You Look Familiar...

I check True Up all the time to scope out the latest and greatest in quilt fabric. I'm scrolling down... Hey! New stuff from Anna Griffin! But wait, that one looks familiar...

Anna Griffin's "new" fabric...


...compared to the Happy Homemaker by Darlene Zimmerman for Kaufman Fabrics some years back from my collection...


They are "swirl for swirl" identical except in colourways. Is it legal? Was the scale of the design tweaked just enough to make it so? Is fabric design this unregulated? And can't Anna Griffin just design fresh? Come ON.

Kanzashi!

Not a whole lot of time lately to sew, but I squeezed in some craftiness this week after the arrival of this wonderful book, "Kanzashi In Bloom." I want to make a hundred of them, then go downtown to a specialty button shop and spend a few hours selecting just the right button centre for each one...