Favorite Things Friday - Imagining the Possibilities

I was stumped just now for a succinct title for this FTF post, because I'm not really sure what to call my favorite thing this week.  It has to do with fabric.  Not fabric per se, though I do love the stuff, but specifically, pulling pieces for a project.  What do you call that?  Coordinating?  It's not really designing, is it?  Putting things together?  Eyeballing what works?  Testing?  

Really, it's kind of like swirling paint together on a palette.  A dab of this, a bigger dab of that, and making adjustments until the mixture results in something pleasing to the eye.

Yeah...that.

Anyway, it's what I've been doing recently, and I just love that part of the creative process.  Looking through my fabric stash, most of which has ended up stacked on my side table because the bins meant to hold it are full.  Holding up one hunk of fabric next to another, gauging the result, swapping one piece for another, then another, all the while imagining the finished product.  I get into that zone where time disappears.

Remember those 17 clutch purses I made over the past several weeks?  Gone.  All happily spoken for, and more have been requested.  The clutches I was going to give to my nieces for Christmas?  Well, let's just say I need to make them...again.

So I am back in manufacturing mode, having been engaged in what I think is the most pleasant part of the process.  Aside from seeing the end result, that is, because that's pretty awesome too.

What you see here are some of my groupings for the next go-round.  There are a few more that aren't pictured.  I think that bold orange and turquoise vintage fabric from the thrift store may turn out to be one of my favorite ones yet! 



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