The Sewing Room

Hart - I love your quilt you clever thing! I might take your advice and do a cushion cover first as I don't think I would dare tackle a whole quilt just yet.
Vicki - I love your little over gloves and your lunch looks delicious! He is cute as butter too.

I love the hearts and once stuffed they will look fine. I love the oven gloves too, I made DD an apron but might have enough fabric to make oven gloves too which she would love. I am also a little green at the beautiul quilt made by Hart as this is still one fo the things I'd love to make but I'm not sure my machine will handle it.

I haven't been doing much fun sewing lately as I've been adjusting loads of tops for my brother and each one takes about 5 hours including the unpicking. I still have more to do but TBH I'm a little bored of them.

I picked up some bargain abric at a carboot sale yeasterday. I got 5 meters of gorgeous heavyweight purple striped fabric for only £4. It was new as the woman said she had intended to cover a sofa in it but then decided she was being too ambitious - I think I can relate to that! I'm going to make some curtains from it. It will be my first try at curtains and I'm going to try eyelet. This may be interesting!

Cuddles 123 could you explain puff patchwork? Isn’t normal patchwork filled with wadding, is there a difference? Im getting confused with the thicknesses I bought a medium and thick wadding but not sure which one to use. I like the puffier ones but have heard machines don’t like thicker wadding and I don’t want to quilt by hand, any recommendations?

Puff Patchwork is each square individually padded, and is also reversable, unlike an ordinary patchwork quilt.

You have squares all cut to size, place right sides together and machine around three sides. Turn the right way and insert a sqare of wadding, then hand sew the open edges. Make as many squares as you need (I worked out my pattern on graph paper as they are double sided so that the pattern is on both sides)

You then place your squares edge to edge and hand sew together. I then tied each corner to strengthen the quilt. No need for backing as the wadding is inside each square.
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I do want to put some sort of edging on though, as I think that they look unfinished.
I machine washed them yesterday and dried them in the sunshine, so all ready for an edging.

Danables, I more surprised I managed to do the quilt so quick :rotfl: It will cover a single bed but it was only suposed to be half that size, I got carried away with the squares :rotfl:

Vicki, I love your little boys oven gloves, my son used to love all roll play (nothing like his sister lol) and would have loved them.
I just fill my hearts with lavender
Your hearts are so pretty too You could put a few stitches in the top to define the heart top after padding if they still dont look round. I try to cut the top a little deeper so they round off (my 1st attempts looked spiky :rotfl: so just keep going it will get better )

Thank you Cuddles for explaining how you did the puff quilt, I think that will be next on my list

Well done shirlgirl on your bargin find :T

I realy must make one of the lazy day skirts for my grandaughter they are so nice