Nov 17
I love how this looks, but was not ready to quilt it yet. I felt I needed a practice on something smaller before tackling something king-size! This was the beginning of March, before lockdown… it is now November and I haven’t tackled it yet 🙁 Practice quilting coming up…
Feb 25
Putting together the blocks! So far I have sewn 5 strips of triangles together, but not the strips to each other yet. I need to line them all up together first and then fill in the gaps at the end that will be trimmed down. Seams are ironed upwards for one strip and then down …
Feb 25
Construction of a block. This is an ‘A’ block for my pattern. It will point to the right, with the light colour at the bottom. I start with a pile of the 3 fabric trapeziums (in light, medium and dark), and triangles. First align the triangle, right sides together to the right of the ‘light’ …
Feb 24
This is a major project!! I have been meaning to make a patchwork quilt since we bought our bed 4 years ago. In the showroom the beds had lovely patchwork quilts on them. I did attempt some patchwork then, but have never had the inspiration or time or patience or inclination to do a full …
Feb 24
I wear my first one of these (see Christmas 2018 post) a LOT (although the gold sparkle has rubbed off a lot, which is disappointing). I had bought some tartan style fabric LAST Christmas, for going away to Scotland, and never got round to using it. Now was the time to try and get this …
Feb 24
I love an excuse to dress up, and to sew, so the chance to go to another RAF AC Squadron Dining In means – another dress 🙂 I hadn’t liked wearing a shawl (to cover shoulders throughout the meal) last time, so wanted a dress which covered them anyway. Hours trawling the internet and patterns …
Feb 24
Mum bought a ‘money pouch’ at a craft fayre somewhere, got chatting to them about it and found the website they got the FREE design from for me 🙂 https://www.kreativekiwiembroidery.co.nz/ So I had to have a go. I did the smaller version to use as labels. This was my first attempt with fabric I had …
Oct 05
Version 2 of this dress, using a dark green satin, View E of the design, for Milly. Hopefully, although the fronts are the same, they will look sufficiently different for the Dining-In. I am not very good at this blogging. I was so stressed out doing the straps I forgot to take any photos. In …
Sep 22
I saw the instructions for this in Black Sheep Wools, before they got rid of their fabric section. It is nice and big for plenty of wool!! And rather effective in how it is made. I used strips of fabric from various different projects. Full width of the fabric where possible, 8 x 3″ strips. …
Sep 22
I bought this fabric to go with the Spirit of Life crochet wrap, but in the end I thought this was a bit too bright, and probably distracted from the wrap itself. I fancied frills, so a fair bit of ruffling, but I just simply overlocked the edges. Obviously it has POCKETS!!! The top was …
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