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
I have today off, and since baking a pie does not a full day make, I’ve done a bit of stock-taking of my sewing projects. (The pie crust should be cooled by now, so should shortly be back in pie land.) The first thing of note is my new baby. It was my ten-year anniversary
I still had a bit of a quilting itch yesterday, though knew I wouldn’t have the time to set up the machine. So instead, I brought out my long dormant landscape quilt I’ve been working on. I’ve most recently been stuck on how to add in the forest in the middle. I had a bit
With my renewed interest in sewing due to the new sewing machine, I dragged out the much interrupted celestial fabric quilt I’ve been working on for the better part of a decade (no, really. It’s a bit shaming, actually.) When I last left the quilt, I had woefully underestimated the amount of fabric I’d need
I spent the morning on Sunday (aka Hurricane Irene day) finishing up my Emmeline Apron. It’s from quilting cotton I bought at Joann Fabric. (It’s reversible, which is why there are two pictures.) It’s a nice, easy pattern – extremely easy to understand, and probably doable in a day if you’re not like me and
Today, I made jam. It’s freezer jam, since it’s far too hot to be doing the kind of cooking required for regular canning. This is the blueberry freezer jam from Ellie Topp and Margaret Howard’s The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving. I was immediately attracted to this book by the idea of not having to
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Blueberry’s quilt is done! I sewed the back of the binding last night (perfect evening to be forced to have a lap quilt, I might add), and ran it through the wash this morning. It’s all set to go down to Boston on Saturday. I’m really pleased with how it turned out, considering I choose
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