Richmond and Kew quilters has a challenge that started a few months ago - we were given a random animal “pin” badge and were challenged to make an A3 quilt inspired by the pin.
I got a stag: a beautiful beast that we can sometimes see with a herd of deer in Windsor Great Park which is a few miles away. The park isn’t very distinctive but it incorporates The Long Walk which is very distinctive. I designed the castle for the embroidery machine to stitch (in two hoopings, that was fun to match up) then added the start of the Great Walk and the trees. I did try machine stitching the trees but decided to hand stitch instead ...
And here is the ready-apart-from-binding result
My other sewing this week was close to (are you sitting down?) dressmaking. I had a sweatshirt that was too short. I bought some extra red fabric and replaced the lower 8 inches of grey with 14 inches or so of red. I’m rather chuffed with the result
However it’s not perfect and I have learned quite a bit ...
I learned that rather than zigzagging the hem then stitching it down it would have been better to find a double needle and top stitch that way - it would have saved time and would have stopped the hem edge flipping out.
I learnt that it worked well to join the raw edges about 1/2” from the edge, zigzag the raw edges and then top stitch the seam alliance down
And I learnt that sweatshirt fabric has selvedge edges - doh! 🤦🏼♀️ I’ll do better next time!
I started this blog for me - it expanded to show BFF Jackie what I was doing - and a few others have invited themselves too - everybody welcome! Mostly about patchwork, with random comments about embroidery, family and life in general, come on in, put your feet up, and I'll put the [virtual] kettle on.
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