When you are out of the house for 12 hours
a day, 5 days a week, and have to cook dinner, feed and bathe kids and read
stories before you can clean up and sew, making progress is slow. Very slow! But I am glad that I have been
pushing past that wall of tiredness and switching on the machine. There is
something about piecing bits of fabric together that I find so relaxing. I have to tune out the world and focus on cutting
accurately, making seams meet, pressing carefully and I get to watch a block
appear before my eyes.
Given that I have just gotten over a
stomach virus and now considering staying home in bed tomorrow to get over the
head cold that has been plaguing me all week (and harassing me with an asthma
flare up that has made me just want to sleep), perhaps taking on another QAL
was not such a good idea. But if I think
of it as medication to keep me sane… I am so happy to be joining in! So I am
following the Moda Friendship Blog Hop and QAL and loving every minute!
I was inspired by the gorgeous “Simply
Sweet” fabric range I have used on Madelyn’s latest dress (made this week –
just needs buttons). I told you I was
excited about this one, because of the fabric selection, right? Well now I have an excuse to play with these
colours some more!
I bought the fabric at an end of bolt sale,
so had a minimum 1y cut. So I grabbed
1.5y of each the green and the white prints.
This means I have plenty left to make Emily a little matching
dolly dress (and sqee! Just as I was considering drafting my own dolly version,
Tie Dye Diva released it in dolly size!). Unfortunately this fabric is hard to find
now, so I can’t make an entire quilt from this range, but I have plenty to use
in a few of the blocks. And an order of
coordinating prints on the way (woops – that stash busting doesn’t look like
it’s going so well!). How could I resist
some of this Pam Kitty Love?
I managed to finish my CP cushion top, and
nearly went ahead and quilted it so it was ready to stitch into a cushion cover
when I eventually get to a shop to buy a zip.
Fortunately, sensibility took hold and I tucked myself into bed before
midnight hit, and turned me into a pumpkin. This block is so easy and quick to make, which
makes me confident enough to cut into my Pieces of Hope stack. Joining them and matching up seams was a
little tricky, but I got the hang of it, and I think on larger blocks I will be
wondering what I was worried about.
And thanks to Vanessa from Punkin Patterns,
for her design wall post, I now have one of my own! Mine is only small; 500mm by 700mm and I had
room to go bigger, but I chose to use foam board rather than polystyrene (for the sake of the vet bills I didn't want, as my cat loves to eat the stuff!) This was the only size available when I went to
Officeworks on the weekend. I paid the
extra dollar and got the self-adhesive foam board. Fabulous!
All I had to do was peel back the backing paper, smooth on some
flannelette, and tape it to the back.
Done!
I deliberated on turning it into smaller
design boards to help with cutting and laying out sampler blocks, but
the design wall won out. I may go back
and get some more but at $11.50 a piece I wanted it to be the size I would most
use. DH doesn’t let me hang quilts on
walls… but he said nothing about design boards!
Okay, time to link up with Freshly Pieced and hit the couch with some knitting... No sewing tonight, I am exhausted!
2 comments:
Sorry you've been unwell...hope you're feeling better soon.
I love your WIP's. They're beautiful...especially on the wall behind your machine...sew pretty. =)
Visiting from WIP Wednesday. Have a great day.
I hope you feel better soon. Sounds like you've been hit with enough illness for the whole winter (though maybe it's better to be sick with everything for one week than to have it spread out over the whole winter!)
I love the block at the top of your post. The pattern is awesome and the fabrics are lovely together.
Get better soon!
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