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Tuesday 24 August 2010

Purchases and Gifts

GLUE PEN GIFT

The Goodies I Bought

From the book Born To Quilt
 
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Today I received a gift from Lori at HUMBLE QUILTS. I am thrilled to have this gift as I see so many bloggers using them ,So now I have one too. A big thank you Lori.

I also have to own up to my purchases at the Festival of Quilts at the weekend.
I couldn't resist this pattern by Hoopla . It is scenes of Childhood from the Shelburne Museum collection.

I also had to have these fabrics and of course then their was the lovely perle cotton from Valdani . You can't get these lovely threads in the UK so was thrilled to find the Canadian company had made it over to the FOQ for the first time.
I did purchase some lovely wool in Paducah this year and now have the thread to go with them . No excuses now not to make something lovely in wool.

Just had to have this book- The title is in English but it is written in French so can't read a word of it but the picture's are delicious . Its just one of those books that you need to have lying around to give you that little bit of inspiration for a small project. Lets hope I have enough nonce to work out of how things are made.
Finally I bought this lovely big reel of Aurifil thread. My machine really likes it and apart from YLI was the only thread I used to stock in my shop.
What thread do you like using? I would love to know.

Sue

5 comments:

  1. I like the glue pen as it makes some preparation very quick and easy. You don't need much and it holds well. Is that a book or magazine because if it is a magazine I bought the English version in WHSmiths. It is a great book with some lovely ideas. I think it was Magicpatch. I wish I had spent more time looking at her stand but it was so busy and I couldn't get to it properly. I am not very up with threads for machining but for hand quilting I love YLI and Mettler. For applique I like the Superior threads. Are you going to make the toy quilt with your purchases.
    Shirley.

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  2. You are going to love the glue pen Sue. It saves so much time with hexagons.

    Love your purchases and I love the bag on the cover of that book, wish we could get a copy here.

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  3. I love the Aurfil Thread but i use my big reel of thread for hand piecing not a fan of sewing machines we aren't the best of friends lol.

    And i was lucky enough to purchase the complete range of Aurfil cotton threads 130 in total i think, love the colour range and i use these threads for my applique.

    Adele xx

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  4. I'm glad the pen made it safely. I was glad to send it.
    What lovely purchases!Hoopla has some terrific patterns.

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  5. Sue, I have that Hoopla pattern, too. I've even got the fabric for it, and it's all been sitting in a bin for 2 years. Oh, for more hours in the day.

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