Tumbling Blocks have landed.

I have finally finished a quilt that I started a few years ago.  I have posted previously about this particular quilt and you can check it out here and here. I spent a wet weather day recently hand sewing the binding to finish off the quilt.  I decided to make the binding out of scraps…

Some finishing off.

I have finally got around to doing some finishing off of some sewing I did a couple of years ago. These two pieces have been languishing in my basket in the sewing room and have now been completed. A couple of pot holders. All that was required was a little bit of hand sewing but…

A little bit more Marimekko using free bag pattern

Remember when i said I was going to see what I could produce with a metre of Marimekko fabric?  Well I have just made something else. I found a pattern on the website of A Very Purple Person and decided I could use up some of my left over scraps. The bag is reversible, the…

Cut it, rearrange it and put it back together!

I always have plenty of fabric for quilting. In fact I have probably got too much fabric, making it difficult to make choices when selecting colours for a quilt. Yesterday I spent the time cutting the fabrics for a quilt construction and checking my scant 1/4 inch seam allowance on my sewing machine. It is…

A Pincushion for your wrist.

One of the blogs I follow is called Mrs M makes and she provided the link to this website that has some free patterns for using up scraps of fabric. Have I mentioned I have lots of scraps of fabric? 🙂 One of the free patterns was for a wrist pincushion. This is a screenshot…

Using up scraps for the bird

Yesterday I did a little bit of sewing.  I have piles of scraps of fabric and I decided to use up some of the smaller scraps in a little project.  A pincushion. The bird is made from Liberty fabric and Laura Ashley fabric.