Making new flowers

I started pulling out fabrics to make new flowers for my Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt last night. Everything was going along fine until I realized that I couldn’t my background off-white fabric. I only have a few background pieces cut and basted for continuing the second half, so I definitely needed to make more.

I searched my project bag, then the storage bin holding my 30s fabrics. Then all my other fabric storage bins (especially the ones with solids and neutrals). I searched everywhere. Or so I thought. An hour and a half later, I finally found it. Where was it? At the bottom of the closet, on the floor, buried beneath several project bags. Whew! I was panicked for a bit, thinking that maybe I had accidentally thrown it out, given it away, or used it thinking it was muslin, and trying to think of how in the world I would match that off-white if I couldn’t find it.

All’s well that ends well. I may have lost some time while searching, but I’m so glad to have found it so I can make the background hexies I’ll need to continue the quilt without an obvious change in color (or searching to find and purchase more of that shade).