Tag: Christmas

Christmas Gift Projects

This Christmas season, I had a fun time creating a few gifts and special orders.

Lana requested a few infinity scarves, and I made an extra one to give as a gift at the quilt guild meeting.  At the guild meeting, I received a handmade gift of a zipper pouch filled with notions and a few fat quarters!

Ellen requested that I copy a pattern for a kids apron she made for her son years ago, using fabric especially for her grandson and granddaughter.  They turned out cute and I practiced using bias tape.

I made a tree skirt (free pattern here) for Asami and Matt.  This turned out to be an easy and fun project, and using the big space for ironing and laying out pattern pieces at Sewing Saturday was helpful.

I also made a table runner for my friend Jill at work.  She just bought a new house and I wanted to give her something sunny and positive for her new space!

Jill table runner

At school, we came up with the idea of a “Season of Caring” where each advisory class came up with a project.  Ms. Lowe’s group decided to make no-sew fleece blankets for charity.  Great job, kids!

school caring

I’ve been working on this baby blanket since after Ryan was born this fall.  It’s finally done as his belated Christmas gift!

 

 

Row by Row Experience – Summer 2014

This shop hop, the Row by Row Experience, is nationwide and quite simple.  Just visit the participating shops and ask for their free “row by row” pattern.  The theme is “seasons” so it might be holiday themed or use the four seasons tree fabric provided by the sponsors.  Some shops offer a kit for purchase with the fabrics needed to make it in their color palette.  Many shops are also selling license plates with funny fabric/sewing related sayings.  I’d like to collect one from each state I visit this summer.

Here’s a few of the blocks I collected in Ohio (pictures courtesy of the shop’s website or from my visit):

When I returned to Oregon, I collected another few row patterns and started work on a wall hanging using 8 of the blocks. Since I only bought the fabric pack from two shops, for the rest I used stash fabrics or picked up fat quarters to fill in sections.  It was fun to practice some new techniques, like the fusible applique.

Also, I used a new technique for basting (not pinning) the quilt that mom taught me using two boards to mimic a quilt frame.  It worked really well!  I also figured out that it would look nice to quilt with two different threads and using diagonal lines since the rows didn’t line up front to back very well.  Here are a few more pics of the process:

After a few nights up until midnight sewing, I turned in my finished quilt for the prize at Quilter’s Corner Store.  25 fat quarters in a rainbow of colors ready for inclusion into new projects and 2 yards of anything in the shop (I bought some beautiful batiks for an upcoming quilt project!  Tea Time Calico also generously gave me a free yard of fabric for including their row in my final project.  It’ll be fun to show the final project at the September WSQ guild meeting.

WQG December Meeting

The Westside Quilt Guild December Meeting gave me a chance to get to know more people in this group of creative quilters.  The tables were creatively decorated with fat quarters and ornaments.

Table decoration at Christmas Party
Table decoration at Christmas Party

Christmas Gifts

Merry Christmas!  It’s so fun to sew gifts for people!

    • A remote control holder for two less-used remotes.
    • Sequence Covers
    • Tablerunner
    • Penguin Potholders

tablerunner for ginger (Copy)This was made a few years ago, but fun to post it since it was used at Christmas!

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