started laughing out loud when I saw this. There is HAY in the barn. lol

My aunt’s van loaded down

She hasn’t sent me any pics yet of the actual fabric. I can’t wait to see it though. my family is so awesome. They are always on the lookout for stuff for me. That same aunt mailed me a big box of stuff yesterday. Oh yah, they got all that for a little over $60.

In case I wasn’t clear, all those boxes in that barn were fabric & sewing related.