Heart Hot Pot Mat

Scrappy Heart Hot Pot Mat

Take any fabrics, in strips any width

(i used between 2.5" and 1.5)

Sewn together, pressed, a big enough square to fit your heart template in.

Thwen quilted between batting and the backing fabric

Draw, then cut out the heat shape

Take a piece of ric rac or ribbon

and pin in place for a hanging loop

Then bind.

I will do a better tutorial including the bias binding!!

Kxx

Be Mine Valentine…..

Hot Pot Mat

Worktop saver

Mug Rug

Trivet

The hanging Heart is 12" at its widest part and 11" at its tallest part.

A layer of insulated batting & a layer of 50/50 poly / cotton

Fabric is from Utopia collection by Art Gallery

Bias Binding is 30mm dottie hot pink

reverse fabric is essential dots by Moda in sunshine

Jumbo ric rac in white to hang it.

All of these items can be purchased here

I selected 4 fabrics from Utopia collection

Cut into strips of 1.5", 2" & 2.5"

Swen together and quilted with tram lines

Heat shape cut out

Hangy Hook attached on reverse

Binding is finished by hand sewing on reverse.

Stall Banner

Stall Banner

Finally finished

Stretches 2m, width of an average stall

I appliqued the rounded letters and pieced the straight line letters!

Free hand motion stitching around the letters

30mm Hot pink Spot bias binding to finish

Kx

The Letter E

The Letter E

Whats it going to say... :-)

The Letter D

The Letter D

Whats it going to say... :-)

The Letter N

The Letter N

Whats it going to say... :-)

A wee bit wonky, it was paper piecing without the paper, 

next time I will paper piece with paper, lesson learnt!

The Letter O

The Letter O

Whats it going to say... :-)

The Letter L

The Letter L

Whats it going to say... :-)

Time for Tea!

The Quilted Teapot

I've been playing with scraps!

And different shapes for mug rugs and pan or pot mats.

Thing the handle could be a little smaller and the body a little larger

The body is approx 7" wide 8" tall and width in total about 11"

I sketched it out and cut out the body and spout.

The handle is bias binding sewn longways and stuffed,

the best way to use fabric on the curve is on the bias

And finished with gingham ribbon and a fabric covered button.

And so time for tea, before bed. Kxx

Postage Stamp Doll Quilt

 Doll Quilt

88 x 2" (2.5" pre-sewing) squares

approx 18" x 22"

With a matching 5" x 8" pillow

Hung over my own 1970's doll cot

from when I was once small!

Although I love those prop beds as seen on Etsy, as it would be easier to photograph

I may now have to tackle a full size postage stamp quilt,

may take a while......

Finished Seed Quilt

Seed Quilt

I finally managed to get out, to take some pictures now the rain has stopped

And what a perfect day to take them.

Although you do get a few strange looks taking the photos!

Anyway the fabric is Echo by Lotta Jansdotter 

5" squares in a 9 x 9 block

Stitched in a spiral pattern

Yellow candy cane bias binding

The reverse shows the free hand spiral stitching

 Laid out flat

Hope you had a great weekend

Kx

A Mini Rainbow of Pillows 'cushions'

Finally finished putting these together, after waiting for the inner pads to arrive in the post,

so I could then get them photographed.

(trying to find a long empty plain wall to do this ended up being a nightmare, sometimes Victorian houses, with pretty fireplaces and no spare spaces, makes me hank after a 1970's super square white box!

No red pillow, as my red stash was low, and no purple, so need to stock up on some of those fabrics.. then the rainbow would have been complete, instead I have a light pink one instead!

Blue 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Blue 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Green 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Green 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Yellow 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Yellow 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Orange 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Orange 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Pink 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Pink 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Light Pink Valentine 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Light Pink Valentine 16" x 16" Quilted Cushion

Two Pillow Cushions finished

Finally got around to finishing 2 strip pieced cushions.

I have been spending far too much time, just playing

My list of things to make is getting longer!

If only we didn't have to earn money to purchase fabric.

If off to Bulgaria on Sunday

To mother-in-laws (without Hubby!!)

Kind of a working holiday, Sunday to Thursday so have 3 days to recover a sofa and 2 armchairs. If worked out cheaper for her to purchase the fabric in Bulgaria, fly me out, and I sew than pay for 20 metres of furnishing fabric over here. Then I get to go horse riding in the mountains when I'm finished! (hence when hubby is not coming).

Mum-in-law and her hubby moved out there when they retired, cheaper to live, get to live in a backward village, grow grapes, and drink home-made wine. The type of lifestyle you wouldn't get here in the UK.

Have been putting off quilting my Nostalgic quilt, but need to spend an hour or so on it to make a start!

Kxx

Make - Quilted 6 Pointed Star

Follow me in making a 6 pointed star

You could make the star out of one piece of patterned fabric or 2 for alternate points (as mine),

3 types for opposite matching fabric or even 6  for 6 different fabric points.

Each triangle is equal on all sides - using a 60deg angle

Mine were cut from 3 inch strips of fabric.

You will need:

12 white or plain fabric triangles

12 patterned triangles:-

If 2 patterns - x6 triangles of each

If 3 patterns - x4 triangles of each

If 6 patterns - x2 triangles of each

Lay your patterned pieces out to form your star

Next lay your white or plain pieces out

Using the 1/4 inch seam, sew your top row together

Iron as you go otherwise you may twist your back seams

(something I do..)

Using the 1/4 inch seam, sew your 2nd row together

Using the 1/4 inch seam, sew your 3rd row together

Using the 1/4 inch seam, sew your 4th row together

Next sew all your rows and press

You now need to square up your block

I use scraps of fabric larger than the angle needed

as you can see using the rulers

The strips ready to sew

once attached - press and trim

One finished star - this forms part of my red and white quilt I am making,

I am not following a pattern and haven't worked out how big or how many stars I am making

but it will be a large lap or single bed quilt.

My stars are also not perfect but then I'm no a total perfectionist

(you only have to see my sewing room..)

Almost forgot

I used Amy Butler - Lotus in red and Kaffe Fassett Spot Polka Dot in tomato

Happy Saturday

Kxx