Time for a new direction

I love (and hate) getting to start new projects. I finished the full joys of winter quilt top, unfortunately I didn't take a photo of it before taking it to my parents place, where my mother hijacked it. I brought it over to square on her big cutting table, but she claimed it absolutely had to be steam ironed before we could square it and so I had to leave it there.

So today I got to start looking at some new fabrics and supplies I bought on the weekend, and dig into my bag fabric stash and start thinking about some fun smaller projects. I love all the possibilities but I think I worry that I'll 'waste' some fabric that later on I'll find the perfect project for. The modern Asian Toile above is one that I love but can never bring myself to use.

Some cool, environment minded fabric designs that I found this weekend which to me begged to be turned into some grocery/market bags.

A little bit of Amy. These are both home decor weight fabrics, which I thought would be nice for certain styles of bags.
Some new and old fabrics in contention for the next bags. A couple I also think would make beautiful cushions, and the brown and tan fabrics I think would lend themselves well to quilts. Decisions decisions. Hence the love-hate relationship.

Battik Beauty

I finally finished hand stitching the binding of this quilt last week. I had assembled the top by early August, but between finding a backing and then actually getting around to quilting it was quite the delay. I stippled in cordinating colours the half blocks because I really wanted the fun fabrics to stand out. I can't wait for summer when it will be easier to take nice pictures of bigger quilts.


I found this pattern in a quilting magazine, it uses 16 fat quarters and 2 coordinating fabrics, plus the border, I thought it was simple yet effective. I could fit a queen bed, but my intention in making it was just to have a fun quilt to through on when watching a movie or reading. I backed it with fleece for soft comfort.

Complete Colapse of My Sewing World

Literally! So this winter I've had no choice but to sew in my bedroom. I have one desk in a corner where I'm ironing, sewing and cutting. The surface is a desk top sitting on top of 2 saw horses, and apparently between the vibration of sewing and constantly shifting thing about I had unsettled what had become a delicate balance. So yesterday while attempting to make a small cut, I felt the world shift below me and watched (as what appeared to be in slow motion) my entire desk fell apart. I grabbed the iron before that did any damage, and luckily I had set the sewing machine on the ground to make room for cutting. It still made a pretty big mess, pins and supplies everywhere. Note to self: check table legs for stability every once in awhile.

Despite this I have finally started to make real progress assembling the quilt top. This is about 2/3 of the top. It definetly needs a good passing of the iron.I’m hoping that in the next couple of days, at most, I’ll finish the top and can sneak in a few small projects before I continue working on this project.




Here’s the dark one you can’t see very well in the larger photo

Little Distraction

So I gave myself a quick break from assembling the joys of winter quilt top and I started to use up some leftover scraps of fabrics to make bibs. I have a friend who's due late March, having a girl (obvious from the fabric choice).
I followed a pattern out of a book of baby projects, but I find myself a little perplexed. Does the neck whole not look a little small, can a baby's neck really be that tiny. I haven't been around as many babies lately as when I was younger but I don't remember them being that tiny. Unfortunately I can't exactly walk up to a stranger with a baby and measure their neck. It’s attached through Velcro, so there is a little wiggle room, but I'm not convinced it will be enough.
Maybe I'll try to seek out some other patterns and compare.