I have watched so many movies this week they're all becoming a blur! Mind you, I am watching silly little romances that I don't have to pay attention to while I'm sewing so it's no wonder I don't remember what I've actually watched.
I finished the blanket stitch on my foster girl's cushion and I completed the boy's cushion too. They'll be quilted as soon as I can do it.
My crochet friend was given a big pile of patchwork to do with what she pleased and she gave it to me. I'll be honest, I thought it was a nice big pile of fabric when I gladly accepted it but it was two almost finished wonky log cabin quilts and a pile of blocks.
I laid them out on my design floor to see what was what. Wellington loves them!
And he likes the finished quilt too! I made binding!
This one had a couple of blocks missing and it needed all of the outside seams repaired. I also made binding!
I was left with lots of blocks and these went together ok except for that corner block which was too different. I unpicked two other blocks to make a new complete one. Wonky log stars are harder than I thought to make!
I trimmed it, and the other blocks, on my kitchen workbench turned cutting table.
I made binding! Woo! No dogs!
Oh. I spoke too soon! Mila decided she liked these blocks. I'm going to wash them and turn them into stillborn baby quilts as there's not enough matching ones to make anything else with. I'm beginning to see why I like my design wall in my studio so much now!
These quilts are going to be added to the "to be quilted" mountain. I don't have any backing fabric for them and I'm loath to spend any money on them at the moment either.
I have another quilt top to quilt for a friend and she was happy with me using a sheet as backing. I bought a sheet set because they didn't have flat sheets in the colour I wanted so I cut off the elastic part of the sheet and unpicked the corners and was left with this lovely cross shaped fabric. There was enough fabric for my friend's backing and for another small quilt. Then I squared it up and used the strips I cut off for baby quilts. That sheet set was very useful!
This has since been washed and dried and I've been putting off pressing it.
I used some of that sheet for the background fabric for these tiny quilts. It was a perfect colour match.
I have been hand sewing these at the Tuesday sewing sessions but I realised that once I quilt my friend's quilt there'll be enough backing to quilt these little ones at the same time. I don't want my friend to have to wait too long for her quilt so I machine stitched a few blocks.
It was too dark to go outside to my studio to gather another project so I started sewing the colourful strips into pairs. I don't know what I'll make with them but I enjoyed the mindless sewing!
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