Sunday, August 29, 2021

Charity Lap Quilt & Small Wren Bag

Since my last post I have made a charity quilt from supplies in my stash.
Our quilt group asks each of us to donate one lap quilt each year.
Another quilt group I have been visiting had received many containers of scrap fabric and
I impulsively took a stack of fat quarters and some remnants that looked like yardage.


I used the fat quarters to make a rail fence lap quilt.
The colors are not quite true but one of the light fabrics is a purple and green floral.


There were two remnants of this yellow floral.
I sewed two similar lengths together for the backing.


Just making sure the back was big enough.
The green border picks up the green in front and back.


The binding was another green print.


Above is a back view after trimming.
I quilted it on my domestic sewing machine.


View of the front after trimming.
Quilted in the ditch vertically and horizontally, then on one diagonal.

Below is a small Wren bag made from the leftovers of Miss Ava's princess dress.
The handles were extras from another bag. (Somehow I cut too many handles.)


After making two middle size bags I investigated another way to finish the lining.
This time I sewed the bottom on last. It was much easier to sew the sides and zipper section.


The birthday girl is going to be 5.
She is going to school every day and I thought a cute hand sanitizer unicorn would be useful.


I added a strap to the bag so she can be hands-free.
This pic shows the matching dress.
Inside I made a sunglasses case and tissue holder.


More hand sanitizer choices.
Too many for me.


Hope you are well and safe where ever you are.
We are waiting for hurricane Ida to come ashore.
Linking up with Peacock Party if I am not too late.



 





 

Saturday, August 14, 2021

August Sewing List

The first days of August have flown by. 
I have been working on sewing for grands. 
This week I completed these two items.


First finish was this romper/short overall for baby Kenton.
He is only 10 months old but wearing 18 and 24 month sizes.
I made the size 2 to be sure it will fit.
I altered the pattern to be fully lined and had no problem until I sewed the leg openings.


A little ripping and rethinking how to finish with snap tape.
I made this pattern many times when sewing for this guy's father.
Happy with the finish.


Little Miss Ava requested this navy check fabric when she saw the photo of the Violette Field Threads
pattern. This is the Harriet pattern. I had not made this one before.
It has a sort of circle skirt that was interesting to cut out.
Above shows the button shoulder tabs.


The dress was not hard to construct.
I washed and ironed the fabric before cutting out the pattern.


Look how the side seam lined up! 
Serendipity... and the other side is almost matching.
When I cut out the two skirt pieces I tried to line up the pattern at the same spot on the fabric.

Two more dresses to go for Miss Ava's birthday in a few weeks.

This week I also hand stitched the binding in the bag shown below.
My poor fingers hurt when I finished. 
I was wishing for a thimble or something to help push the needle through the thick places.


Linking with Wendy.
Have a good week!