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.

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!