I have hardly been in the sewing room since my last post, over two weeks ago! Sniff, sniff. Away in Melbourne for a few days, and a few days of work, and lots of other jobs to do around the house, and the time sped away. I did get one day in the sewing room last weekend, which was very therapeutic. And have had a few hours yesterday and today, while I finished the blue jelly roll quilt. The quilting is done with my walking foot, one direction of wavy lines, occasionally crossing each other. It was very easy to quilt and I think I might do this quilting again.
Finished size: 42" x 54.5"
Quilt top and binding from a jelly roll (did I keep the details of the fabric desiger/maker? No, sorry.) Pieced backing from my stash, and batting pieced from several small scraps.
Of course I have been hand sewing some evenings in front of my TV. I am close to finishing the "big stitch" hand quilting on my bright quilt (if you remember, Christmas was my deadline for finishing it). As soon as the quilting is finished, the binding is ready to be attached - maybe it can be a 2020 finish?
I finished hand sewing the binding down on the doll's quilt. Not the best example of quiltmaking but my granddaughter's dolls will love it. Backed with a piece of owl fabric, which echoes the colours in the quilt top. Finished size: 14.5" x 17"
And I made a few small gifts, fabric bowls, which needed hand sewing for their finishing touch, so they're all done. These are made from a pattern I saw on Pinterest (?) and are quickly and easily made. A couple of these were fussy cut. The hand sewing is just a few stitches with embroidery thread at each corner to hold the sides of the bowl up. They're not flash but I find them quite useful, so hope my friends do as well. The hexagon is 7" across before I turn up the corners. They are fun to fussy cut.
So, a few finishes this month, despite working "for the man". (For my future travel, more like!) I'm pleased that I actually have some finishes. For a while there, it felt like nothing was getting close to completed.
My goals for the remainder of this month: finish the hand quilting and attach & sew down the binding on the bright quilt; sew some more QAYG strip block; baste another quilt ready for quilting. That's probably enough goals, considering I'm working quite a bit (for me) over the next six weeks.
