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Did you miss me? T.T.T. 1st December, Fresh Sewing Day!
Can you believe it's December?! How exciting! Here's a mosaic of my November makes that I'm linking up to Lynne's Fresh Sewing Day at Lily's Quilts, hop over and join in.
I thought I'd done more but since we've been hit by flu I guess I haven't finished as many things as I'd like. I'm definitely going to remedy that this month :)
**Warning** I've got quite a bit to show you so this may be another long one but I'll keep it as short as I can ;)
Firstly I received some lovely post last week:
These are the goodies I got sent from Korbond as a giveaway on The Sewing Directory. I have to say I'm thrilled with everything I've used so far, those scissors are particularly fantastic! I know it will all be very useful and it arrived so quickly. These products are available at my local Tesco so I'm sure you can get hold of them easily.
Then I got the MOST AMAZING package from the wonderful Madame Samm that I won on her slightly bonkers and extraordinary Wantobe Quilters giveaway. She truly is spectacular! She was more than generous and I'm still grinning as I plot what I will make:
Then there was one more package. I took part in a rainbow colour charm swap with the lovely Robyn at Bolo Heads. She had a hard time of it with wrong addresses, drop outs etc but she did great :) and I'm delighted with my charms! This was my first swap and I will definitely do one again (hopefully with Robyn if she'll let me!!). It's so exciting looking through all those different fabrics and I already have 2 quilts planned with mine :)
There are some that are fugly and some that are pretty and some that I downright love:
I don't know what fabric this is but I think it's bright, retro feel is just perfect! I'm saving these until I've got all my Christmas projects done.
I'm getting there with my Drunkard's Path QAL and am quilting it in concentric circles after being inspired by Heather at Crafting... and her gorgeous cushion! I've been using my bloody quilting guide thingy again but this time I've got it sussed:
No matter what I did it wriggled around so I'm using bobbins (can add or take them away depending on the width of quilting required) and a rawl plug (it's that grey thing sticking out on the left of the foot) and this time it's going nowhere. I think I'm a genius. I might get a copyright.
I'm also making progress on a quilt for my friend's son, using fabric I've shown you before (sorry for the sideways shot):
This came together fast thanks to chain piecing! And is now basted, ready to be quilted. Anyone got any suggestions for a name for this quilt?
Last week was my daughter's birthday, she's officially terrible 2 (I'm shaking my head in despair), my Auntie gave me these fun fabrics to make things with! I'm going for two cushions with the Hungry Caterpillar fabric (eventually!) and a great DIY advent calendar:
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| I adore this funny fabric holding man more than I can express |
Well last night I realised it was the end of November so I stayed up and made this!
It was very easy to make and really fun! It's all filled with treats now, so the son will be happy when he gets back from school! I just hope I've hung it high enough that they can't steal them all!!
I even practiced some fmq and did some swirly loopy quilting :)
This has totally got me feeling all Christmassy!! So much so I'm going to go get the decorations out of the attic and decorate this afternoon :) Thinking of Christmas, head over to makingrebeccalynne for Thursday Think Tank, she has some great ideas to share!
p.s. wish me luck on that stupid attic pull out ladder, I always keep my mobile in my pocket when I go up there in case I fall. What I'll do for decorations?!
Dotty Simple Stripes Quilt
I don't really like Monday, except when I finish a quilt!!
As I think it's rather modern I'm linking up to Sew Modern Monday at Canoe Ridge Creations.
This is for my pregnant friend, I was going for unisex and I hope this will be ok! The quilt is based on Amy Smart of Diary of a Quilter's pattern Simple Stripes Quilt. It turned out I didn't actually have enough fabric to make the whole quilt so I used six of the blocks and made some borders. I think it looks ok though!
The finished quilt is 36x46". I added an inner border 3.23" wide and used 28 6x6" squares round the edge for the outer border, I did need to trim my corners and they didn't match up perfectly but I wanted to use those cute rabbits in kimonos!!
I love the brightness and the fun fabrics of this quilt, I was also glad to get away from all the pink I've been using!
I backed it using a lovely dotty flannel, which is really soft and goes well with the top:
I quilted it really simply on the diagonal. There's so much going on I didn't think it could stand any of my fmq practice!!
I ran outside in between drizzle to get these pictures and, of course, my daughter followed and wanted to point out all the pictures she liked on the quilt:
Although I'm pleased with the quilting I'm still not sure the easiest way to do lines like this. I have a walking foot guide thingy but there's NO WAY that thing wouldn't jiggle all over the place - how do you stop them from moving?? Here's what I did:
I had to strap that sucker down to stop it from sliding around!! If I was a perfectionist this wouldn't work but thankfully I'm not (ok, not always!) and it did the job well enough for me.
Any tips please let me know... (I'm incredibly impatient so I can't be bothered marking etc, just wondering if people use these guides and how they get them to work?!!)
I'm also linking up to Making Christmas over at Rainbow Hare Quilts, I'm giving it to my friend on Wednesday although the baby is due in December and it's one more project crossed off my list!
As I think it's rather modern I'm linking up to Sew Modern Monday at Canoe Ridge Creations.
This is for my pregnant friend, I was going for unisex and I hope this will be ok! The quilt is based on Amy Smart of Diary of a Quilter's pattern Simple Stripes Quilt. It turned out I didn't actually have enough fabric to make the whole quilt so I used six of the blocks and made some borders. I think it looks ok though!
The finished quilt is 36x46". I added an inner border 3.23" wide and used 28 6x6" squares round the edge for the outer border, I did need to trim my corners and they didn't match up perfectly but I wanted to use those cute rabbits in kimonos!!
I love the brightness and the fun fabrics of this quilt, I was also glad to get away from all the pink I've been using!
I backed it using a lovely dotty flannel, which is really soft and goes well with the top:
I ran outside in between drizzle to get these pictures and, of course, my daughter followed and wanted to point out all the pictures she liked on the quilt:
Although I'm pleased with the quilting I'm still not sure the easiest way to do lines like this. I have a walking foot guide thingy but there's NO WAY that thing wouldn't jiggle all over the place - how do you stop them from moving?? Here's what I did:
I had to strap that sucker down to stop it from sliding around!! If I was a perfectionist this wouldn't work but thankfully I'm not (ok, not always!) and it did the job well enough for me.
Any tips please let me know... (I'm incredibly impatient so I can't be bothered marking etc, just wondering if people use these guides and how they get them to work?!!)
I'm also linking up to Making Christmas over at Rainbow Hare Quilts, I'm giving it to my friend on Wednesday although the baby is due in December and it's one more project crossed off my list!
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