My Teddy rug, RSC light blue sewing.

I know some of you are waiting for it.

Sewing my scraps together to make a rug for a special gift.

All 45 strips are sewn to the batting. I really only needed to make 42. They measure about 45” long. This took a long time.

Now to join them together. This wasn’t as bad as I thought.

I did have to be careful it didn’t curve and distort. Sew one on going up, the next going down. I did them in sets of 6 then joined these together. It was easier to handle as it had some weight.

Now to mark, stitch and cut the shape.

This is getting exciting.

I had to make a chenille piece. My cutter didn’t want to cut so I reverted back to using scissors.

Here it is all sewn up.

And the chenille is all roughed up.

I absolutely love it. Thank you Pauline Rogers  from Pauline’s Quilters World for this wonderful pattern. Watch her on YouTube. I will be making it again.

Linking up with Scrap Happy Saturday , RSC and so scrappy. This month the colour was light blue or green.

National Jelly Roll day, Zoom, Discord and a new project

 It is National Jelly Roll Day. Chooky was having a zoom morning. This time I was up early enough to join in.

I decided to try a new to me technique and project. This required cutting a lot of  2 1/4” wadding strips. I dragged out all my offcuts and cut away.

Then I pulled out my smaller pieces of blue fabrics and I made my own jelly roll by cutting them into 2.5” strips.

Then sewed them all together end to end as they were all sizes and I need 45 strips that measure width of fabric.

A few years back I bought a pattern to make a teddy floor rug using a jelly roll, wadding and a sasher tool.

After watching a few YouTube tutorials by Pauline’s Quilters World to see how to use the sasher tool I gave it a go. It actually worked as it was supposed to. Not too hard.

Zoom finished, I had lunch then I joined a new group on Discord. Aussie Chipettes. I have recently joined them doing some fabric and block swaps. This was the first time meeting some members. While we were chatting I ended up with 10 strips completed.

This is what I aim to complete.

A few more to make before I can start to join them into a rug. Then the fun will begin cutting to shape.