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I'm not hallucinating, I can prove it

   I love fabric, in an addictive manner, even in the past few years when I didn't have time to actually do any project, I still went to buy fabric from time to time, eventually, they are everywhere.

   Last week, somehow I suddenly thought about a specific fabric which was bought at Joanna years ago, a yard long.  It is a brown fabric with blue, red, orange flowers and some sparkling, very pretty. I went thought the 1~2 yards brown pile,  "no, not there", then I checked he floral design pile, not there either. Hmmm, maybe piles under 1 yard? no, I couldn't find it anywhere. This made me crazy.

  Am I imaging it? I actually never bought it, I saw it in some shop and got impressed, but I didn't buy it. I regretted so much that I imaged that I already had it. Is that possible? NO, I have evidence, luckily, LOL


see, the left bottom fabric, that's the one I'm talking about. I'm glad that I  made this owl pincushion long ago, although it has never served as a pincushion. After I attached 2 buttons as its eyes, it's too cute to stab needles in. And now it serves a new purpose.

And no, I still couldn't find it, maybe my next project should be reorganizing fabric.
 

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