Coiled Fabric Bowls

      On a rainy Saturday morning there is not much better to do than sew.  This morning I taught 4 ladies to sew coiled fabric bowls.  First we all wrapped our precut strips around 3/16” cotton clothesline ( It is getting harder to find.) then zigzag stitched rounds to form bowls.  Following are photos of them working and their finished small bowls.

Mary

 

Tina

 

Lynn

 

Kathy

I hope they enjoyed the process enough to continue and make more.  

Week of Sewing

    Wednesday at SQG sew day I started sewing Scrappy Duo blocks.  It is a quilt pattern from Fons & Porter’s Quilting Quickly Summer ’14. 

You can also watch video lesson on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMl157vw5IM.  

Instead of purchasing a Layer Cake of fabric, I used the stash of scraps and fat quarters to cut the 10” squares.  One thing I especially like about the pattern is when you sew the blocks, you create 2 blocks alike; plus at the same time you make 2 HST blocks from each square of fabric which will make another small quilt. 

     In my pile of UFOs and orphan blocks, I pulled 9 bug jar blocks that were left over from a quilt I made in 2003. I made 2 more jars and paper-pieced the frog, dragonfly and snail.  I did not have enough of the dark brown background to make any more blocks.  After adding shelf sashing and a frame, this is how it looks. The pattern is named "Escaping Bugs" by Bottle Quilt Co..

 It is small so I am thinking of adding a made-fabric wide inner border and then a regular outer border. 

made-fabric

Have fun sewing and quilting!

Halloween Costume Sewing

     Since my first granddaughter’s birth, about this time of year it has been requested that I make a Halloween costume.  This year the younger one is into super heroes so I have been spending time sewing on Super Girl’s dress.   I still need to make a cape and the pattern also offers fabric boot covers.

This past week I also spent a day cutting up scraps for pet beds (another finished); however, in the process a finger got in the way of my rotary cutter blade (not bad enough to need stitches) so I did only a little cutting or sewing for a couple of days while it started to heal. 

Sunday afternoon I finished quilting the Dora comfort quilt.  I plan to take it Tuesday to Comfort Quilt Sew Day in hopes that someone will volunteer to sew on the binding. 

This week I have sew days Tuesday and Wednesday.  

Hope you find a few minutes to sew or quilt.