I am grateful that I have met so many wonderful people first through quilting and now blogging. It never fails to amaze me how generous and thoughtful people can be. I hope I can be the same to my very special quilting friend who is going through such a tough time at the moment.
Anne, a wonderful blogger living in the idyllic Brittany countryside sent me some gorgeous fabrics and this wonderful sewing caddy. I'm not sure if that's it's technical name...
But as I'm using it for my hexagons, that's what I'll call it. Thank you Anne!
Sadly, another local quilt shop has closed it's doors. I had actually not been before the last day as it's not that local to me (about an hour away, just outside of Harrogate), but I decided to go on the last day just to see what I would be and had been missing. It was housed in a gorgeous converted barn...
I took this photo to include the hexagon quilt hanging on the stairwell and my little monsters who are not 'big' into quilting LOL
Such a shame
Pennypot Patchwork has had to close it's doors, but I imagine there was just not enough support. At the cost of fabrics in local quilt shops here in the UK, it is difficult for us on budgets to support them especially when fabric can be purchased from the US for half the price including postage. I did buy a few FQ's of sale stock though as I felt, I'd driven all that way and it would be rude not to...
And as it was quite a drive, a gorgeous day and I had 2 wrigglies with me, I decided to stop at
Bolton Abbey on the way back so that the boys could have a paddle in the stream.
They loved it and as it had been one of our first 'proper' sunny days all dreadful summer long we made the most of it.
