The TeaCup Quilt

I started writing this post a week ago, at which time I started it with the line, “Well August is upon us. How on earth did that happen!?”, and now we’re two weeks in. How on earth did THAT happen?!

Back in April we (read: our craft group) started working on a teacup quilt. It was one of those things where we loved this pretty tea party fabric, and wanted to make a wall hanging out of it, but it didn’t belong to a pattern we liked (or as far as were aware, any pattern at all).

So Nana set out to make her own pattern with the odd shaped sections of fabric we had. Lets just say that it has NOT been an easy task, hence it being August already, and we’ve not started it.

Last Tuesday at craft group we decided to bite the bullet and sacrifice parts of the fabric in order to easy the planning and quilt making process.

I think it’s going to work well once it’s all put together. We’ve divided the quilt into three sections, so tomorrow we plan on putting the first section together, and then I can start the embroidery for it as well.

This is going to make my list of quite big projects rather long… Hopefully I have them all finished by the end of the year!

Tags: planning, processpledge, quilt, Sewing, teacup, wall hanging

Friday?? I don’t think so…

Saturday night my dress looked like this:

Sunday night the bits were at least cut out!

It’s pretty safe to say that my ‘frock by friday’ is taking a bit more then the one week it was meant to be made in! I hope to have it done by NEXT Friday!

So far it’s been pretty easy. The fabric I’ve chosen isn’t very easy to cut with the rotary cutter, which is a real pain. I’ve been trying to cut with the scissors as much as possible, but I don’t cut in the most straight of lines, so we’ll have to wait and see how it turns out!!

Have you been sewing anything lately?

Tags: dress, frockbyfriday, grey, Sewing