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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Christmas Projects

Another Christmas over - some projects I made.

A runner and Scandinavian  Star ornaments made with Even a Mouse fabric.

 A sewing accessory pouch from http://fabricmutt.blogspot.ca/ with some fabric from https://www.madaboutpatchwork.com/ along with some from my stash.

A lovely addition to the Christmas decor in our home is this pillow.  Followed the tutorial from http://theredpistachio.blogspot.ca/ for this project.

 And last but not least, these Sweet Pea Pods from http://www.lazygirldesigns.com/

I wonder what 2017 has in store for sewing projects. :)

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Tango

The Tango quilt pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew caught my eye on a visit to Mad About Patchwork  in Richmond, Ontario earlier this year.  With pattern in hand, I and the helpful gal in the store, Katy,  picked fabrics that would work.  I also picked a wideback material - Kaffe Fassett Wide Circles in Black, something a bit different.  I love using wideback fabric as it makes it so much easier for the backing.  Mad About Patchwork has an online store, but it's a real treat to get to see and feel the fabrics they sell. 





So with fabric and pattern in hand I headed home to begin the project.  The pattern had good instructions and the color combinations were fun to match up.  I started off cutting individual strips as the pattern suggested but soon found a slight problem.   Some of my fabrics had a bit wider than usual selvage edge (with the name of the company and fabric name) and this ended up giving me less than 40" of usable WOF.  A bit of a nuisance.  So a piece of advice for anyone working with the pattern -  get an extra few inches to make up for this.

Other than that slight problem, I enjoyed working with this pattern.  It worked up fairly quickly and was a real splash of color.  

The striped binding (also suggested by Katy) was a great idea! 

The quilting design I chose was Meander.  It was done by a local long arm machine quilter who always does great work.

This quilt is for my granddaughter - I hope she enjoys it.