finished a heart garland with my daughter yesterday
took most of the day; but still preferable to her slouching in front of TV all day whilst I moan! She's 13 in January and she's read the book on how to be a teen. I myself subscribe to
' Over Anxious Mother ' magazine as read by Marge on the Simpsons
lots of arguing, but it was lovely to do something with her
she stuck to stuffing and me to sewing in the end
tonight just made an extra heart for my sister Katharine who we are looking forwards to seeing tomorrow; something very nice about a stuffed decoration, just want to reach out and squidge it!
Phew!
This quilt was beginning to take over my flat
I have beaten it into submission and bound it tonight
Just took delivery of some lovely flannels from fabric.com that I had planned to make some small cuddly quilts for the winter.
This quilt is simply made from two 2 yard pieces of flannel with warm and natural batting
The design is michael miller play dot sea, I'm into pale blues and browns at the moment.
Backing is a snowflake print cream flannel.The flannel, although lovely and soft, is easily damaged ( as I found when removing my microtacks) so I bordered with a normal cotton overlaid with a silver print for a bit more strength.
Used all my kate spain flurry scraps now
quilted the left hand one with loose vermicelli pattern. On the right I used close quilting with some embroidery stitches on my machine I haven't used before ( most of them ! ) I love the feel of close quilting ; these little mats are a fun way of trying out new techniques and stitches , and having something useful at the end.
I think they will go to mum to use for her flower vases.
Hope all your christmas projects are going well?
Just won 3 lovely quilting books for the school of stitched textiles guy fawkes challenge
hurray!
Also had a lovely meal at jamie oliver's new italian restaurant in bluewater; best ever olives, tapenade and music bread.......chicken liver tortellini in sage and butter........cherry, salted caramel and strawberry cream ice creams with honey comb topping........all a bargain as 50% off as it was a training evening, and they did well.
This one is for me
getting the borders on now to make it large enough for bed
found some volcanic looking red blender in my stash
reckon another 2 inch patterned border, then some more red blender should do it
better leave it alone now as its late and there's a baby sleeping next door....better not let the Pfaff pound on into the night!
Love sequins, but never sewn with them.
Worried about how to machine sew them
In the end just used a new sharp needle and sewed straight down the middle of the strand
Hopefully they will be secure enough to cope with washing
Any other advice re sewing sequins on ? some mentioned zigzag stitch...would that make them more secure and less likely to catch?
finally finished nephews quilt, decided to bind it in grey, sash it in black to make it a little bit more boyish....
