Mendocino

Being the dedicated sewer that I am, I have a tendency to hoard collect fabric.  Especially ones that I deem "special".  I keep them separated from the rest of my stash and call them The Horde.  One of said special fabric collections is Heather Ross's Mendocino.  It was her last line for Freespirit fabrics and it is one of my 2 most favorite fabric lines.  So because it is so special it has been sitting on my fabric shelf for 3 years.

Then a couple of weeks ago Kelbysews had the brilliant but terrifying idea to have a quilt a long where we actually use the fabric that we have been hoarding for years.  GASP!  A little traumatizing, but I thought, "Hey!  I should do that!"

So I got to work swapping some of my less precious fabric for some of the Mendocino prints that I didn't have.  One of the swaps I did was with Amanda.  She swapped me 2 very generous cuts for one of my fabric buckets.  So I decided to practice cutting into some other prints from the horde to make her bucket and also to prepare me for cutting into the Mendocino.

I was able to finish the bucket without too much anxiety.  But now that it's time for to cut into Menodcino I can feel the panic rising.  It is sitting on my cutting table ready to go.  But mostly I just keep moving it around, and petting it, and taking photos of it.

Maybe today will be the day that I work up the nerve to do it!  It's just fabric, right?