I am devoting my sewing time to finishing the string shirt borders on my Squares Surrounded quilt top. Making great progress. I have a pile of small shirt scraps. Then. it. happened. I sewed this:
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
{Post 1,187} New Hand-Sewing Project
{Post 1,187} Mercury Glass Project (DIY from tutorial)
I usually ignore trendy things. Intentionally.
My daughter's piano teacher has some mercury glass in her dining room. I sit by it and stitch while Rachel has her lesson. I got to where I like it! After reading a couple tutorials, I decided to give it a try today on some items I was going to put in our garage sale Saturday. I figured if they didn't turn out, to the GS they go.
I practiced on a quilted pint-size canning jar. No, I didn't quilt it. There was a beveled glass pattern years ago that was called quilted. I didn't see any stitches myself.
The only good picture I got was of my heart-shaped clear glass candy dish. Here it is. I am holding it upside down in the photo.
Monday, June 17, 2013
{Post 1,186} Pumpkin Patch Top
This is a top I started today. I am about to list it on eBay. It measures 48-1/2" wide by 60-1/2" tall. The original pattern has a 1" finished then a 4" finished border.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
{Post 1,185} Quick Project
I had seen these little bags on Pinterest. They are on my sewing board if you are interested. I thought my girls (especially Rachel, my self-named Hunny Bunny) would like them for traveling. You know--to keep things (unders) together in the ole suitcase. Rachel is going to two camps and a couple shorter trips this summer.
I made these two tonight in about 15 minutes each. The first one was slower because I was reading directions!