Month: April 2020

Can one ever have too many tea towels!?

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In between regular sewing and tackling my project to do list, I have been busy running one of my sewing machines in embroidery mode! I have had a large pile of machine embroidery ideas & designs that I have been wanting to stitch out, so I picked some of the light stitching ones and set about to stitching up new towels.

Here’s a look at some of the finished towels:

All of these designs were found on Urban Threads:

  1. French Cafe- Le Cafe
  2. Kitchen Stitchin’- Time for Tea
  3. Coffee ’til Cocktails *This one I am planning on stitching on a shirt too!
  4. Uncorked- Time to Uncork and Unwind *this one I switched to a one color design instead of the ombre effect.

And the design above was a free one from Urban Threads as well. Each of the big kids got a new hand towel with a very mom approved friendly reminder!

Wash Your Hands from Urban Threads

I am still working through a stack of towels that I have. They are pretty light so next time I think I will be getting a heavier weight of towel. Overall, I love having a fresh stack of tea towels and slowly cleaning out my basket of “to-be embroidered” pile!

Zipper Pouch

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I realized when I was writing up my #makenine update, I never blogged about the zipper pouch. This pouch was made using two orphan quilt blocks that had been hanging out on my quilt wall for longer than I care to admit. So I decided to make them into something useable since I wasn’t going to make them into a quilt.

After finding a zipper and some extra fabric I set to work quilting the individual blocks with some simple decorative stitches from my machine. I made my quilt sandwich with the block, batting, and muslin and the bag isn’t lined. This is a wonderful place to experiment with some of those decorative stitches on your machine.

Once everything was quilted, I worked on attaching the zipper to the fabric I found that coordinated, sewed up the bag and added box corners. To finish the bag I added a tassel as a zipper pull. This pouch as been getting lots of use since I store all my computer things in it. 🙂

April #Makenine Update

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Here, we are at the April check in and I actually have 4 things crossed off. The table runner just got finished up, so I will need to get another check mark on there! I am making some good progress on my #makeninewip. Sidenote: I haven’t even blogged my orphan block zipper pouch, but I will try and get it posted later this week.

Here’s a look at what I already crossed off:

This upcoming week, I will be tackling a few more projects along with starting a few more projects, I am sure! One of the biggest things that I am attempting to do is… use what I have instead of getting caught up in starting something new and getting new supplies. Even though it is slightly challenging it has been fun crossing things off my list and emptying my shelves, projects bins, and piles. Now back to sewing!

The Single Girl Quilt…

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10 years in the works, and it was finally finished this past week!

I have been working on this one forever it seems like, so here are the details:

Pattern: Single Girl Quilt by Denyse Schmidt

Size: Throw/Lap (its about 51″ x 51″)

Fabric: the rings are out of a Tula Pink Plume charm pack, it took a lot of tricky cutting to get all the pieces out of a charm pack for the for rings. A Kona solid for the gray.

Backing: just lots of scraps of Tula Pink fabric I had in my fabric stash.

Binding: I did an extra wide machine binding to essentially frame the quilt. It is a another scrappy binding (my favorite style) of Tula Pink mostly the Plume and Parisville collections.

Quilting details:

Ruler work- for the straight lines, not perfect, but was practicing.

Free Motion- wavy pattern in corners of the outside ring blocks and around the gem in the center of each ring.

Machine Embroidery- the gem in the center design from Urban Threads found here.

Just regular quilting with my multipurpose foot is inside the rings.

Now that this quilt is finished up I can cross another thing off of my #makenine list (expect an update on that later this week). For now this quilt is being loved and bundled up in.

And of course, I added one of my favorites favorite woven labels from Kylie and the Machine too the back corner of the binding.

I am using our stay at home time to work on lots of unfinished and works in progress along with starting a few new ones in between, because let’s face it I couldn’t resist.