I had been thinking about this trip for a while.

This company has a website and I spent quite a while looking at the possibilities I might have to buy. In fact, I made a file folder with pics of what I wanted. I thought they might be out of a lot of what I wanted so I made sure there was plenty to choose from.

The fabrics here tend to not be printed with the precision that we like in the states - it just doesn’t have the detail.

As such, I spend a lot of time searching their website for things I like AND that I think will work well for what I need as backings for these charity quilts.

Since I have so.many.tops to do, I need to restock my fabrics that I use for the backings.

Years and years ago I used up a lot of my lesser than fabrics for backings for these quilts. Then I used up pretty much all of those fabrics and didn’t want to keep buying second hand pieces for them.

Then I realized that if I didn’t piece the backings, but used a single piece of fabric, it would be faster (and reversible) and I can get plenty of charity quilts done while at the same time giving myself time to do my own more creative projects.

I do still have some from my last trip but I have used up almost all of children’s backings - and most of the general ones for the adult ones (I still have some folk fabrics). Since I’m thinking the prices will all go up in the new year, I wanted/needed some more backings now - before the weather gets any worse OR the price goes up any higher.

So, we got up and left reasonably early. Kejt opens at 8 am but we didn’t need to get there that early.

I needed an hour or and hour and a half to go through the warehouse and pick out fabrics. I had a list with me to remind me what I want to buy.

I also had printed out the pictures so I could show the lady who walked around with me and wrote down as I say what I want.

Then a young man picked up the bolt, told her how many meters are on the bolt and put the bolts in a pile.

I started out by going to check out the solids since I needed black and white - and was determined to get those first. Thankfully they were super well stocked. In fact, they were probably the best stocked from any other time I’ve been there. I had a bit of money (!) with me this time, so I was grateful! You have to pay with cash at this place. I think regular businesses who order and get orders, probably pay with bank transfers (like an echeck).

Most of the places in the warehouse I couldn’t get photos of simply because I didn’t think about it AND I was with a couple of their employees so I didn’t feel free to. Plus, it was so crammed full and the aisleways were dark and a bit cramped, so didn’t make for any better photo taking than what I got. I was glad I had already decided pretty much on what I wanted.

They may have let me take photos had I asked, but I decided to just focus on what I was choosing and looking for.

While I was paying for it, Mike loaded it into the back of the pickup so I wasn’t able to get great photos of that part.

The back end of the pickup truck was full.

By the time we got home - it was dark. Once again - Mike and I brought it into the entryway of our house - as my living room is full of charity quilts!

I did get quite a few solids this time including black and white, ecru, sand, and light brown, turquoise blue, royal blue, denim blue, a sage green, grass green, hunter green and a burnt orange along with yellow.

Then I got prints that I wanted for the back of these children’s quilts and adult quilts. I am tickled with all that I was able to get. I am so grateful that Mike was a trooper. We got home and unloaded by about 4 pm and it felt like it was bedtime. Having it dusk at 2:30 and dark by 4 adds to that!

I do not have time before I wanted to share this post with you to bring all of these into the living room and get proper pictures of each of these about 40-50 bolts. I do want to show them to you - and no, my sis has even more beautiful fabrics, with a lot more detail in the print. But, I am doing the best I can to choose nice fabrics with what we have available here in Poland.

Please do not ask me for these fabrics - my sis does not have these for sale - these are located HERE in Poland.

One thing I have heard moms tell me is that they really like animal prints - so I did end up with quite a few of those.

I will take pics at another time. Today we have a guest in from the states and I don’t have a time or place to place them on the living room floor, unpack them all and take photos. I actually want to do that - but…not yet.

Thanks for coming along with me on this journey! Have a great day wherever you are reading this.

Be sure to check out what my sis has for you in the store here!

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