The one where I did *more* machine embroidery and some quilting

You really don't expect *more* photos of preschool uniforms I hope?  I'm getting a little fed up with them - 44 down, 31 to go!!!

However the HST and Strings / £7 quilt has moved along and now looks like this

I've done some liberated (free range) quilting in the solids . . .

using a lovely variegated thread . . .

However, my drawer of fabric strings doesn't seem to have gone down AT ALL!!!

The one where I worked on a £7 quilt

Not much time for sewing today, (appointments in town and a visit to mum), but I did get the solid & strings HSTs stitched, trimmed and pressed.

I'm really happy with how it's looking

And just for a giggle - I took this pic of mum and a fish we caught near her home ...

 

 

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The one where I started a £7 quilt

A while ago I joined a Facebook group called the £7 Quilt Group, I blogged about it here. I've had the fabric for about three months but just haven't had the time to do anything.

Today I started sewing random strips from my stash

 

And I've pinned triangles from the £7 bag to them, with a plan to make half string and half solid HST blocks. I think it may be a bit busy, but enough of the strips are I-spy type fabrics that I think it will make a fun quilt for a child.

 

I'll be adding fabric to the "bucket" and then it will be ready to be passed on . . . If you fancy joining in the fun, search £7 quilt on Facebook and add yourself to the group.

 

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The Internet is A Wonderful Place

I remember when we started using the Internet - there was concerns that emails would be the death of real mail, and all our posties would be out of work.

In fact, what has happened is we shop much more on-line so we get postal deliveries from shops, and we make friends on line and get postal deliveries from them too!

I found a group on Facebook called the $7 Quilt. The explanation was:
I went to a garage sale and this lady was selling 2 buckets full of 2.5 squares and triangles already cut up ( traced with pencil and cut by scissors). I told her she should keep it and finish a quilt with it, and she said no that she wanted to get rid of it. I bought it for $7.00. I have made a king size quilt with it and still have a lot of fabric left. Some fabric is great, others are real thin, but I use them anyway just for the story of the quit. In the process I have added fabric to the buckets and it has grown... [An] idea I have is to sell it for $7.00 and the next person could make a quilt and add some more fabric and sell it for $7.00 and see how long it would take to run out and how many quilts it would make. 

I joined the US group, but then found there was a UK group too - called the £7 Quilt, and I joined that too.  I expected to lurk for a while and see what happened on the group, but within a few days I was asked for my address as the 'bucket' (actually a bag; much easier to post) was ready to be sent to me!!!

So this arrived from a lovely lady called Jane

At about the sometime there was a post on a yahoo group I dip in and out of: UKandoGroup: Sue asked if any one does "craft for charity or know someone who does please". I replied telling her about Crafty Church, and she sent me this package:

Jane said not to pay the £7 as she hadn't paid originally, and additionally neither lady has accepted anything for postage, so I will make two donations to Cancer Research, and I am sitting here trying not to dribble on the lovely fabrics and decide what I can do with the £7 Quilt pieces, and what the Crafty Church ladies could do with Sue's donations