In fact, what has happened is we shop much more on-line so we get postal deliveries from shops, and we make friends on line and get postal deliveries from them too!
I found a group on Facebook called the $7 Quilt. The explanation was:
I went to a garage sale and this lady was selling 2 buckets full of 2.5 squares and triangles already cut up ( traced with pencil and cut by scissors). I told her she should keep it and finish a quilt with it, and she said no that she wanted to get rid of it. I bought it for $7.00. I have made a king size quilt with it and still have a lot of fabric left. Some fabric is great, others are real thin, but I use them anyway just for the story of the quit. In the process I have added fabric to the buckets and it has grown... [An] idea I have is to sell it for $7.00 and the next person could make a quilt and add some more fabric and sell it for $7.00 and see how long it would take to run out and how many quilts it would make.
I joined the US group, but then found there was a UK group too - called the £7 Quilt, and I joined that too. I expected to lurk for a while and see what happened on the group, but within a few days I was asked for my address as the 'bucket' (actually a bag; much easier to post) was ready to be sent to me!!!
So this arrived from a lovely lady called Jane
At about the sometime there was a post on a yahoo group I dip in and out of: UKandoGroup: Sue asked if any one does "craft for charity or know someone who does please". I replied telling her about Crafty Church, and she sent me this package:
Jane said not to pay the £7 as she hadn't paid originally, and additionally neither lady has accepted anything for postage, so I will make two donations to Cancer Research, and I am sitting here trying not to dribble on the lovely fabrics and decide what I can do with the £7 Quilt pieces, and what the Crafty Church ladies could do with Sue's donations
Wow Benta - do I spy some Laurel Burch fabrics in that bundle? They are my long term favourites - how lovely that you will be working with them.
ReplyDeleteWow Benta, sounds fantastic! Those fabrics are really beautiful and I know you will make beautiful quilts with them! x Teje
ReplyDeleteBeautiful fabrics and i love the bucket idea :-)
ReplyDeleteBrilliant idea regarding the bucket of fabric. Sounds like a great way to share the stash :)
ReplyDeleteI love the $7 bucket idea too. I've only seen the contents in $5 boxes so far. I will spread the story.
ReplyDeleteI have total faith in you making a super quilt out of hodge-podge fabrics.
Some triangles and squares might have cleared UK customs as we speak....
This sounds like it would be a nice way to "pay it forward" with fellow quilters. I would be interested someday to participate. I have to put the group in the back of my mind for the future.
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely selection of fabrics you have there not heard of either group, might have to investigate
ReplyDeleteAren't we part of a lovely community Benta? Have fun playing with your colourful new fabrics!
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