My quilt is going to be sawtooth stars in wildlife print, black, and blue and green batiks.  The first time I bought stuff, I got almost half as much batiks as I needed, so I bought more, and I bought the black at that time.  I didn’t get enough.  Unfortunately, the bolt I bought from was (of course) gone… and the “black” we have left is actually very dark green.

I eventually located the remains of my bolt in the fat quarter section, and spent almost 4x as much to buy two of them as it would have cost if they hadn’t been fat quartered. 

I also found a bolt of the goldfish fabric I wanted, at the other store.  I bought a full 8 repeats, even though I can’t imagine using more than half that much for the quilt. 

In other news, I am now the proud owner of two orchids!  With two more on the way!  I’ve been considering buying an orchid since my trip to Ecuador a couple of years ago, when we visited two orchid gardens and I was fascinated by their specialization.  So I decided this week, it is time to take the plunge.  I went to a meeting of the local orchid society, where they happened to be having a raffle and a door prize.  I bought 6 tickets for the raffle and put them all in the one plant I wanted (an unknown hybrid cattleya), since there weren’t that many people there and I figured I had a pretty good chance of winning.  The nice man who won the door prize orchid gave it to me, it’s much too big for my dorm room but seems happy sitting in our living room (of course, its been there two days, so I haven’t had time to screw anything up).  The meeting was quite informative, the people were very nice, and the flowers they had to show were beautiful.  Note to self – next time bring paper and pen to take notes and make a wish list.  Anyway, I’ve been doing my own research and have ordered two other species, one of which is totally not recommended for beginners but I totally love the entire genus, so I’m going to give it a try.