Further Progress.

I made moe progress on MIL's Quilt today, pressing the seams on the rows and laying them out - this pic was the first layout, but i found there was a cery obvious group of the white in the bottom left hand corner, so i rearranged it a little.

I couldn't take anymore pics as i needed to download some pics off the camera as it was full. YEP apparantly the card in my camera will only take a measly 326 pics! LOL.

I hope to start sewing the rows together this week and then get the wadding and backing in the holidays and pin it in the second week of the hols after our trip. XfingersX.

I am a little closer to reaching the deadline of June 24th.

slow progress. Thats why it's called a WISP!

well, i have finally put the strips together for MIL's quilt. There are 26 long pieces consisting of 15 and 17 rectangles.
and there you have my first mistake. Both row 1 and row 2 have an odd number of rectangles, instead of one even, one odd. Oh well. My plan is to lay it out and then just take a rectangle off each of the 17 long strips. XfingersX that will work.

I hope to press the seams tonight if i can get the kids into bed at a reasonable hour, and then lay it out on the loungeroom floor. I'll do pics then.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know that i have been sewing. it has only taken me 9 months to get this far. 3 months until desired deliery date - and still the strips need to be sewn together, it needs to be sandwhiched and pinned then quilted and binded. Still think this timeline might be a little ambitious.

A little Bag.

Well more sewing yesterday - all with a sick little girl at home. Although she was happy once we whipped up a skirt for her with some fabirc she chose from SL. It wasn't very good, being my first attempt at a skirt, and not using a pattern. I made soem VERY obvious mistakes, but thats ok. She loves it and that is all that maters. It's just a play skirt anyway. ave found some nice easy tutorials so will have a go at another one maybe tomorrow for her.

I did put together one of the bags that was on my WIP list. I am just now trying to decide whether to give it as a b'day pressie on Thursday or make another for her. I found this gorgeous black fabric with small red and gold flowers on it which would make a divine bag, so might whip that up tonight and then decide.



This was the first bag i have attempted that has soemthing other than fabric handles. I was pleased, although had some difficulty trying to sew with the handle in place. This one was made easier by the fact i could take the handles off as they just hook in to the fabric loops, but i think for my next one i will just make the fabric loops a little longer to make it easier to sew.

I also have to put a satchel together for the same bday on thursday. Thursday then means i have 12 months to complete the special Quilt for my bestie for her 35th. I am going to try and hand quilt it too, so I plan to peice it as soon as MIL's quilt is pieced.

Speaking of MIL's quilt. It is finally cut!! 425 peices!! Wow. That just took so long, as it was hard to get motivated to cut 425 rectangles. I think it will come together nicely and i also managed to get the rows together in piles yesterday. 12 x Row 1 (14 rectangles) and 12 x Row 2 (15 rectangles). It is the same rnadom pattern that i used for the earlier baby quilts (like Molly and Jacks) but just in full size. I hope to get it pieced this week as it will take forever to pin and then quilt. I suspect June might come quickly.

OK, off to get ready for work...dropping sick Miss to Dh at lunchtime so I can teach this arvo.

I got my SEW-JO back!!

Well, after a few days of rearranging the house, Master 4 moving into the larger room and my sewing room "downsizing" i have finally had the urge to get the machine going again!

Ok, so i didn't do much, but with a sick Miss 2.5 I thought i did ok. I finally edged the patchwrk playmat for day care which has been sitting begging to be done for weeks now. It was one of those projects that always seemed "too hard" so i kept putting it off. But ayway, file it away as it is now done. It was just squares of old thermal line curtain material sewn together. They plan to use it when the ground might be still dewy and they want to head out into the "fairy garden" for morning tea.

I also made VERY QUICK AND EASY door stop. It was in the latest BHG as "No damn slam" ad is supposed to be decorate to be a pear. But i decided i would just try the basic shape, as pears don't really suit our house yet. ONce we get the whole country theme going it might be different, but that is still awhile off. Although the new furniture arriving next weekend will be a good start.

Anyway, it was nice a simple, and Master 4 was even able to help with the tracing and enlarging of the picture.

So here is the finished product:

Anwyay, will have Miss 2.5 home with me tomorrow so not sure how much will get done but this are my current WIP's and WISP's....

WIP:

*Bushfire quilt

*2 handbags

*1 satchel

*1 fat quater handbag

WISP:

*MIL's quilt. Must be completed by June 24th.

Currently still cutting!!!!

i'll be back to update how much gets done tomorrow.