Covid and then a bacterial infection in my leg slowed down my sewing in July, sadly. I had planned lots of sewing as my paid work had eased off a lot. Not to be however!
A friend asked me to make a cover for the head of her crochet mallet as the one she had wasn't to her taste. With much trial and error (do not attempt complex measurements when recovering from Covid), I finished two - my trial version and the final one. She would also like me to make a cover for her smaller mallet, used for gateball - a form of croquet. That is half done at present. I didn't want to make bias binding in her preferred dark colour until I had the cover right, which is why the trial version is quite bright and varied. The idea with the cover is that it wraps over the top of the mallet head, with a space for the handle. The Velcro will keep it firm. I sewed the round ends on with the seam on the outside and then covered that with bias binding. Hopefully Cheryl will like them.
My friend's birthday is in early August, and because I've been sick, her wall hanging is much neglected. I'm hopeful of finishing it to at least sandwiched stage by her birthday. Fingers crossed!
Bonnie Hunter's scrappy trip around the world pattern has intrigued me for some time, as it seems to be a great way of using up scraps. I've made nine blocks so far - laid out on the table - and hope to make another 15 to get a decent sized quilt. When I look in my 2 1/2"strip box, I am pretty sure I will have no trouble making those extra blocks. Some blocks I've made using individual 2 1/2" squares, other blocks made from 6 x 2 1/2" strips joined together in a tube. I'm still not sure which method I prefer.
I try to cut my scrap fabrics into useful sizes and keep on top of the cutting so that I'm not overwhelmed with scraps. Initially I included 1" squares in the scrap cutting but stopped that as they're too small. However, I had a bunch already cut so I'm using them as leader/enders for other sewing with a view to turning them into a small scrap quilt - just because I can. After spending all that time cutting the squares, I would feel terrible about chucking them in the fabric recycling.
Other useful sizes I cut are 2 1/2" strips, squares of varying sizes, 1 1/2" x 2 1/2" rectangles, and 10" squares too. I have lots of patterns for precuts so all these should be useful eventually.
July 2022 fabric tally
Finishes this month are: croquet mallets = 1/2m fabric.
Fabric used: - 0.5 m Fabric acquired: + 0 m
2022 fabric tally so far: + 27 m
