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Saturday, 18 February 2012

Charity shop finds.

So as well as shopping online to buy designer fabrics, I've also decided to look in charity shops too. Mainly as they always have random clothing or bedding etc in them that can be cut up and used for crafting purposes.
There are a range of them in my small town center, each with varied prices on their items. I think the cheapest so far has been in my actual town center, but hey they can't all have the same prices.
So today whilst mooching around the charity shops, and oddly spending way more time in them than expected I found these few things.
Book, which has some really helpful techniques, then the rest of the book  is pictures and information on quilts made using those techniques. 

Front of a pillowcase, I'll be using this to make my first quilt =D

The back of the pillow case above. Also will be using squares from this=D

Another pillow case. This one is rather large. Will use it for a little girls quilt 
These were the main things that caught my attention and the cases weren't part of a set. There were actual duvet sets, but they weren't as suitable as the patterns on them were too loud. I was tempted to get some valet sheets to use as backing. May have to venture back there one week and buy some....Or go to Primark on a town venture. Their items are always fairly reasonable in pricing.

Thursday, 16 February 2012

My new fabrics.

Ordered from Eternal Maker I received my new bundle of FQ's and Half metres. Plus a sewing starter kit

The package. It took me a while to get into it. After taking off the plastic there was tape and cardboard. Then more tape and cardboard then finally my fabrics and set.

Fabric!!!!!!!!!

Yes I ordered a varied selection

More of the selection

The starter set.


You can see the collection better on the my fabrics page =D. I still have a few more packages to be delivered, but I have to wait till next week or so for those.

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Swap Time!!

So I just got rid  I mean swapped some fabrics for the Fugly fabric giveaway. This left me in the mood to swap some more fabrics. So after purchasing some more fabrics online I was sorting them out into colour groups and there were some I just couldn't place anywhere,at all. Seriously!! So I am giving you, my lovely followers a chance to swap fabrics with me. Yes it's really that easy. Just head on over to the Swap Time page to see what you have to do =D
Good luck and don't forget to share this on your blog so your friends/followers have a chance to enter too.

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Fugly Fabric Party-Swap

So I posted on the Very Berry Handmade page for Ali's swap. She mailed me not long after. I picked out some of my fabrics to send to her. The ones I knew I wouldn't miss and would never use. On Monday upon getting in from work I had three lovely parcels waiting for me. One of those from Ali!!
I opened it and out tumbled more fabric scraps than I had expected. I sorted them out into piles and here there are
OK so out of these I like 2 can you guess which ones?

Out of these ones 3 were my favourite,

Out of these I like 3 the best

3 of these will go nicely with my vintage fabrics the other two hmmmm...
As you can see a varied selection of colours and styles, some modern others vintage-which will come in handy to go with the other vintage fabrics I just purchased
They are 4" squares I may cut down to make a mini quilt or I'll leave them whole and make a small quilt with some of the other fabrics from Ali. I was happy for the ones with the bears on they'll look so cute on a baby cot quilt. I also purchased these, they're also 4" squares

Bought from good old eBay. I have ordered some other fabrics, they are yet to arrive. It is a joy coming home to have something to open =D