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nykied

nykied wrote: »

On a sewing-related note, I've sewn the outside bit of my Kindle Keeper, but I have one question:

HOW ON EARTH DO YOU SEW IN A STRAIGHT LINE WHEN YOU DOING ZIGZAG STITCH???? :mad:

Actually, forget this dumbass question. I just looked at that thing they call a foot rather than watching the stitches go from side to side

hart44

Morning everyone
Im glad you sorted you problems nykied and Cuddles
I always have to watch the front of the foot when sewing, its the only way I can get a straight line (well most of the time :rotfl:)

That PC virus has been catching a lot of people out :mad: my OH is a PC geek and fixes PC's for everyone around here (he's looking into starting his own PC business) he has put Avast on mine as its free and it does all up dates without you knowing.

Now for my sewing news :rotfl: I love being off work and haveing my evenings free for sewing as I have made another 1hr bag, a pleated make-up bag and another buttercup bag.
I wanted to make a small card wallet (as I have ltoo many loyalty cards) and have found this to do tomorrow
http://spoonfullofsugargirls.blogspot.com/2009/03/tutorial-scrappy-loyalty-card-wallet.html

jemtom

hi all, done my sons cushions, also made him some tiebacks and a crayon roll out of the left over material. going to go to my market today and see what material they have there want to make him a quilt next. will be looking out for that 99p magazine too. that loyalty card maker is lovely may be one to try when i get some more material.

Bunny200

Thanks for the advice about my interfacing, I think I will try the sew-in interfacing. I've got some heavy atm so I'll experiment first before I commit to it. Its a complete !!!!!!!
Anyway I'm going here today and I'm really looking forward to it. I think I'll have a mooch round the fabric shops in Brighton as well, theres a Fabricland, C&H Fabrics, and some smaller retailers. Bring on the fabric loveliness!!!!!!!!!!!


btw, heres some more card wallet tutes, I'm going to get round to making one as I can't close my purse due to loyalty cards (isn't it ironic that we have a loyalty card for LOADS of shops?!) but got other things on my plate!

PootleFlump_3

Bunny200 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice about my interfacing, I think I will try the sew-in interfacing. I've got some heavy atm so I'll experiment first before I commit to it. Its a complete !!!!!!!
Anyway I'm going here today and I'm really looking forward to it. I think I'll have a mooch round the fabric shops in Brighton as well, theres a Fabricland, C&H Fabrics, and some smaller retailers. Bring on the fabric loveliness!!!!!!!!!!!


btw, heres some more card wallet tutes, I'm going to get round to making one as I can't close my purse due to loyalty cards (isn't it ironic that we have a loyalty card for LOADS of shops?!) but got other things on my plate!

Bunny could you let me know if its any good. Im hopefully going to the one in Glasgow on 5th March but would like to know if its any good before I buy tickets. x

hart44

Oh you are so luck Bunny I would love to go to one, maybe will do one day as Im not too far from Birmingham NEC but time and money is a pain at the moment. Anyway would LOVE to hear all about it when you are back
I do have a lovely fabric shop (it's like walking into heaven for me :rotfl:) just a few miles from me and the prices are so cheap, they have some lovely Cath Kidston type fabric in at the moment and they have things the ladies in the sewing group have done displayed around the shop. I must get some ( mental note to self NO. NO. NO :rotfl:)

bladerunner73

Hi All, I have an image in my head of something I'd like to make for DH it's a patchwork type quilt but has an illustrated cushion front as the central panel - was wondering if anyone has seen any examples of something like this or if it's just a daft idea.
Any feedback or thoughts gratefully accepted.

nykied

jemtom wrote: »

will be looking out for that 99p magazine too. that loyalty card maker is lovely may be one to try when i get some more material.

It's called 'The Art of Knitting' and it won't be with the normal magazines, as it's attached to a big bit of card with knitting needles and two balls of wool next to the magazine.

LJM

cuddles123 wrote: »

Thanks everyone.

Managed to get rid of it with Malware - phew

Glad you got it sorted Hun xx

rufusdog52

bladerunner73 wrote: »

Hi All, I have an image in my head of something I'd like to make for DH it's a patchwork type quilt but has an illustrated cushion front as the central panel - was wondering if anyone has seen any examples of something like this or if it's just a daft idea.
Any feedback or thoughts gratefully accepted.

This should be easy enough to do bladerunner, my last quilt had quite a big panel in the centre (its on my blog, the oriental one) and the one I am doing now has a large square cushion panel in the centre (haven't started sewing it yet, just cutting it all out). You need to work out what size squares you would need to go around the bigger panel so they all fit together nicely. The panel on my oriental quilt wasn't properly square so I had to add strips in here and there to make the squares fit together.

What you need to do is measure your cushion panel, the one I have for next quilt is 15 inches across I think. So I thought I would divide that into threes making 5 inches squares - but this is the size of the finished squares, I needed to add 1/4 inch seams so that means cutting out 5 1/2 inch squares.

Hope this is what you wanted to know, Rufus xx