The Sewing Room

pennib

Crikey Keiss thats a lot of machines. Hope you get a good bonus soon! Bet the boss is glad the day s/he hired you.

blossomhill_2

Mooloo wrote: »

Since a huge family problem has arrisen I have not been anywhere near my sewing machine. I hope that i will be back to it soon, as I have shown interest in a craft stall in June, and I dont really have a clue as to what I am putting on it!.
I shall have to pick your brains Rufusdog, as to what kind of things sell. (Think its a craft stall at a school, so thinking pocket money prices I suppose).

Mooloo I have been thinking of doing some Baby Annabelle bedding and found this which could be a seller at a school (love the shoes) http://free.wollyonline.com/BD16f01.asp?category=2&ProdId=100

Does anyone have internal dimension for the annabelle bed matress please, I have found them online for the whole bed but can't tell which is height, width etc

jamsponge

Hi everyone. I am new to this thread.

I have just started making a patchwork quilt for my daughters 21st birthday. I wanted to give her something she could keep as an heirloom. I already do a million other crafts lol. Anyway any words of wisdom will be gratefully received.

winniepooh

Hmo I need your help. We had to make a small quilt on our course and you inspired me with your pin wheel quilt. Im only doing four pin wheels with a border between each one. Do you just do long strips of border to the finished pin wheels or does every pin wheel have its own border? Im not explaining my self very well

ScarlettOHara_2

Hi

What do you all do with your fabric scraps? I've spent the morning culling carrier bags down into more useable pieces, charm pack size etc and I think I'm going to have to go into business to use them all up! I do dressmaking so the pile is never going to get any smaller without some drastic action. Sadly nothing co-ordinates well enough to go into a quilt which would be the obvious choice.

Also does anyone know if there is a way of recycling the really small scraps? Seems such a shame to send them to landfill.

winniepooh

You can send them all to me lol

Justamum

ScarlettOHara wrote: »

Also does anyone know if there is a way of recycling the really small scraps? Seems such a shame to send them to landfill.

Crazy quilting? It can look lovely.

hmo

winniepooh wrote: »

Hmo I need your help. We had to make a small quilt on our course and you inspired me with your pin wheel quilt. Im only doing four pin wheels with a border between each one. Do you just do long strips of border to the finished pin wheels or does every pin wheel have its own border? Im not explaining my self very well

hi sorry only just seen this i took my little girl to see girls aloud last night so didnt get home till midnight.

the way i did mine was make the pinwheel block and then measure it once pressed.

whatever height it is cut the plain strip that height by the width you want, i think mine were 1.5inch wide so after qrt inch seem they ended up as 1inch

attach one strip to the right hand side of each block working from left to right across a row, dont put one on the right hand side of the last block

do that for each row

then press and measure your rows and cut a plain strip again at 1.5 by the length you need and attache it to each row

then i measured both side and the top and bottom and cut plain again for the borders.

does that help

hmo

jamsponge wrote: »

Hi everyone. I am new to this thread.

I have just started making a patchwork quilt for my daughters 21st birthday. I wanted to give her something she could keep as an heirloom. I already do a million other crafts lol. Anyway any words of wisdom will be gratefully received.

accurate measuring and cutting for all your fabric is vital, press every time you sew your blocks together, take your time be consistent with your seem allowance.

give yourself plenty of time and you will be fine

ScarlettOHara_2

winniepooh wrote: »

You can send them all to me lol

Lol I didnt think anybody would want them. You'd be welcome to them, I looked up crazy quilting - theres no way in the world I have the patience for that sadly!