So, my local quilt shop does a $10 quilt every year. Pay $10, follow a bunch of rules and get the fabric and instructions to make 12 – 12 1/2″ quilt blocks.
The fabric choices weren’t really my cuppa java, but I loves me a bargain.
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This month’s design:
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September
October
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December
January
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October is my favourite!!! I wish there was a sewing shop nearby. I think there is (or was, at least) the acrylic-yarn and paper and lame pottery craft-shop in Helensburgh (an hour’s bus ride away). That and http://www.lomond-tapestry.com/
Also, let me complain a little, there is a Stitch & B*tch (that’s what they call it, with the asterisk and everything) 2 miles down the street from me, but you have to pay, like, £2.50 or something just to go. That and the bus fair would be a fiver and I’m too cheap for that.
There was this awesome sewing place in PDX. They had sewing get-togethers once a month or so and at the end of the meeting, you got to pick a giftie from their pile — a wee cheap travel sewing kit, nice thread, or a fat quarter. Oh, I miss that place!
OMG, I forgot to mention, I was the youngest person at their sewing-thingie by about 20 years and all the ladies acted like everything I made was total genius! It was so cute. I mean, I did make some nice things, but, you know….
I like the LOOK of October, but it was super-boring. It doesn’t help that I don’t really like the fabric I picked. As I said, though, a $10 quilt of batik fabric is a pretty sweet deal. It’ll make a good present for…someone.
One of our local yarn shops charges for their knit night – AND you have to use yarn and needles bought from their shop. No thanks. Free is better.
I am, by far, the youngest in my quilt group (except for a friend of mine that has only a few years on me). It’s not really a place to socialize, though, so it doesn’t bother me much.
I checked out that link…not really my cup of tea. How much plaid does one need in their home? Though, I recently made a scrap quilt from a zillion plaid bits I had in my stash.
It’s too bad shipping is so freakin’ expensive. I could keep you in awesome fabric. Boo to the Canadian Postal Service.
~A
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