No Spend February Week 2. free day out in france & another finished quilt.

Join us on a day trip to the very old French village of Le Faou & I’ll also show you a special quilt I have finished.

The village we visited in todays video:

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Frugal Queen in France

We are a British couple living in Brittany on a budget.
Frugal recipes, days out, home renovations and day to day making do in France.

We’ll give you hints, tips, advice and an insight into our life in France.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to another video and if you’re here for the very first time it’s really nice to meet you I’m Jane and my husband Mike is behind the camera We’re British early retirees we have no debt and we’ve paid off the mortgage and we live a Thrifty

Frugal and money-saving life here in Britany in Northwest France and every Sunday we bring to you an aspect of our private life of the things that we’ve done this week and how it’s saved us money and how we’re going to share that with you let’s take a look at what we’ve been up

To so it’s no spend February for us and that means we obviously pay our bills we put fuel in the car we buy food but we don’t spend any money on anything else if it is in the budget for example paying the electric or you know all the

Usual things of course we pay everything like that if the pets got sick of course we would pay for that but there is no discretionary spending or extra spending like that in our no spend F and it’s going well so things that we’re going to share with you today uh we’re going to

Share with you that we had a free day out and let me talk about that in in a way of how we do that we love to go and visit places we’ve only lived here for four or five years and there are still places that we haven’t seen and we like

To go somewhere and have a look around and have a walk about and a look and it’s an ideal chance for us to do something that costs us nothing obviously it cost us fuel in our car but we stick to our fuel budget I’m going to

Share with you as well at the end of this video another finished Quil because that was our aim this month wasen to my aim this month was to finish three qus and I’ve got another one finished and I also have a little story with with you

For you at the end of the video that you might like let’s uh watch what we’ve been up To Well we are in Northwest France where we live and we are out on a walk this morning to to A really lovely uh estery and by the side of it is this gorgeous old town called laou and we’ve just arrived so first things we have to

Do is uh give the dogs a good walk so give them a and the tiny dogs so good walk for my dogs is about you know 20 minutes 20 minutes so here we are let me spin you around the church in the background the riv side

One of the things that we are talking between cars here absolutely totally adore about France it’s everywhere it’s completely uncommercial I keep thinking about UK out of p park I would have there would be cafes and visitor centers and there would be um boat trips goodness knows what

Else is here and here there is nothing lots of work going on excuse that everyday everyday people doing their everyday work and we are going to share our walk around this lovely old town with you what a nice day to get out and about let’s turn around to show these beautiful old

Boats look at those it’s lovely A [Applause] N The Aahah You In a no spend month we like to set ourselves challenges of things that we want to get done in that month and I wanted to get three quilts that I’ve got in process finished now I’ve completely finished to and I’ve got one more to go which I hope to finish within this month

Now I get asked two questions quite regularly about quilting the first question I’ve got asked is where in your budget do you fund quilting now in a spend month we give ourselves pocket money of which we can do whatever we want with it and we take €50 each and if

I want to spend that on cting material I do in a spend month I buy my fabric from different places to keep the cost low uh for example my batting I buy my batting on a complete roll so if I want to do that I will keep money back each and

Every month for a few months to buy a complete roll to make it cheaper I buy the majority of my fabric is secondhand and I buy that from charity shops or people destashing I will sometimes buy yardage fabric on the meter also from people who have got too much fabric and

They want to get rid of it and I find most of that on Facebook Marketplace the next question I get asked is Jane why do you not sell your quilts there’s a very easy answer for that there really isn’t a market for them here in France quilting and quilt

Making is not popular um if I search online there are very very few stores that sell quilt material there’s quilt material that you can buy in the UK US Canada Australia that doesn’t even they don’t even sell it here I can’t even buy it here so it’s not a popular craft here

And people are they don’t want them so and I’m a fast quilter and it takes me 50 hours from start to finish to make a full-size bed quilt and people will not pay for my time and on top of that you know in places like America people will

Pay $500 or $600 for a quilt something that they is part of their Heritage part of their culture something that is very very loved here they wouldn’t give me 50 for it it wouldn’t even cover my costs and you know I’m not going to be making my quilts and shipping them to America

Where people are you know there is already a massive Quilt Market so that’s the reason that I make them primarily to donate to raise money for charity and that’s why I don’t sell them the last time I shared a qu with you you said the kindest and loveliest

Things and we do appreciate apprciate that and you also said some of you said I would love to make quilts but I have no idea where to start it must be really difficult to make so I thought I would share with you a quilt that I made 12

Years ago and it’s still going strong I didn’t have a clue what I was doing I copied people on YouTube I i’ learned from books I learned from books from the library and here is a Quil and I made this in 2012 and I made it in red white

And blue fabrics for a variety of reasons it was the London Olympics that year so I made it in red white and blue it was also the Queen’s golden jubilee so she was 50 years uh the queen so that’s why I made it in red white and

Blue and on top of that it was a really special year for us because that was the year after 16 years of being together that we got married so it’s kind of a wedding quilt it’s the juilee quilt and it is my Olympic quilt and this year is

Another Olympic year so we were in the UK for the London Olympics and now we are in France for the Paris Olympics and I will show you our latest my latest and here is my latest red white and blue Quil the pattern is called Indigo Way by Bonnie Hunter it was one

Of her three patterns that she puts out thank you Bonnie Hunter for doing that um it took me about 50 hours to make this including quilting it so I’m I’m really really pleased with this but I need to say to you you know it’s taken

Me 12 years to get to to this standard and anybody out there who’s a beginner and you’re quilting for the first time keep at it you will get better a lot of this is thrifted fabric um I’ll get mik to bring look at this so I keep thinking to myself pillow case

Pillowcase sheet which takes up a lot of this quilt uh the red fabric is something out the stash that I’d had for years on end and on the back of this this is a vintage french bed sheet so that’s how I I keep the cost of my

Quilting down so there you go that’s another finish this month come back in a week’s time for my next finish or at least my progress towards the Finish thank you so much for watching thanks to everybody who likes comments subscribers all subscribers old and new the channel is growing thanks to all of

You we’ll see you soon bye for now Sh