Sunday 6 May 2012

The best sort of shopping

You may remember I made a quilt for a friend of Lisa's 21st. [Heather's Black and White and Pink]  Well her mum, Carol, asked if I would make another one, for her sister.  In purple please

I don't know about you, but purple is one of the coloursI have problems matching - so many shades.  I pulled a whole load from my stash, and sent them off with Heva (Heather!).  There were a few Carol liked, so we agreed to meet at Helen's - a log cabin in Helen's garden where she sells fabrics and holds classes.

Like me, Carol likes Spraytime, and the one I think of as snakeskin: we had a lovely time choosing these fabrics.  So just to make this very clear . . .
  • I got to go to a fabric shop, 
  • I come out with fabrics that I can cut into (however I like) 
  • and stitch back together (however I like)
  • and I didn't have to spend any money

 

I didn't think the day could get any better, until Carol asked if I could make some place mats too, so we had to choose MORE fabric for me to use


I even got some sewing done: no pic as it's just a pile of fabric, but Endless Ribbon got ironed pressed (thank you Jackie) and the first row stitched - it is now 27.5m long and 4.5 inches wide - What a fab holiday weekend!

7 comments:

  1. Glad you had a good one!
    No cooking then?

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  2. Wasn't a bad way to spend the weekend!

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  3. Love the idea of not paying but I think I would struggle if they didn't like my choices! Control freak that I am! I never knew! Haha!

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  4. New fabric to play with and not having to spend any money, how cool is that!!

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  5. That sounds like the best type of shopping by far! And those purples are beautiful, but then I am biased as I love purples anyway.

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  6. You seem to have had a very good Bank Holiday! LOL x

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