My Local Quilt Shop ~ Fabric Love

Who loves free fabric? ~ I love free fabric!

For Christmas, Mr. Scrapatch went to my local quilt shop 

and bought a gift card that also included the bonus of a card

 that lets me choose one yard of free fabric per month.  

What a guy! 

 For "Local Quilt Shop Day" I visited my favorite LQS:

Bits n Pieces Quilt Shop in Pelham, NH

I have been shopping here since it was a tiny place across the street with no long arm machines.  I remember shopping its moving sale when I came home with bolts of fabric that were $2.00 per yard.  Some of them are still in my closet finding ways into my quilts.

It is always a bit cluttered with bolts of colorful fabric stacked everywhere

 and full of fabric treasures waiting to be found.

It feels like home. 

Bits n Pieces, by the way, is one the quilt shop where I always see two or three men wandering the narrow aisles. Today was no exception. 

It is that kind of place. 

This is my progress last year on 

My Kingfisher Quilt

There are quite a few of the $2.00 per yard BnP moving sale fabrics in the hexies. 

It was set aside at the end of summer for other projects. 

I have been putting in a few stitches here and there

to make more folded hexies for this quilt.

When I saw this Hummingbird Heaven Fabric from Studio E 

I decided it would be perfect to add to my floral fabrics and hexies.

There are free quilt patterns for this line in the link above.

One free pattern is this easy and beautiful panel quilt:

Hummingbird Heaven Free Pattern Here

If you would like a kit for this quilt:

Bits n Pieces has this Hummingbird Heaven Quilt Kit Here

I loved these pink and yellow nasturtiums. 

It is true hummingbirds love nasturtiums because I have seen them feasting on the nectar of the ones in my windowboxes in late summer. 

Hummingbird Heaven Here

I hope you had a happy Local Quilt Shop Day! 

Salt and Sand Blog Hop ~ My Day

Welcome!

Here is my newest project. 

Last year I showed these fabrics Here

I bought these fabrics at

Bits 'n' Pieces Quilt Shop in Pelham, NH.

I knew I wanted to make something in these fabrics as soon as I saw the announcement for this

Salt and Sand Blog Hop @ Just Let Me Quilt

The pattern is by

Among Brenda's Quilts & Bags

and it is easy to follow with good illustrations.

I have cut the sides for all three size buckets from 

1 and 1/4 yards of This Large Print Fabric.

I believe I also have enough 2.5" strips for the bindings, too.

I did not buy the bucket pattern last year, as I feel all thumbs making 

bags and buckets and it was sold out at my local shop.

Note to self: "buy it when you see it."

  I decided that these would be a perfect gift for someone I love,

 so I decided to give these fabric buckets a try for this blog hop.

Since I did not have the pattern, 

the webbing for the handles,

or the Bosal In R Form foam stabilizer ... 

I  recently ordered these online for this project from:

Sew Classic Fabrics

The pattern was included in the kit and the fabrics were all neatly marked. 

I purchased the webbing and the stabilizer separately. 

I definitely recommend this stablizer for this project

as it has much better form than the soft iron-on stabilizer I had on hand.

I could have tried making fabric handles, but I wanted my gift to have 

as sturdy and professional look as I could manage.

These are the fabric pieces for Medium Size Bucket.

The brown rock print is the bottom fabric for all three buckets.

The lining fabrics are from the other prints in the fabric line.

Sewing the webbing for the handles was a task for my heavy dual feed foot

 on my Jannome 6600p.

I would not attempt this bucket project without a good walking foot.

I am pleased with how these worked up.

Following the directions is not too difficult 

but this process is time consuming for me

as I can only sew in small increments

and then I have to rest my eyes again.

So far I have only completed the medium bucket

but I have the side panels for the small and large buckets

 cut and fused and ready to quilt. 

I hope to make the next two buckets this week.

Yesterday, I received the Johnson & Johnson One-Dose Covid vaccine

and my arm is a little sore ... not bad, just a little achy.

Today may be a day of rest. 

I am very pleased with how this sewed up.

I may alter the lining directions for the next two buckets

as my lining is a little loose inside.

This project was quilty kitty approved! 

Mr Scrapatch really likes this project,

so I may be making more of them for our own use.

I am really enjoying this blog hop! 

Please visit all the lovely bloggers for today:

March 23

MooseStashQuilting

Life in the Scrapatch (you are here)

Food for Thought

For The Love Of Geese

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Karrin’s Crazy World

Sew Many Yarns

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Thanks to

Carol @ Just Let Me Quilt

for hosting this fun blog hop. 

Happy Blog Hopping!