Using up more scraps

 Continuing with my clean up piles I finished off some placemats.

And a Xmas zippered placemat

I have put a napkin and cutlery in the pocket. This one is for me to use.

Then the smaller scraps 

were made into pin cushions.

They are good to put a few binding clips on and your sewing needle when stitching your bindings or other hand projects.

I want to get about 40 of these made by December. I am well on the way. I have about 14 already. I will continue to make these with the leftovers of other projects. It’s a finish up year…

Advent calendar finishes . CHOOKSHED January Challenge

 I have finished three small items from my Chandlers Cottage Advent Calendar.

My bookmark. I have stitched all the flowers.

The bookmark is completed

Here it is inside a book I’m reading.

And my Xmas decoration. The one I ran out of thread. I added in some Christmas red for the pot.

The loop has also been made.

How cute does this hanger look.

Only small but that is no.6 of the CHOOKSHED 2025 Challenge.

Linky page

I also snuck in another of the advent calendar. This was what was in the envelope. Beautiful shimmering green fabric and a lovely reel of thread.

And the pattern for a pot holder, mug rug or coaster.

I used this triple stitch as suggested by Leesa for the quilting.

Here it is on my machine

I love the finished stitch. It really shows up great. I think I will use this stitch again in a quilting project.

Included to use was Wonderfil thread. 50 weight.

Colour - Konfetti

I used a pipe clear to put the bobbin with the thread. I did have some bought blue clips to do this but I cannot find them. This will do as I want to keep them together. 

And here it is finished. I love it..

Scrap Saturday, pinks and some sewing,pouches

 Well I have been doing some sewing after I cleaned my room.

Look at my table.

What did I find?

What did I sew? 2 pouches and a placemat.

A pink placemat. This qualifies me to link up with So Scrappy. 

Scrap Happy Saturday. January. Pink

I found a quilted piece that I thought would be great as a pouch to put a little sewing project in.

How cute is this?

Then with the pink quilted piece I added abit of the plastic to create a see through pouch. I have now put my binding clips in. This way I can see what’s there.

Next to sew is another placemat for charity. I had a few scraps leftover from when I made a mug bag.

I also found a zippered placemat that was made from leftover Christmas fabrics. All it needs is a binding. This will happen soon.

A little date with Jack and my bucket has is redone

 I have been thinking about my oversized bucket hat. I think I came up with a way to fix it.

A date with Jack and it is unpicked. But not all the way.

1/2” trimmed from the brim and the side/height pieces. Then about 5-6” in width on the brim.

All sewn back together

I’m happy with this now. It sits deep and heavy enough. I shouldn’t have to put a tie on it 

This will stay in the caravan for our trips. I do love the colours.

My bindings are now a bucket hat.

 I loved the fabrics in my Bordertown B’s quilt so much I decided to make a bucket hat with them.

I’ve wanted a bucket hat for a while too.

I came across a pattern and tutorial HERE

Thought I would need the large size so it was traced out.

Collect all the bindings

Lay them out ready to choose

Start sewing onto interfacing

Pieces cut to the pattern

Stitched in to the hat

But oh no. It is too big. I added some elastic to see if that helped. Oh no! It made it worse and looked hilarious on.

So I will spend another day breaking it down and trimming some here and there. Then hopefully I can get it fitting better.

I do love the overall look of the colours though.

I did use all the bindings too.

My Sunday has been slow stitching my CHOOKSHED challenge

 

It’s a Sunday spent slow stitching with the air con on. Another 37 degrees day and no appointments.

Tony is progressing well. Doing more exercises. He actually was able to walk to the end of the court today. That is 3 house blocks away.

I have finished the stitching on day 6 of my advent calendar. I didn’t really enjoy this stitching as I wasn’t sure of the thread colour but I am warming to it.

Day 3 project was at a standstill. I ran out of thread. I finally looked through my threads and settled on this darker cranberry. 

I finished the stitching and made the loop

Now to machine sew both projects into their finished items.

This covers me for my   Chookshed challenge mid month  and Slow Stitching Sunday

Aqua quilt named and a little tray project

My local quilt group makes a little mystery project on the Friday night of their retreat. We are always looking for fun, quick and easy projects that will get finished on the night.

So I found this little tray on Pinterest or YouTube. Sorry, I can’t seem to find the link now.

And I gathered my supplies to give it a go.

 The finished project is great. I did make mine a little bigger as my scrap of fabric cut in half made 2. There was no need to trim it to make a smaller one. This was very easy to make and is so usable too.

When it is not being used  you just open the press studs and leave it flat. It then packs away into your bag without getting all squashed up. When you are set up and ready to use just click the press studs closed and you have a tray/basket to store your supplies in. Or use it as a thread catcher.

It has been quite hot here this week and will continue for another few days yet.

38 - 41 degrees Celsius (101 - 106 F ). With the air con on I sat and ironed my aqua quilt top.

I am very happy with my new iron and board. The board doesn’t wobble and the extra padding is good. It also is a hotter temp than my older one so presses really well.

Also taking the time to trim all those loose threads. I am not too fussed about some points not matching. When I trimmed the blocks first up I originally was going to do a different layout where they didn’t have to match anything. I wasn’t very precise. Of course, I changed my mind to another layout. Oh well, I can live with it.

After taking about 1 1/2 hours I finally got to baste around the edges to prevent fraying, stretching and seams pulling apart.

Folded nicely until I make the backing fit and get it quilted.

I have now named this quilt BORDERTOWN B’s. 

Most of the fabric was bought from Judy at Cornerstone Creations https://newsfromjude.blogspot.com/ in Bordertown and most of it is Brown and Beige with a touch of Blue (Aqua).

It measures 96” * 112” ( 244 * 285 cm )