Another Make & Mend Trip

 I was in the Boston area a couple of weeks ago and of course had to stop by Make and Mend in Somerville, my new happy place.

This time I picked up a large piece of fabric for backing; a book called The Quilter's Night Before Christmas: A Treasury of Tradition; some book repair tape; and some pencils. . The total spend for all this was under $20! 

The book is a collection of patterns for quilts and quilted projects based on the famous poem; I'm not likely going to make the projects but I thought it would be a nice coffee-table book for the Christmas season. I was delighted to find it because Make and Mend's donation policies say they don't take Christmas items of any kind. The pencils are nice and I'm already using one for my daily diary-keeping. My husband picked out the book repair tape because book repair is a hobby of his but I've already used some as one of my books started to break apart and we actually needed it. So you should buy everything, because you just never know what you will need.

Anna Maria Horner Fat Quarter Quilt

Here is my latest quilt, based on a pattern by Eudaimonia Studio. It was a free pattern from Art Gallery Fabrics.

I made it with a pack of Anna Maria Horner fabric that I won in a giveaway. The look isn't really my thing, and the pack, all 22 fat quarters, sat around in my stash for a very long time until I found this pattern that really spoke to me. I used 16 of the quarters for the blocks and scraps for the binding. 

I sewed it back in the spring at my guild's spring retreat, and finally quilted it recently on my Janome with my favorite Quilters Dream Green batting and a yellow Aurifil thread. It came out cute, but it's not a keeper. One of my friends admired it and so I'm giving it to her tonight. She's put up with a lot from me over the years, so she should get a quilt.