Hi everyone.

Greetings from the UK.

I am the Frugal Queen you've all been talking about and I would like to thank all of you who clicked on my link and visited my blog. I have only been quilting for about a year and I'm already on my 5th quilt. I am addicted. I now make them to give away as gifts and love to use recycled men's shirts to make them. I have recently bought a new sewing machine as, up until recently, I only had the most basic £50 sewing machine. I am learning free motion quilting and I've started attending workshops to learn to make new blocks, I'm even holding workshops of my own to pass on everything I've learnt so far. I'm frugal in all aspects of life because I've learnt to be happier with less and content with life.

I love the message boards, the discussions and to be in the midst of all you wonderful quilters.

Drop by and see me at http://frugalincornwall.blogspot.co....enerosity.html and have a look round whilst you're there. I'm also up for blogger of the year and would appreciate any votes xxx Love Froogs

I have one machine 10 years old, sometimes uses scissors to cut out, make a lot of own patterns, (or redo old ones) use old clothes to make new clothes for me and reuse anything that I can to make things with. I prefer to use my stash to make things with and seem to have scraps multiply on me. HAve not bought fabric just to buy because I like it, so must have a cuarrent project to work on in orfer to buy.

I am not the most frugal, but I did make a very warm quilt for about $15. I used my sons old flannel shirts that were given to us, I used batting from previous projects and I used thread from previous projects. I also used the buttons from the shirts for other things. It was a rag quilt with back and front from the flannel and a layer of batting. Very warm and comfy. :)

When I started coming to this website someone had posted that they cut their fabric with a paring knife; couldn't have been serious, right?

Talking about frugal, any fans of Joann's Red Tag sale?

I might be a member of the family too, as I dearly love my plants and quilty stuff!! Roses, iris, daylilys, hosta, and huchera....... ah what is it about these wonderful plants that pulls us to them? I must be the baby sister tho, I can't begin to compete in sheer numbers of each variety!!

Frugal means "never buying anything that isn't on sale or you don't have a coupon for".

With that said, I mostly sew on a singer 401a that was given to me. My cutting table is an old table that my son brought home because his friend's dad was going to throw it out. I do have two rotary cutters, one big, one little and 2 rulers, big and little, one cutting mat, one set of 3 pair of sizzers (cost me $4 at Walmart) and one iron and iron board. If you look at most of my recent quilts, you will find bits of fabric from my past quilts.

Now, for the bad part. I have been bitten by the vintage/antique sewing machine bug. I have a White treadle that I've been experimenting with and love it. I have a 99k crank just in case the zombies hit and I have to run. I can take the 99k with me and keep sewing. I have a 99k in a cabinet, just because she was cute. I have a 15-90 clone, cause she's blue. A white machine in a martha washington cabinet that needs restored. A $10 dressmaker that was suppose to be broken. I bought it for the cabinet and the machine now works and last but not least a little black Featherweight cause she was born the same year as me.

I started out that way. I raided the linen closet for sheets to ue as material., and made my first two quilts by hand.
Two years later my daughter found an old singer at a thrift store and paid a whole six dollars for it.I now have three sewing machine and lots of rullers.
I don't think in the long term quilting can be called a frugal undertaking. Most quilters are always upgrading in equipment and fabric.

I heard a story of a lady going in and wanted 4" of fabric cut LOL

I forgot to add when talking about frugal, you must include time spent on a project. The most expensive quilts for sale are the ones where a person spent two to five days taking apart clothes, cuting the pieces and sewing them together to make larger pieces. Unless you have the patience, it is cheaper to by material at shops, and cheaper in time when it comes to pieceing the quilt.