I Love the Salvation Army!

I love Salvation Army. My "local" store (local in quotations because it still takes me an hour to get there) has 50% Fridays. Since I had to be in that area anyway today I shopped and SCORED! Check it out:

Sheets, sheets and more sheets from Salvation Army

Remember my quilt in progress? This will be the backing. Yay!

Rose printed cotton sheet

Rose printed cotton sheet

This map sheet is to die for!!

Tommy Bahama bed sheet from Salvation Army

I also found this blazer for five bucks. So cute!! I think I am going to embroider some super adorable design on it and likely put it for sale in my Etsy shop.

White blazer

White blazer

The only thing I didn't photograph was a twin sized mattress cover. If I don't use for Jezebel (the motor home) then it will go on my daughter's bed.

This entire lot cost me a whopping 

$15.55

What did I say? Score, right??

Quilt ~ In Progress

The inspiration:

Denim Blanket from MintBasil

The embroidery (project in progress):

Let's all remember here that I was inspired by the above quilt (as well as others) but have no intentions to try to copy it.....

Following are a few quilt squares that I have been making. My idea is to hand embroider a few, machine sew most of them and sew them together with the edges out for the frayed look. I am sewing together two denim squares, 7" x 7", with no batting. My intent is that the back denim will serve as the batting material (ever held a denim quilt? They're heavy) and when it's all done, I will use a cute cotton sheet, hopefully vintage and floral,  for a solid backing. We'll see how it goes.....

Embroidered quilt square

Embroidered quilt square

Embroidered quilt square

Embroidered quilt square

Embroidered quilt square

Embroidered quilt square

Embroidered quilt square