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Thursday, September 9, 2021
Saturday, September 4, 2021
He likes it- he loves it!!!
I made this Lambie Pie before the Baby was Born!
I thought-probably won't even like it- a lot of work... But This
was the reward!!
Coat With Simple Shawl Collar
Now Making
Fur Coat with Simple Shawl Collar and Side Pockets
Lined with Black Satin
Supplies:
the shape below is squared off at the bottom - so a little bigger
Nice Pleather for Sash Belt and Large Button - maybe trim on Side seam pockets. The Pleather I am going to use is suede on one side and pleather on the other. Non-stretch... I believe I will try to rouche the middle of the belt and use a leather look buckle that is a pull through without eyelet holes, so It can be reversible.
This is the look we are going for... with optional pleather covered large buttons (2) and or Large Rouged back pleather belting with a pull through buckle.---Large Side Seam Pockets---Rounded edge lapels that are full.
Take all the best parts of three patterns and cut out.... and sew...
Pockets sewn into side seams have to be trimmed and then sewn down and toward front to flatten and also made out of fur for warmth will be hidden by lining
If there is leftover Fur
A Purse?... remember this one?
The left over fabrics did not go to waste..here is a clutch from the same fabric
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Tuxedo BIb
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Quillow-I SPY Concentration with Scraps
Plan the Quillow
For my Grandson
You can put a handle on the quillow or make a separate little tote bag so they can use it as a picnic or play throw anywhere
add a little pillow on the top edge and they can use it as a nappy sack
with an item in the center
Put Your small square in the middle and then fill in your block with scrap strips, so you use up all your scraps.
I first cut out all the pairs of small squares and laid them in a pile, and then just grabbed scraps and filled in the blocks after sewing the first small square on.
You could have a theme, Vegetables, Animals,
I am using my scraps from masks-so it is everything
Burger and fries block
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Potato Chip Block
Whale Block-W
Truck Block-T
I have 32 blocks- to I spy- 16 that repeat once somewhere
Each Center picture to have a solid color block cover that has the letter of the name on the front
flap underneath and a number of the sequence it is in on the quilt top.
After putting all the blocks out and figuring where they are going on the quilt- Numbers will be put on the front top of the flap so that you can say-- Number 5 or Number 7 and try to match the squares word items -like concentration....
You can make bigger quillow and do 52 blocks or more
Step one Plan
Step Four - sew the front together to the exact size it will be
Step Seven - do a really cute pillow pocket and handles
You can do a smaller quilt just for play
There are 26 letters in the Alphabet so I wont have all the letters in the alphabet repeat
Pairs of everything so they can play concentration
In my case, I bought quarter yards of bright colored marble blender fabrics for the flap that goes over the I Spy concentration pic
Be back with more pics as I finish Steps
I...decided to quilt the back so I could freemotion differently than the front... so there will be a piece of flat batting on the back with quilting and the blocks will be sewn together with borders on the front.... then I can free motion just in the borders for fun before attaching the front to the back in a sandwich. Then I will probably machine tie quilt at corners and center of blocks.... we will see what I come up with...
Sometimes people say .."How do you do all these things at once?" I cut multiples... I have an accuquilt cutter and dies for letters... but in this case I had to make stencils for the numbers.. so it went like this
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I searched for a stencil pic on the laptop... made it the size I needed for these quiltblocks-prt sc (print screened) the picture and then pasted onto paint..
cropped it to the stencil piece and laid my create-a-pattern piece onto the screen-used a marker and traced off my laptop screen on paint and then voila... stencils... laid on top of the poster board cardboard and cut around the number...
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lay a stack of fabric of different colors so I would have different colors of each number and cut around multiples.
Now this ISPY will also learn letters and numbers and can play concentration at nap time with themselves or during quiet time with others.
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Cutting many at once saves time and you are able to duplicate your projects by have the multiples ready after finishing one project to do a second.
I do the same thing with tops-jackets-and pants,etc.. cut out multiples and they are ready to sew more than one.