Sewing Serendipity!

Ever since Ange's great Australian Vintage Sheet FQ swap, I've been filled with enthusiasm for vintage sheet projects. And it seems I'm not the only one- whenever I bring out a sheet project I hear squeals of delight (and perhaps a small sigh from Mister Bell...hello my Sweet!).

The first vintage sheet project that came to mind was of course a quilt. I've been very inspired by these ones from Melissa of Clothwork and this and many others from Deb of Works in Progress. I sorted through my sheets from the swap and chose my favorite decorator colours.

We all have our colours, don't we? For clothes I love red, for Bug clothes it's blue and green. For decorating, usually brights. For the vintage sheet quilt I've chosen pastels. After sorting through my swap sheets I was left with a small pile of browns and one yellow and brown floral.

Inspiration flew in for the browns, and I began the owl (b)owling team, my Creative Space post for today.

That left the yellow and brown sheet. It really caught my eye but I just couldn't place it- owl or quilt? quilt or owl?

Then- a eureka moment -giraffe! I never can resist a giraffe. I've made an applique shirt and cut our a softie, and the FQ is almost gone, sniff!

And now for the serendipity. I was looking at the blog of another sheet swapper Susan at It's The Things That Make You Go Mmmm. Susan's having a vintage sheet giveaway at the moment- don't miss it!- and I was looking at the piles of goodies when I saw- the giraffe sheet! I left a comment to say I'd got a piece in the swap, and Susan very kindly offered me the rest of the sheet! And I saw that Susan has set aside one of my donations for her blue and green quilt, so I've got something to offer her too!

And now for the really serendipitous part- it turns out we're both members of the same sewing group, but being fairly new and sporadic we haven't crossed paths. Until now, yay! and we're meeting there next week!

Do you have any serendipitous sewing stories?