Sunday, February 24, 2013

Easy quilt - made in a few hours!

Hi everyone,

Today I made a quilt pretty quickly for my husbands best friends baby.

Due to him being due any day now I didn't have a long time

I rushed down to spotlight purchased a ready made panel for 30- & just had to make the binding which only took me 2 hrs!

A easy way to have a quilt in a few hours.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Sunday Stitchers!

Hi everyone,

My girlfriend Kylie decided to call our regular sewing group 'Sunday Stitchers'.

Once a month we meet up on a sunday and sew crazily.

We are now a group of seven with a new addition joining today!

So it was decided that this month we would all do the same project! As we are all usually doing different things! A bag making day it became.

My first real bag, besides the little one i made for my daughter last month!

Was it hard? Yes.
If I didn't have my friends helping I would not have been able to make this. For a beginner sewer it would be difficult without help. For an experienced sewer easy.

We were a little puzzled this morning with what wadding/ fusing (hard iron on fabric) to use. The older ladies figured it out & onto the project we got & pretty much all completed within 6-7 hours.

It's called the Black Forest bag - pattern by Melanie Hurlston

Pic from pattern!



My fabric for bag, cut out & ready to sew!



My finished bag!



Here are some pics of the other girls bags! Gorgeous girls!

Here they are below half done!



Completed!





Now I did have some sewing issues today! My tension on my bobbin was playing up!

All fixed now after I got Home. I googled issues with tension & found a great blog to help me fix my machine! All I had to do was tighten a screw in my bobbin case!

See blog below.

http://rdrop.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/thread-tension-janome-problem.html?m=1

Mel

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Elephant quilt completed

Hi everyone,

I finished my second quilt a few weeks ago!

Just been slack in posting the pics!

This was made for baby Henry who I still haven't met & given him his gift!

Here they are!