The Sewing Room

hart44

Some of the cheaper mats can take time to heal but if you wipe a lightly dampened cloth over it after you finish your work it helps get the bits of fluff out of the grooves. I find it keeps mine ready for next time then

Mooloo DGD outfit is beautiful :T I love it
I have almost finished my Belle bag just need to sew outer to lining and turn it through then the usual finishing (prob another half hr)

Savvy_sewing

irishgirl62 wrote: »

Thank you so much!:j that has made my day as no bargains were to be found in our usual wednesday afternoon trips round the charity shops today

Your very welcome, all parcelled up and ready to go.
I must look at all the gadgets I do have as I unpack my bags and see what there is there! I have so much stuff that I havent used in years and years.:o

genieuk

Good evening everyone, yey I have been sewing



Kindle sleeve for my daughter first time applique. Some lovely Ikea fabric and some bright orange waterproof 'windsock' fabric OH bought for me.




Made this today my 'fudge it & see bag'. The patterned fabric was a
cushion cover I bought from Ikea last year in the sale the red was a new tablecloth.

clairewop

They are lovely

pennib

Midge; Well done on selling your quilts. They look so nice.

Mooloo: Your little dress set is very pretty, no wonder gd wants to keep it on!

Irishgirl; Your musical dress is superb....if only I was younger I would buy it!

genieuk; Loving your bags, the orange inside add to the wow factor. Your 'fudge' bag is striking.
The kindle cover is brill. Now you've started applique you want wont to stop.

Just finished hand quilting my quilt at last. It's drying by the fire just now. Just need to find some binding now.

Savvy_sewing

clairewop wrote: »

They are lovely

I echo that one too!:j

hmo

great makes again everyone, love the music dress and the ereader covers are fab too and i bet the little girl loves her new outfit.

i bought a few fat quarters from that link just to see what they are like as not used them before.

Kaz2904

Some lovely makes everyone. Love the little outfit mooloo. Loving the bags and applique. I think that there are some superb fabrics around, sometimes it's all about having the nerve to just go for a wild and wacky colour isn't it?

I have made up the week 2 quilt block now. It still isn't quite 12.5" around but it's much closer. I found I had to really streeeeeeeetch some of the bits to try and get it to meet up. I think that a lot of my issues were not with not having a 1/4 inch seam, rather not being able to press it out to 1/4" effectively. I am closer to resolving this issue now as I'm pressing from the back and then flipping over and really taking time to make sure that all of the fabric is opened right up along the seam. I know I'm not explaining myself very well so I hope you can get my drift?

Anyway, onto pics!



I think that this is a much more manly colour and DH likes it. It is very bold but I like that for this quilt block. When the green fabric arrived from ebay I though "Ew, I don't know what I'm going to do with that. It'll never go!" Having spent the time colour coordinating the fabrics the other week, I'm happy with the colour matches and seeing this block made up, I know to be less wary of how it'll look when the block is done because it'll all tone itself down (IYSWIM?).
Am going to try and get block number 3 cut out tonight. Am finding the acrylic squares a godsend when I need a set size because the measuring of the other squares does take an awful lot of time and fiddling.
Hope you all like it.

@ hart, how did you get on, did you say you were going to try and get some more cut out today?
@ ailsb, how are you going along with this? I know you were going to get started but I forget how far you got (awful memory, sorry ).

Has anyone started their setting blocks yet? I'm still undecided what to make mine from. I could go for 2 colours or just make them up like other quilt blocks all in different colours. I hope to find some cheaper fabric to make up these bits with but I think I might just wait and see how all of the blocks look before I decide on setting blocks.
Righty ho, night all

irishgirl62

Queenie love all your makes!
Kaz love the colours of your blocks I have yet to start the quilt along!

Kaz2904

I think I'm going to take the time to make up a paper shape for the size squares/triangles I need. The kids have a protractor (somewhere) and we have lots of paper. This will save me masses of time (I hope!) and I should be able to get done far quicker. It's the cutting which is taking me so long at the moment. Right, now I'm really going