Here’s a really fun doodle fabric from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by HiFashion Fabrics, Inc. ©2002. The fabric is designed from patients’ artwork. I love this fabric’s energy and whimsy. Just looking at it makes me feel happy.

In 2004 I made a quilt, The Rainbow Maker (below), for the Hancock Fabrics/St. Jude Hospital Quilt of Dreams contest and used this fabric as the sashing in the outer borders. It won a judge’s choice award and 3 yards of fabric a month for an entire year. Click here to find out more about this quilt. Can you imagine, that was my 3rd ever blog entry! (March 2006) This post is #241.
That rainbow was what really got my stash going. (and the 36-yard fabric prize didn’t hurt either.) Every hue of the rainbow is made up of little pieces of fabric about an inch or so long each. I thought it was cheating if you used the same fabric twice, so I had to go on a real fabric hunt to get enough of each of the colors to make a whole rainbow.

After all these years I haven’t quite shaken that idea. Sometimes it’s still hard for me to use a fabric in more than one place in a single quilt.

My pigma pens and sketchbook are beckoning to me so I’ll sign off now.

=(^_^)= happy doodling!