I finished the hoodie on Sunday. I will likely go back and resew the sides to be a little more close fitting (it’s pretty loose right now), but for the most part, it’s a great pattern – the fit in the sleeves and bust it great. I can totally see myself making this in different […]
I recently purchased the Sewing with Knits class from Craftsy. If you sign up for the site and don’t buy anything for a while, they’ll send you a class for $19.99 offer (and they have sales occasionally as well), and 20 bucks for a class with five patterns included seemed like a pretty good deal.
The landscape quilt is done. It took a little longer than I originally planned because I had to re-jigger the hanging tube. I’d originally applied it a little lower than it ended up (above), and it just didn’t look right. So off that came, and up it went. The only problem now? We don’t actually
So, in other crafty news, I took out the landscape quilt again this weekend. Yesterday, I sewed all of the layers on. I also got the backing pinned on, made the binding, and got most of the binding sewed on, until I realized I had done the corners completely wrong. So I ripped those out,
So I’d gone through all the trouble of making some windmill blocks in various greens to represent the trees in my landscape quilt, and to be honest, I just wasn’t feeling it. So, I tossed them back in the landscape fabric drawer, brought out a whole bunch of greens, and did strips instead. I’m already
The Decade Quilt is done. I actually finished it up on Sunday night, but haven’t been able to photograph it in anything approaching decent light until today. I started collecting the fabric for this about ten years ago. It’s all celestial or sky themed, so I decided to make it a postage stamp quilt to
So I was tooling along pretty nicely with the landscape quilt – I got the last of three ‘tree’ strips done, and all three sewn together. I pinned those at the river bed, and got ready to sew that. And that is where I hit a snag. The clear thread I currently have is absolutely
And lo, there was bias binding in adequate amounts produced! And it has been attached to the entire front of the Decade Quilt! Yeah, note to self: when one is stopped in the middle of making bias binding from two pieces of fabric by the implosion of the second piece of fabric, make a note
Here’s the second part of L’s gift – overalls from the same Burda pattern as the dress I made. They’re done in a dark lavender thin wale corduroy (which is terribly lit in the picture now that I can’t often take pictures during daylight hours). It was definitely interesting putting this together – I’ve never
Part 1 of my niece’s Christmas present is done: this is the bibbed dress pattern from Burda 9772, which I did in a cute patterned flannel, in the smallest size (six months). This was a lot of fun to make – it’s got facing pieces, which I’d never done before, and I finally got interfacing