quilting again
Jan. 9th, 2010 10:37 pmI did it! I finished Jeanne's quillow (quilt that converts into a pillow)! It's been, what, 3 years since I made the last one? It's totally effed up (Jeanne, I totally will make you a second one once I'm a bit more practiced!!) but I finished it! (Also, new icon! Which is a picture of my sewing machine model!)
Annouk helped!
Reloading the bobbin is the thing I most suck at; I'd forgotten that. I just looked, and it does appear that there are things such as automatic bobbin winders, and I may have to go buy one. I think only practice and patience will help me better cut fabric evenly. But still, it's done, and will be off in the mail to Jeanne on Monday!
I also screwed up the pillow part. I followed this diagram on the Web, since it'd been so long, and I didn't trust my instincts, so it doesn't fold the way I want it to. But as a first-after-years effort, it'll do.
I may have to take another sewing class. I'm so out of practice. I would never have gotten this one done today if I didn't already have the fabric, and have it mostly cut out to spec.
I have inspiration for my next project, too. I've been wholly unable to find place mats that I like that don't cost $1200/setting*. AND I have all this gorgeous fabric that I bought on a whim from Nancy's Sewing Room years ago, just pieces because I thought I might make a satin-y fancy-pants quilt. But I was thinking it might be cool to make a set of place mats, each with a different fabric. They're all in the same relative family of colors.
* This post may contain non-FDA approved levels of hyperbole.
Annouk helped!
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Reloading the bobbin is the thing I most suck at; I'd forgotten that. I just looked, and it does appear that there are things such as automatic bobbin winders, and I may have to go buy one. I think only practice and patience will help me better cut fabric evenly. But still, it's done, and will be off in the mail to Jeanne on Monday!
I also screwed up the pillow part. I followed this diagram on the Web, since it'd been so long, and I didn't trust my instincts, so it doesn't fold the way I want it to. But as a first-after-years effort, it'll do.
I may have to take another sewing class. I'm so out of practice. I would never have gotten this one done today if I didn't already have the fabric, and have it mostly cut out to spec.
I have inspiration for my next project, too. I've been wholly unable to find place mats that I like that don't cost $1200/setting*. AND I have all this gorgeous fabric that I bought on a whim from Nancy's Sewing Room years ago, just pieces because I thought I might make a satin-y fancy-pants quilt. But I was thinking it might be cool to make a set of place mats, each with a different fabric. They're all in the same relative family of colors.
* This post may contain non-FDA approved levels of hyperbole.
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