Hello Dear Reader,
When I look through my stash of fabrics, the colours often remind me of something or somewhere. I love faded gentle colours, bright yellows and purple hues.
I love the faded blues and yellows that remind me of warm summer evenings drinking rose wine on my holidays. Even the bushy flowering hydrangeas in my garden remind me of the my holiday journey.
From left to right. Blue shirt - donated, Blue and yellow pillowcases - 50p each from the charity shop, blue and cream checked seersucker - donated dress, yellow striped - 50p from the jumble sale, lilac floral - 50p from the charity shop, lilac shirt - donated. The yellow floral fabric was a five metre off-cut from eBay, which cost £7. Plenty to make a quilt.
(Apologies for my absence - this yucky joint pain sent me to bed with pain killers yesterday xxx)
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs
Good luck for Saturday. I hope you all have a good day. Sorry I cannot be with you, Hope you are feeling better Froogs.
ReplyDeleteLove Dianne - Hereford.
Sounds so exciting, have tons of fun - know you will x
ReplyDeleteouch froogs no fun pain driving you to your bed. The colours look wonderful and fresh yellow and blue is one of my all time fave colour combos. Hope you all have a wonderful day on Saturday feel better
ReplyDeleteRachel
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Enjoy Saturday x
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a wonderful day on Saturday. I wish I was close enough to join in the fun.
ReplyDeleteHope you are feeling better. I would love to have been able to come on Saturday. I kept looking at the AA route planner to try to make Cornwall closer so I could justify the cost of the petrol, then fate intervened and I now have to fetch my son from uni , so I couldn't have made it!I will be thinking of you, hoping that you all have a brilliant time and am looking forward to a full report of your day on the blog!
ReplyDeleteHave fun! Love Penny L in Dorsetxx
Hope you have a terrific time quilting on Saturday - would love to be with you stitching away but at the moment although you're not that far away it just wouldn't be doable - i will be with you stitching with you in spirit - most of all have fun!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, have a lovely day! The colours are lovely!
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping the follow up post will give me the confidence to have a go myself!
I have saved lots of fabric throughout each of my children's lives and I would love to make each of them a heirloom quilt, including patches of these fabrics with personal memories-but I admit I'm too scared!
Like you said, I should just go for it and not worry about wonky seams and unpicking etc!
Thank you!
love
Claire
xxx
love blue and yellow...always looks so French to me.
ReplyDeleteGet better soon, i get joint pain in knees and elbows-really bad sometimes, so can sympathize :-( x
ReplyDeleteI'm not even a quilter and I'd love to come! Pictures! We want pictures!! You guys are gonna have so much fun.
ReplyDelete--Maxine in Idaho USA
I hope that the group has a wonderful day together. I look forward to hearing all about it.
ReplyDeleteHope the joints have eased for you.
At last - someone who understands the concept of 'scrap' being 'previously used'! Great colours/patterns from the shirts and pillowcases :-)
ReplyDeleteI've seen some beautiful quilts that folks have made, but they've bought fat-quarters and brand new material just to create a patchwork!
Same as the 'scrapbooking' craze that seems to rely on you going out and purchasing ready-cut peices! What's all that about?
Coming from a family where rag-rugs were our only form of carpeting (even the dog had his own rug!), our cast off clothes were recycled into rugs and former-favourite cotton dresses were salvaged for patchwork items!
Loving your blog! :-)
SueH The Knitting Assassin!
Twitter - @Librarymaid
I so wish I could be there. I am a self taught quilter and that is evident in my first (unfinished) quilt. But I have loved making it and I don't care that it's not perfect - for neither am I! Have a wonderful day tomorrow,those colours are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteDo i need to bring thread? If so please say it's white I need! x
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