Tried some paper piecing yesterday. Aside from my fundamental lack of forward vision (I totally placed the colored pieces wrong to actually achieve a Circle of Flying Geese), I really enjoyed the actual technique. I just have to pay attention up front to how I lay things out next time…
I had yesterday off, and since we had a lovely nor’easter going on, and my family’s Thanksgiving festivities are on Friday this year, I didn’t really have anything I had to do. So I did a lot of chores. Including some clean out the sewing basket things. I made the backing for the quilt
Here’s today’s project: a crib sized Yellow Brick Road quilt top from some sea themed fabrics I picked up a couple years ago. This is something like the fourth or fifth time I’ve used this pattern – it’s deceptively complex looking, but is actually just strip quilting. I took Carol Doak’s Mastering Foundation Paper Piecing
I took Friday off, because I really needed a day off, and I wanted to actually get some sewing done. The day turned out dreary as hell, so I think I made the right choice there. (I also downloaded a paper piecing class from Craftsy so I could take a break and still
Well, today, I finished the skirt I’ve been working on. I gave up on the blind hem. I think the fabric was a little too unwieldy (ie: hard to press and get it to actually stick), and I’d tried the hem so many times, I had a bunch of stitches I couldn’t entirely pull out
So, having given up on the shirt I was working on, I needed a bit of a sewing win. I’d bought some simple gray suiting fabric to make a skirt from a book that gives instructions for patternless skirts, but realized after buying it I’m pretty much a pattern girl. Fortunately, I’ve been sitting on
So, what’s a girl to do on a dreary, rainy, Memorial Day weekend? Sew! (Seriously, I’m wearing a sweater and socks. Some start of the summer season!) I made some binding and a hanger for the sunset quilt, and sewed the front of the binding on. I’ve got the hanger positioned on the back now,
So this weekend’s exciting development in sewing was bias binding tape! Which I’m not entirely sure I really installed correctly, but it does make a nice, neat armhole. I also started on the yoke of the shirt, which is rather gather-rific. And since the fabric is so sheer, it’s really gathery. I’ll admit to a
So my original plan on Sunday was to work on the shirt I cut out about two weeks ago. I got all the way through step 2 (see, there are pre-gathers!), and saw that I hadn’t read the notions list, and therefore didn’t have single fold bias tape. So that didn’t last very long. Since
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The other crafty thing I did this weekend was start on a shirt. I went on a buying binge of both patterns and fabrics right around Christmas (when Joann’s tends to do the buck a pattern sales), and it occurred to me I should really try to use something that I’d bought. So I’m attempting