When I went down to the sewing room today, this was as far as I had sewn on DD's bed quilt.
I needed to empty long arm bobbins so I could quilt the next QOV, but in order to do that...I needed to empty bobbins for my Brother piecing machine. I own about 10 long arm bobbins and 24 Brother bobbins. Whatever bits of thread are leftover from long arming, I use those to piece my quilt tops. So I set to work on sewing together my leader/enders two patches into 4 patches when I had a few moments to spare.
I've ended up with a pretty nice pile of 4 patches and enough empty long arm bobbins to quilt another QOV!
My DD is here! So, I've been spending time with her!
I did manage to quilt down another Casual Quilters QOV.
Batch 3 Quilt 4
DD is visiting from school! So not a whole lot of sewing or quilting is happening!
I did quilt down three of the current batch of Casual Quilters QOV's.
Batch 3 Quilt 1:
So, I brought a couple of pillows at Wal*mart for Christmas. One was really cute and the other, well, meh. The plan was to re-do the meh one, re-use the fabric and pillow insert. I found a tea towel that I liked and I was off to the races!
I started to deconstruct the pillow. The fabric was a very coarse, very loose weave. Inside was not a pillow form but this awful looking grayish blackish stuffing!
YIKES! Onto plan B! I sewed this back together!
I trimmed up the towel and found a suitable plaid in the Christmas bin and TA-DA!
My Christmas pillow makeover was complete. Here is the front.
Here is the back. I made it so the entire pillow just slips inside the Merry Michigan case. I didn't even bother to line up the plaid! LOL. I'm sure there are lots of tutorials out on the web but I just winged it from my memory bank...
I've also been stuck on the idea of bird seed wreaths, scouring Pinterest for ideas. I finally gave a recipe a try. I think I did something wrong as it was so thick and gooey that I kept adding water to get the flour to dissolve. I'm going to try another recipe as I want to make one to have on inventory in case the neighbor brings over a gift...then I have something for her. It's my first Christmas in this house so I'm not really sure 'how' the neighbors celebrate!
I've been wanting to make myself a new apron. I thought since I had quite a bit of the border printed Christmas fabric, I thought why not Christmas?
I used another Groovy Girl pattern circa 2010.
Not a whole lot happening in the sewing room this week. 😞
I did make progress on some of my Christmas items!
I did make two medium Traveling Totes. I used a Christmas print that my MIL had given me many years ago with a wide border. I checked and a bottle of wine will fit into this tote bag. My family canceled our sibling Christmas celebration due to COVID, so now I'm two gift bags ahead. We are hoping summer 2021 will be a safe time to meet up again. I have 5 siblings and numerous nieces, nephews and even great nieces and nephews! We are planning on having a little chat via Zoom on Christmas Eve when we normally get together.
pattern credit: Atkinson Design circa 2010 Groovy Girls Sewing Club
I actually made these totes about 10 years ago to the day! I blogged about the bags here.
Linking up with Sarah at Whoop! Whoop! and Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday
DS asked for a few custom bags for his gf. A peak into the stash revealed that I needed more specialty fabric so off I ventured to a new to me quilt shop.
Quilted, bound and on the bed!
Once I made my flying pinwheel row (blogged here), the sewing of the planks for my quilt went really fast. I simply sewed the 3.5 inch strips of random lengths end to end and cut at approximately 93 inches. I then sewed the rows together. As you might guess, I didn't pay real close attention and let the fabric fall where it may.
Here it is pinned to the design wall.
\I estimated the number of strips pretty close! All I had leftover was this 3 inch piece of decapitated carolers! There are a few 'things' I might change but overall, I'm pretty happy with it. The best part is that all the fabric is from stash.
