Small bits of sewing

I started the background for a fabric collage mini quilt that has been on my mind.

The greens were sorted and sewn together. I cut some butcher paper as a base pattern.

More to come.

This afternoon I made a little fabric basket.

Fairly easy pattern from We All Sew.

Now my smocked eggs have a holiday home.

I think the handle is too long so I tucked it in and put the eggs on top of it.

Ready for Easter.

This is the block of the month for Uncommon Threads Quilt Guild.

I didn't pick up a block kit so I used stash fabric in similar colors.

I took this photo and changed it to gray scale to find which batik was the darkest.

Here is the finished block.

I made another project bag.

Each one is a little easier to make.

Here is one I posted in another post.

This week it has finally seemed like spring here.

NYC family is coming to visit in two weeks.

What's on the agenda for your week?

 

On the work table this week

My wool felt sampler is finished.

I wrote about that in another post.

I'm going to share it at Uncommon Threads Quilt Guild at the end of the month.

I have cut five panels and started stitching this fabric into curtains for our downstairs living area.

The sooner they are finished the sooner I can get back to sewing quilty things.

As I straightened up my thread and looked at future projects I kept thinking about project bags.

It only takes 3 fat quarters to make an 11" X 18" project bag.

I have lots of zippers and more than a yard of mesh.

So.... I made a new project bag.

The baby elephant fabric was calling to me.

I thought it was a fat quarter but instead it was WOF quarter yard.

No problem - worked around that.

Pink, gray, and yellow.

This time I rounded the corners.

The binding is bias cut and sewed up fantastic.

My TV watching handwork is hand quilting My Small World.

No plan. Just free form quilting.

Maybe it will be finished by Show n Tell at quilt guild, too.

Have a good week!

 

Wool sampler finished

 Once again I have written a whole blog on the wrong blog. Please go here to read about the sampler.

Here are the stitches used each day.

My circles are numbered right to left starting at the top right.

1. Blanket stitch

2. Fly stitch and a button

3. Detached chain, bouillion, French knots

4. Added felt shapes with straight stitches and French knots

5. Sheaf stitch, chain stitches, asterisk, knots

6.  Same stitch with different numbers of floss - fly stitches

7. Blanket stitch, pistil, straight stitch, back stitch, lazy daisy

8. Include beads or found object

9. Padded satin stitch

10. Try a stitch you've wanted to learn - woven picot

11. Chain stitch variation

12. Beads and French knots

13. Oyster stitch

14. Use an additional felt shape for reverse applique

15. Fishbone stitch

16. Seed stitch and beads

17. Use 5 different stitches - I used running, detached chain, French knot, woven circle, stem

18. Use on stitch with buttons and/or beads

19. Include pistil stitch and stem stitch

20. Couching stitch

21. Rosette chain stitch

22. Basque stitch running stitch whipped and threaded running stitch

23. Add two additional felt shapes. Choose your own stitches.

24. Spider wheel rose

25. Fern stitch

26. Whipped back stitch. Optional beads.

27. Add a trim like rickrack, ribbon, or lace.

28. Cross stitches

29. Wheat ear and Spanish knotted feather

30. Use 4 different stitches of your choice - blanket, backstitch, sheaf, beaded backstitch

It was fun. I learned new stitches and improved my understanding of applique on wool felt.

Sewing update

This week I've sewn all types of things.

I made myself a top out of some lovely Victoria Findley Wolfe fabric.

I didn't exactly follow the directions in the pattern.

I changed the sleeve length and sewed out of order on the sleeves.

Finally got a photo of Ava's penguin in the PJ's we made a few weeks ago.

Penguin was too round for the pants, but the top is great as a nightgown.

A dress for Ava from Violet Field Thread's Aspen pattern.

I made it sleeveless and fully lined the top.

Queen of Hearts Stay at Home Round Robin is quilted, bound, and labeled.

More pictures in the previous post.

I love the stamp fabric for the backing.

No telling how old this fabric is.

I found it at a stash sell-off this past fall.

Another dress for Ava.

This is a cotton knit made from VFT's Teagan pattern.

A friend asked me to make sleep masks for her mom.

Our daffodils are blooming!

This week I hope to finish this embroidery project.

Check back next week end.

Happy sewing.

 

Queen of Hearts SAHRR Finished

Lots of photos of my finished wall hanging - Queen of Hearts

I finished the Stay at Home Round Robin today when I sewed the label and binding.

The quilting was done on my Pfaff 1473 using the walking foot/even feed feature.

I echo quilted around the center heart.

The rest of the quilt is done with stitch in the ditch vertical lines and other vertical quilting.

The only fabric bought for this quilt was the binding fabric.

Everything else was in my stash.

I used a permanent gel roller to write the label.

Ironed to set the ink.

I have a stack of 5" white squares that I use for labels.

Most of the time I make a triangle label but this time I had too much to write for a triangle.

The backing fabric came from a charity fabric sale last fall.

I didn't have a project for it but really liked the stamps.

I sewed the binding on the back first then ironed the binding and clipped it to the front.

Overload of pics but I want to document this fun quilt along.

Thanks all of the online quilt bloggers who contributed to this project.

 

SAHRR Flimsy is finished!

The final round is pinwheel block.

I have used fat quarters for all of the rounds.

That means as the rounds got larger I have had to be very careful cutting fabric.

I used Bonnie Hunter's Essential Triangle Tool to make the half squares for the pinwheels.

It took 1.5 inch strips with very little waste.

My original idea for the final round was to make piano keys with all the leftover fabric.

Instead I used some of each fabric in the pinwheels with a new black print in the mix.

I decided to make 24 pinwheels to stretch that black print fat quarter.

First the squares were chain pieced in groups of four.

That way the squares that went together were sewn together in a line.

After I chain sewed the squares in pairs, clipping between pairs, they were ready to sew as pinwheels.

Mini clips were very handy in keeping blocks together.

Chain piecing was quick and easy.

I thought it would take 12 pinwheels per side.

Oops! I only needed eleven per side.

The extra pinwheels went to the top and bottom.

The square in a square teacups from the 5th round went in the corners.

The flimsy is a little wavy.

Hope it will quilt out.

Next up-

Quilt sandwich, quilting, and binding.

The red check is the binding.

The postage stamp print is the backing.

Finished size is about 34" X 35".

Look for the final finish soon.