of sewing
Nothing too fancy, just a bit of mindless sewing, interspersed with cutting and pressing:
These blocks will become a cuddle blanket for the living room (I've been collecting dark reds for ages, and now that I'm cutting into them it occurs to me I may have too many!!!)
And these pink and greens have been half square triangles for ages, but are finally being assembled into pinwheels ready for the school's next 'Pink Day' raffle, raising money for the local breast cancer unit
Hope you all had a good weekend
These blocks will become a cuddle blanket for the living room (I've been collecting dark reds for ages, and now that I'm cutting into them it occurs to me I may have too many!!!)
And these pink and greens have been half square triangles for ages, but are finally being assembled into pinwheels ready for the school's next 'Pink Day' raffle, raising money for the local breast cancer unit
more mindless sewing
I have carried on with the dark red blocks and the pink and green pinwheels today.
I've got 48 red blocks, and I think it will work to arrange them on point (at 45 degrees) - I'll lay them out on my 'design bed' tomorrow and see if they work as I expect
I have done the pinwheels: most are stitched and pressed, a few just need the final seam sewing. I seem to have ended up with 13 of these which is NO good for a quilt. I guess it will be a 3 x 4 quilt with one block in the orphan drawer!
I also made things with these three fabrics, but they are being posted as surprises, so no details about what they are or who they are for until after they have been received!
I've got 48 red blocks, and I think it will work to arrange them on point (at 45 degrees) - I'll lay them out on my 'design bed' tomorrow and see if they work as I expect
I have done the pinwheels: most are stitched and pressed, a few just need the final seam sewing. I seem to have ended up with 13 of these which is NO good for a quilt. I guess it will be a 3 x 4 quilt with one block in the orphan drawer!
I also made things with these three fabrics, but they are being posted as surprises, so no details about what they are or who they are for until after they have been received!
Design Bed problems
I tried to arrange the red blocks today, but the largest (clear) horizontal surface surface at home is my bed - and that isn't big enough to lay out all the blocks! So the red "Cricket Stumps" quilt will have to wait until I can either get to mum's or to my nearest patchwork workroom.
I did spend a bit of time preparing some cotton for a quilt project a friend is planning. I cut the cotton into 8 inch squares and have bundled them up with fabric pens for people to decorate before I get them back to join together.
Hopefully nothing significant will be lost in the seam allowance .... do you think they'll get the message!
I did spend a bit of time preparing some cotton for a quilt project a friend is planning. I cut the cotton into 8 inch squares and have bundled them up with fabric pens for people to decorate before I get them back to join together.
Hopefully nothing significant will be lost in the seam allowance .... do you think they'll get the message!
MORE cutting and sewing
I'm obviously in the mood for piecing at the moment. (If you saw that amount of stuff that husband has on the dining table you would see why I'm not basting anything at the moment!)
I have been asked to make two quilts (which I will get paid for :-) for babies due about Christmas time. One will be a boy, so blue please, and the other will be a surprise, so creams for that one. I have an idea for the cream (but no fabric) I saw a vanishing 9 patch where the un-cut squares were 9 patches, or pinwheels, or HSTs so I think that will be the idea for that one.
For the blue quilt, I took a big gulp and started to cut into the Sweetwater Pure fabrics I got a while ago (get me, quoting fabric design names!)
The tops have been sewn into strips, not flimsies, as I will join the strips to each other and to the wadding and backing as part of the basting / quilting stage. (Have a look at this post to follow my lazy quilt as you go shortcut). Most of my recent quilts have gone straight onto a fleece blanket, but these two will have wadding and backing, so I just have to go to the shop to get the creams and the backing fabric - such a shame!!!
I have been asked to make two quilts (which I will get paid for :-) for babies due about Christmas time. One will be a boy, so blue please, and the other will be a surprise, so creams for that one. I have an idea for the cream (but no fabric) I saw a vanishing 9 patch where the un-cut squares were 9 patches, or pinwheels, or HSTs so I think that will be the idea for that one.
For the blue quilt, I took a big gulp and started to cut into the Sweetwater Pure fabrics I got a while ago (get me, quoting fabric design names!)
There was enough for two quilt tops, each about a metre square, of a random brick wall design
MORE piecing
I usually buy fabric with a vague idea as to how I'll use it, then change my mind several times, then change my mind again . . .you get the picture!
BUT . . . as soon as I saw these two fabrics I KNEW what I was going to make with them, and yesterday I got the urge!
