Baby bibs and other gifts.

 One of my best and oldest friends recently became first time grandparents. I have been busy making some gifts for them. I already had a sample package put aside. I keep this for measurements and a reminder of how/what to do. So out came other supplies

I make these bibs out of a towel. It’s the easiest way. Buy a nice quality towel. Depending on the size I can get 6-8 bibs made. Cut the towel evenly. I then cut a 6” hole for the head. Add ribbing for the neck and add binding in the colour of your choice. No backing required because of the good towel used. The bibs can’t be pulled off easy and they cover a lot of the body front. Easy clean up.

I continued to make flannelette bandana bibs with the snap closures.

The holes cut from the towelling bibs I backed with flannelette and overlocked the edges. These became washable breast pads.

Also made, the new in thing, pee pee tents. To help when changing boys nappies.

Pee pee tents

And I love knitting these cuddle bunnies. I use soft thick yarn. Chenille works really well.

Cuddly bunny pattern

Cuddle bunny - free pattern

This is a super easy cute baby gift package.

More for Aussie Heroes.

 I decided to start on a few UFO’s in my cupboard.

I had quilted these 2 quilts a while back but never did any more. The pile just grew. These are allocated to Aussie Heroes when one day a suitable recipient will come up on the list. Aussie Hero Quilts

Starting to trim.

Trimming no 1 quilt.

Trimming no 2 quilt.

Back of no 1 quilt.

Back of no 2 quilt

The front of both quilts are very similar

The binding is yet to be cut and attached. This will happen soon.

A quilt for an Aussie Hero.

  After zoom the other Saturday I continued in my sewing mood and spent the day trimming, quilting and binding a quilt for an Aussie Hero. AUSSIE HERO QUILTS

I had this quilt made for quite a while and it had already been basted.

I trimmed it even. I’m not sure why I did this before I quilted as I normally trim after quilting. A brain fade moment.

I did a simple quilt in the ditch diagonally and horizontally. 

Next was attaching the binding. 

All by machine.

This quilt and laundry bag have been sent off to a HERO on deployment.

Tea bags, tea bags and more tea bags strings.

  I received some happy mail this week. It must be tea bag string week. Thanks everyone for your help. I probably use about 6 or 7 tea bags a week so it is slow going for me but with others collecting and mailing them to me I have some knitting to do.

Thanks Susan

Jindi

From my niece Jacqueline

Murray, my brothers neighbour.

Look at all the different colours. This scarf will be lovely. Now I’d better get knitting and I know someone who would love to wear one of these scarves. It will be a Xmas gift for a special lady.

Happy Birthday Chooky - ZOOM - RSC 2022 - TABLE SCRAPS 2022

 What a weekend I have had so far. I have not done much sewing since being unwell but Friday that changed. I was in the mood to sew. Hubby was away for the night. So I cleaned off the kitchen table to use as my cutting surface, put on the QUILTED HUG tutorial on YouTube on the main tv and away I go.

A couple of years back I took a tub of all my scrap green fabrics to retreat, used the go cutter and cut them all into 2.5” strips. They were all different lengths but I had so many. Now they are finally getting used.

This quilted hug project you need 33 full of strips. I’m sure I had plenty and I wanted to make 2 Hugs. I went ahead and sewed all the strips end to end until they were all joined. When I measured I had more than 66 metres of length. Plenty enough.

I cut my polar fleece to rough size and started to sew my strips along the selvedge edge. This is different to how the tutorial says. They say to sew all the strips together to make a top then layer and quilt it to the fleece. Of course I changed things. Sewing straight on to the fleece, quilt as you go style, saves a lot of time because you are only sewing the seams once and not having to go back and quilt them.

As I said earlier hubby was away. I enjoyed sewing away with myself and I kept sewing. Looking at the clock it was now 2am but I was nearly done sewing the strips on. I kept sewing until I finished covering the fleece. I went to bed at 3am. 

Next morning I got up and joined Chooky’s 10th birthday on zoom. CHOOKYBLUE

I continued with my HUG. I made the pockets and attached them. Now the binding gets done. I made the first hug with machine sewing the binding on but my machine didn’t like this as I had many skipped stitches. I changed the needle a few times and it still skipped. 

First HUG nearly completed. This one just needs the closure tab.

On to the second HUG. This one I machined the binding on to the front.

Don’t you just hate sewing on a binding and you come to a corner and there is a join in the binding at the same point. So frustrating. I was not going to unpick and redo.

I spent the rest of my Saturday, still on zoom, to hand stitch the binding on the inside. Much happier now. Zoom finished about 10.30 pm and I continued to complete the hand stitched binding.

I am very happy with my finishes. One is for charity and one is for my mother in laws 90th birthday in June.

I am linking up with Angela and Soscrappy Saturday and RSC 2022 where the month of May was to sew with your green scraps.

And linking up with Joy and The Joyful Quilter and her Table Scraps Challenge. This year we do not have to stitch something  made for the table just anything small. So long as it uses scraps and the colour of the month for RSC 2022.

Now to spend my Sunday quilting a quilt for Aussie Heroes.   See next post.

 

My past week.

 Well, here is another long awaited catch up post. I don’t seem to be able to keep up lately. I’m not sure if it’s inspiration I need or what. Anyway, here  are a few things.

At my Saturday sit n sew I made a pin cushion/bin tidy to go beside my chair. This was a tutorial night workshop our group had while I was away in March. I finally got to do mine. I am very happy with how it worked out.

On Monday we had our daughter and family over for dinner as it was her birthday later in the week and she was going to be working. So we had a lovely night together.

Of course there was a little cake

Never too old for birthday cake.

Our grandson made dessert. Berry fruity dream sorbet in the Thermo. He is 13, now taller than me and did it all by himself while I watched over his shoulder. He did well. Yes I am loving the Thermo.

I hadn’t been feeling well and had left work early so nothing special was made. The following day I wasn’t feeling the best and stayed home again. Spent some time knitting my teabag strings

Donated tea bags

Collection from work

All the tags are off

The strings are ready to tie together.

Where the knitting was

Where the knitting is now

I had a painful Tuesday night so off to the ER on Wednesday morning. To find out I was being admitted with diverticulitis. Oh so painful.

The wards were full so this was my new home for 2 days. The short stay ward.

When I could finally have a meal that I could keep down without any pain I was allowed home. My meal. We always get told to not have too much salt. Oh boy. That soup and mash was hard to swallow. I think they used the whole salt container. I did mange to eat it without any other trouble though.

I WAS ALLOWED HOME.

I had some beautiful flowers delivered by a friend

So here we are on Saturday and I am joining in with Chooky on zoom. I was supposed to be away at a quilt retreat so I am very happy to join in on zoom. I am sewing away with my little hexie flowers.

Well that’s it for this week. Here I was thinking I hadn’t done much but reading this I know I have done plenty. I’m hoping to go to work for a short day and see how I manage.

Thanks for all your caring support and messages.

Machine quilting ruler class.

 It was the Anzac Day long weekend and I had been busy every day. But I needed to get some prep work done for an upcoming class. First up we had a platter of cheese and crackers, dips and wine…

It was a hard decision figuring out what fabrics I wanted to use. But when I was showing Janice my messy room I picked up a bag of fabrics left over from a quilt I had made. That was what I was going to use…

I needed to make 6 placemats & 1 table runner

And here they are ready for the workshop

Now I just need to cut the wadding and backing