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.
