Friday, October 7, 2011

Roman Shades

My DD and I are always thinking and she is thinking Roman Shades for her baby room.  My Mr made the wooden bracket that I use for Roman shades and it works really well. A picture tells a thousand words...

Hopefully baby won't have such a boring pattern on his/her shade...

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Quilt in Waiting

And here are some pieces for another quilt all cut up and ready to go...
Most of the fabric are bali prints from a bundle of 2 1/2 in strips.  Quick cutting and hopefully quick piecing...

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Bright Quilt

Guess what?  I am finished quilting a smallish quilt.  Here's a peek.  It still needs some binding though.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Pincushion Crazy 3

After two BIG pincushion trials - I think I went too small.  But cute.

I remembered some bean bags that I had made for the children years ago and I thought I needed four finished rectangles in a 2/4 ratio.  So I thought I would like the finished size to be 1 1/2 in by 3 in so I cut out a total of four rectangles (two of each colour)that were 2in x 3 1/2 inches


Laying the four rectangles our alternating colours in a cross, begin sewing turning corners as you go.  I found it was easiest to sew on the side with the 90 degree corner on top so I did quite a bit of backstitching on the other side and then flipping it over.  It got a bit tricky but in the end just keep trying to close it all in like a quasi box (but not).


I put in a bit of brown rice for weight and then polyester stuffing to plump it up.  It ended up really small...Maybe I should have cut the rectangles 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches.  Maybe next time.

Now I have lots of pincushions.  I am really pleased they look great.  Maybe I will just display them in a group...