Hello Dear Reader,
Today has been a brilliant fabric day! I had a mooch around the charity shops and found a pair of vintage curtains for £4 and an equally vintage sheet for £1. I’m going to use the fabric for upholstery and bag making. I’ve also been given the most stunning curtain fabric remnants which I’m going to use for the same purpose.
I love it when I find any thing that says ‘Made in Britain’, not much is made in Britain any more. I’m not only being thrifty with fabric but with my patterns too. In homage to all thing tech, I’m backing them up! I’m using brown paper which was intended for wrapping parcels. You could equally use newspaper but I would be afraid of it marking the fabric.
Here’s the pattern and the duplicate. I’m washing and drying the curtains tonight and I will cut the fabric tomorrow.
I know I already have a stash of fabric the size of a small European country but I love fabric and I’m going to love working with all of it. This week will be known as bag making week!
I would like to thank everyone who left comments of support yesterday and to the three emails of thanks I received today. I’m so grateful to all of you.
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxx
A 'Bag Making Week' sounds like a fine week indeed. Nice finds.
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I hope the curtain fabric projects turn out o,k I used a lot of furnishing fabric at one time before patchwork fabric was available in this country
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Like you I get so excited when I find anything made in Britain.
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I too use a pattern over and over. I back the paper pattern with freezer paper ironed to the back side of the pattern (before the pattern is ever cut out) This makes a pattern last and last. I have a few that are more than 20 years old and still are intact.
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If I lived closer(im in the states) I would beg you and of course pay you to make me a bag. But I have no idea what shipping is. My daughter is in Ireland for a semester and is going to England for 4 days this week but if she just showed up that would be strange. And in America its called stalking lol. But again you have given me a great idea!
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I'm off to search the charity shops for pink fabric to use to back my latest quilt. Hoping to pick up a single duvet cover in a nice girly colour - should do just the trick. Then the challenge of assembling it all - my least favourite part if the quilting process, I must admit! I'm becoming a fabric addict too!
Best Wishes
Debbie
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I can never find curtains or fabric in our local charity shops. It's not through lack of trying either.
You're so lucky.
Caroline
xxx
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Enjoy bag making week I am trying to finish my first quilt for my new niece. I may have bitten off more than I can chew…. x x
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Hello Froogs. I spent last Sunday making a bag( no pattern but my own measurements)from a friends old curtains and lined with her duvet cover, and it was the most wonderful creative experience. I hadn't used that sewing machine before and was so amazed by my results that I plan to spend this Sunday similarly occupied 😀 Odette
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I use brown paper to make durable patterns too. I recently read somewhere that to make them practically indestructable, cut them out of old shower curtains. Seems like that would be hard to find, though. But worth the effort if it's a pattern you use constantly.
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You have a gem with the crewel work stuff on the top right. If I am right, it's wool - I have that fabric in my living room for curtains, and I hand sewed them all too. The surplus I sold on Ebay as I didn't have anything to make with it but I also have another pair in storage. It's expensive stuff and I saved up for it when we moved into this house.
Someone was talking about old shower curtains, I found a pair in ASDA basic budget, with hooks (which was why I bought them) and they were only a couple of pounds.
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Lovely fabric Froogs. Looking forward to seeing the bags.
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I love your comments message- really funny! Hope you don't bite me! I actually have a bag made out out of that very same orange acrylic curtain! A friend made us all in our family them for Christmas 2 years ago! It's brilliant, so strong and it feels really warm! I really like seeing Made IN England too!
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