Make and Mend!

 

Well I'm late to the party, again.

This weekend I was in Boston because reasons, and while I was there my husband and I visited a really cool new-to-me store, Make and Mend in Somerville, Mass.  They are a used-craft-supply store, like someone's giant destash or your dream craft room. They have supplies for all kinds of crafts- sewing, needlearts, scrapbooking, stamping, jewelry making, you name it, plus notebooks, stickers, pens, fun jewelry, all kinds of neat stuff.

Apparently they have been open in various forms since 2017 but I only heard about them last week. Luckily I did, and we were able to squeeze in a visit.

I bought more stuff than is pictured here but the other things were like weird stickers and jewelry items that I wasn't sure you would be interested in. I got the Gypsy Gripper, the purple thing on the left, for a mere $8, and a huge piece of what will be backing fabric for very cheap, and a fun notebook, and an adorable unicorn pin cushion, all for bargain prices.

Of course you never know what you will find but you will find everything and anything. Check them out!

End of the Guild Season

Well this past Saturday was the last meeting of my guild for the season. I had a good time at the meeting- I handed off a donation quilt and got rid of some fabric and tools from my sewing room as well. We have a "free table" at every meeting and members bring in fabric, notions and whatever for it. I usually get a pretty good haul of stuff and this month was no exception, but this month I had some good things to give away as well.

At the end of every guild year we make quilt blocks for departing Board members; we're assigned the patterns ahead of time and bring them to the final meeting.

This is one of the blocks and

this is the other; variations on the same pattern in different colorways. They were easy and fun to piece up and I got to use some scraps which is always good.

I got to show off the two things I've completed recently- the Crumb Stars and the unfinished top from the retreat. Here's a picture before I actually stitched it together:

I have a few other things to work on first but I'm hoping to get it quilted up before the fall. I'm planning to back it with some special fabric. More on that later.

The guild also introduced two challenges for the summer, neither of which I'm participating in. I did agree to take a round robin quilt home and quilt and finish it over the summer months, so that is my contribution to guild activities.

As always it was so great to see everyone and I had a great time. Cheers to our Board for doing such a terrific job for another year.

From Queen Size to Comfort Quilts

 So a while back I wrote about how I had a queen sized Double Irish chain quilt that I hated, and how glad I was to be able to pass it along to a guild friend who was going to quilt and finish it for charity.

 

 

 

 

Well here it is - or here they are, two of the three quilts she created from my original top. I could not be happier. They are off to their new homes or will be soon.

 Here's the label she made with my name and hers.  So great. Thank you Jody! You're the best.