Hi everyone!

                  Well, in light of my new discovery that I can quilt with No. 8 crochet cotton, I immediately began the search for this stuff in COLORS!  Yeah, I could do the quilting in white, or ecru...something vanilla like that, but I can't seem to leave well enough alone.  I want color!
  
         So first I went to my favorite place to get materials....Amazon.  And found.........nothing.  So, I popped on over to eBay and made another discovery.....there's very few places in the U.S. that sell the No. 8 colored crochet cotton, and I don't want to pay the postage necessary to get a little package of these lovelies from Turkey....or Paraguay....or ?  Okay.........so it was late in the day.....I couldn't begin a new project...so I thought, "Hey.  I'll just pop on over to Joann's and see what they have and I took my 40% coupon with me.

        I found this for roughly $10.00 and it was NOT on sale!  Yay!

Okay...it's variegated.  I didn't want variegated, I wanted solids, but here's the thing.....with my coupon, I only paid $6.00 and some change.  That's about $1.00 a ball, and that's roughly what the going rate is online---anywhere.  Okay, so with a 50% coupon, it would have been even less!

         So here's my plan....I'm going t scrounge as many coupons as I can for Joann's and pick up as many of these as I can.  Then, I'll try to incorporate a little color into a wall hanging (one ball will only do a little bit of quilting).  Meantime, I'll squirrel away one of the colors until I have a good supply of that color, and I can do a bigger wall hanging with that one color.  Okay.....not a very GREAT plan, but that's what I've come up with. 

      Now, here's the other things I picked up........

      So, as I said, I'm going to try to incorporate a little color into the wall hangings, but I think I will be forced to do the bulk of the quilting (where appropriate) in either the white or the ecru.  The only solid colors of No. 8 as individual balls that Joann carried were in green and red.  I guess more people use this stuff at Christmas time so it's good to stock it in May. *sigh*

      Anyhoooo....Today I have pulled out a small scrappy wall hanging top that I'd put away a while ago.  I'm going to sandwich it up and begin to quilt it with the crochet cotton.  I'll let you know how that goes tomorrow.  Blessings!