I don't use quilt shop gloves when I'm machine quilting. Instead I bought a pair of cheap cotton gardening gloves that have black sticky dots on them. I got them more than 7 years ago, I guess, and paid a buck for them. About 2 years ago I wore holes in the thumbs and index fingers when I'd finished a big quilting project, so I stitched them up as best as I could. I mean, the rest of the glove was fine, so I couldn't throw them out! They cost money, doncha know?
Well, now I've really done it. By the time I finished the last queen sized quilt I quilted, I'd worn holes in the patches on my gloves! I wasn't going to patch the patches! After all, there's a limit to my frugality! I went to the same place, "Bargain Bill's," and of all the luck, they had more of my kind of glove and here's my brand new pair. Don't you think they look "snazzy", as my 97 year old aunt used to say.
Because I'm so thrifty with my gloves, I indulged myself when I stopped at a quilt shop in a neighboring town the other day. I got these bundles of fat quarters, one to make some patriotic place mats for the Fourth and other times, and the other to make something Christmasy with next fall.
The shop had a huge sale the day before I got there and they'd not had time to clear away all the sale things, so of course, I had to dig through them. I got a bunch of fat quarters for $1 each and two 1 yard cuts of the blue and yellow fabric for $5 each. Don't know what I'll do with these fabrics, but they'll look good in my stash until I need them.
And lastly, I bought yardage of chicken and egg fabrics! I've never seen egg fabric before and the clerk said they'd had chicken wire fabric but it was sold out. :-( These will go into a table runner and place mats either for me or for the Etsy store.
So, with new gloves and more nice fabrics, I'm set to sew up a storm! Gotta get downstairs to my sewing room and make some progress on my latest project.
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