Another Pillow from Scraps.

Can you tell I love this color combo.  For this pillow cover, I took some of the narrowest scraps and cut them 1" wide.  They were varying lengths, and I assembled them randomly into one very long strip.  Then I joined them, à la jelly roll race, until the over all length was manageable.   Then I sliced three 18" lengths, trued them up and added sashing.  I used a bit of the left over for the back of the pillow.

I still have some more scraps left from the Dead Simple Quilt, but I think I'll switch gears for the other pillow covers I want to make.

Here's the back, it probably could us a bit of pressing.

It's drizzling right now, so the lighting isn't the best, but you get the idea.

May your bobbins always be full,

Pinterest

I made something I pinned on Pinterest!!!  Here's the pin, a pillow from anthropologie:

Here's my pillow.

Front and Back, all from scraps!

I love this fabric combo, earlier in the week I made these:

 

All the scraps are left over from this quilt, that's at the long arm quilter's.  

I probably won't have it back unit January.

My apologies, if you read more than one of my blogs, I've re-posted this from the Family blog.

May your bobbins always be full,

Fabric Baskets.

I've been doing a bit of "crafty" sewing, lately.  With Bob home and getting better, I've had a little extra time.  He still had a long way to go to reach his "normal", but every day is better.  We're spending a lot of time on the road, going to various specialists.  It's all a huge time-suck.

Back to sewing.  I made these fabric baskets, based on Ayumi's great tutorial, using up some of the scraps from the Dead Simple Quilt, that's at the long arm quilter, right now.  I don't expect it back until after the 1st of the year!

I even did a patchwork lining.  The scrap pile really never seems to go down, but I keep trying.  Next, I'm going to be making some pillow covers for the living room.  I haven't changed my pillows in over 10 years!  About time, don't you think.  What are you working on, this week?

May your bobbins always be full,

Gifties

I've started getting crafty, in anticipation of the gift giving season.  My West Coast family shrunk, by half, a few years ago when Carrie and her family moved to NC.  Since then, there are just four of us for the holidays; Sharon's BFF, lives close by in Temecula, and has started inviting us to join her extended family for Christmas dinner.  It's always informal and so much fun.  I only see these welcoming people once or twice a year, so it's always difficult to decide what to gift them.  I've settled on handmade, and I gift the women and children.  Perhaps one or two of these may make it to Temecula.   Here's my tutorial for these.

May your bobbins always be full,

Adjusted Tissue Box Tutorial

I haven't been doing a lot of quilt sewing lately, but I did start some crafty sewing.  I needed some useful items to give as gifts.  I really like this tissue box tutorial.  I wasn't entirely sure about the size; I'm really glad I made a prototype to keep for myself.  Before I started cutting I added 1/4" to every measurement, and found  it's not enough.  Here's my prototype:

It fits really, really tight around the box, and it's still too short.  I added more to each measurement.  I really recommend the tutorial, Aneela's directions are great; but I also recommend adding to the measurements.  Here are my adjusted measurements:

I cut my original pieces, before quilting them, 16" x 11" - (original was 15" x 10".)
Two - 9 3/4" x  5 1/2" pieces - (original was 9 1/2" x 5".)
Two - 5 1/4" x  3 3/4"  pieces - (original was 4 3/4" x 3 1/4".)

I also only slip-stitched 2 inches on the right and left when joining the two main pieces.  This gave the tissue more room to come thru.  I guess I'm a maverick.

Here's the one I'm happy with:

It's not so tight that it's a struggle to fit it over the tissue box, and it's covers the entire box.

May your bobbins always be full,