I am so in love with this combination, but have no idea what to call it, or what to do with it. Hopefully someone will have a baby girl soon!!! and hopefully a better name than "Brown & Flowers Disappearing 9 Patch" will occur to me!!!
Meanwhile - Jackie - I've run out of the fabric, if you are seeing AnneMarie before you come over can you get me a yard of the brown, and half a yard of the flowers for the borders and the binding, pretty please
BUT . . . as soon as I saw these two fabrics I KNEW what I was going to make with them, and yesterday I got the urge!
The fabric got
cut into 6 inch squares,
stitched into Nine Patches,
cut into quarters,
stitched back together again
again
and again
and again,
and just look at the scrummy yumminess that resulted!!!
I am so in love with this combination, but have no idea what to call it, or what to do with it. Hopefully someone will have a baby girl soon!!! and hopefully a better name than "Brown & Flowers Disappearing 9 Patch" will occur to me!!!
Meanwhile - Jackie - I've run out of the fabric, if you are seeing AnneMarie before you come over can you get me a yard of the brown, and half a yard of the flowers for the borders and the binding, pretty please
Happy Birthday to Me!
Had a lovely day today: presses from mum and from Brian this morning, then we, and Niki went to Greenwich to visit Lisa where I got more pressies from the girls, plus a scrummy lunch in the sun at the side of the Thames, followed by a shopping spree in the Market, and meeting Verity - a fab day!
I'm posting this on the iPad, and the photos are on the phone, so this could be just words, but photos will follow when I come to grips with blogging while the PC is switched off!! Photos now added (obviously, but I had to resort to switching on the PC!!!)
From Brian I got a sonic cleaner for jewellery etc
And from mum I got a lovely scarf and some Troll earrings (just trying to work out how they work - do any of you know?)
Lisa got me a pretty bead necklace and had one of her owls framed for me, and Niki gave me a much needed (and perfect) new purse. Between them they gave me solution to my quest to find the perfect butter dish!!
The lovely Plum (with whom I share a birthday :-) made me some fab beaded earrings - with a pair of scissors on them! They are great! Thank you Plum
It was great to meet Verity (miss Ginger makes) at the Market, and I had to buy just a few bits of scrummy fabric from her!
Lovely day - thank you all ! ! ! !
The outside of the Painted Hall at Greenwich (and my thumb!!!)
From Brian I got a sonic cleaner for jewellery etc
The lovely Plum (with whom I share a birthday :-) made me some fab beaded earrings - with a pair of scissors on them! They are great! Thank you Plum
Lovely day - thank you all ! ! ! !
Lucky lucky me
I was so caught up in making things for my Goodie Swap partners, I'd sort of forgotten that I would also receive two packages. Well one has arrived . . .
Beautifully wrapped (but not for long . . .
Just look at the yummy goodies my partner Caroline sent me: as well as the Mug Rug, she made a lovely little pin cushion (much needed) and the sweetest little pouch with . . . a zip!!! I am so in awe of anyone who can do zips!
Here is a close up of the Mug Rug - I love the rainbow circles, and the spotty binding, and the quilting is great
Thank you Caroline, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I love it all
I haven't been at the computer or the sewing machine much - I was offered permanent work at the school I've been temping at, but it includes earlier mornings and learning a new computer system, so my brain has been reeling this week, and I've mostly just crashed in front of the TV of an evening.
I have a growing pile of strips waiting to be basted, but I loved the brown flowers (to be called Flower to the Power of 9, or
Beautifully wrapped (but not for long . . .
Just look at the yummy goodies my partner Caroline sent me: as well as the Mug Rug, she made a lovely little pin cushion (much needed) and the sweetest little pouch with . . . a zip!!! I am so in awe of anyone who can do zips!
Here is a close up of the Mug Rug - I love the rainbow circles, and the spotty binding, and the quilting is great
Thank you Caroline, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I love it all
I haven't been at the computer or the sewing machine much - I was offered permanent work at the school I've been temping at, but it includes earlier mornings and learning a new computer system, so my brain has been reeling this week, and I've mostly just crashed in front of the TV of an evening.
I have a growing pile of strips waiting to be basted, but I loved the brown flowers (to be called Flower to the Power of 9, or
9
Flower
(not easy to do on Blogger, but mathematical minds will understand the pun!) Thanks to Katy at the littlest thistle who came up with the name, so I started another version of it:
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thanks for commenting: I don't always get notified that you left a post, so apologies if I don't respond