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Scott is a big fan of The Lego Movie ("Everything is awesome....!") so I decided to make him a lego man cushion to match his quilt.</div>
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I am not very happy with the bulge in lego man's middle, but I unpicked and resewed him so many times I was worried I was going to end up tearing the fabric.<br />
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Here it is in use:</div>
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Torihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08085844478475385834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023469304584865019.post-42913033302392750112015-01-24T03:08:00.003-08:002015-01-24T03:08:45.787-08:00Chicken cushion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My Grandma Molly loves chickens. She has a little chicken ornament she keeps in the garden and calls Holly. She jokes that she throws Holly a few breadcrumbs every morning when she feeds the birds and they always get eaten. So I decided to make her a chicken related gift she could keep in the house.</div>
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The chicken was foundation pieced using a pattern from Margaret Rolfe's book 'A Quilter's Ark'. The comb and wattle I added using applique and the eye, beak and legs are embroidered.<br />
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The fabrics are much more muted than I would normally use but they blend well with the quilt and patchwork cushions that already adorn the sofa at Grandma and Grandad's house.<br />
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I added my label to the back because Grandma will be sure to show off the cushion to anyone and everyone who even comes near the house. She has named this chicken Ivy, since the cushion was a Christmas gift. She has hinted that she now needs a rooster to go with it...and that if there's a rooster around then chicks will surely follow!</div>
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My younger brother, Chris, had hinted that he could do with a bag of some description to keep the pieces for one of his games in. It was a bit of a challenge to come up with something that was in-keeping with the illustrations on the game pieces but I am pretty happy with the result.<br />
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I traced the letters from the instruction booklet for the game onto bondaweb, then appliqued them onto the fabric. The bag itself is a simple drawstring design. The silver beads were added just for show but actually serve a useful purpose in preventing the drawstrings escaping from their channels.<br />
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Chris was delighted with it :-)<br />
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This was a last minute Christmas gift for my uncle, Allan. He had asked for a set of marker pens so what better gift than a fun case to keep them in?</div>
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It's just a simple pouch with minimal quilting. Quick and easy to put together and the adorable fabrics do the talking.</div>
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Scott asked for a doorstop for Christmas, so I made him one with robots and cogs fabric. I couldn't resist also whipping one up for myself using Wee Wander fabrics. Fussy cutting the Wee Wander fabrics was the best part.</div>
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They are filled mostly with plastic pellets but also a bit of stuffing at the top to make them nice and plump. They are not a bad weight but for a heavier door I would add some larger stones in there too, which would probably also mean making a calico lining so the stones don't rub holes in the pretty fabric.</div>
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After fussy cutting a piece for the front I was left with a scrap with one chirping little bird on it, so I stuck it to the back with a bit of bondaweb and secured it with blanket stitch.</div>
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I travel to work by train and more often than not I spend the commute tacking EPP hexagons or doing other bits of hand sewing. I have lost countless needles on the floor or inbetween the seats on the train and the other passengers tend not to appreciate me rummaging around trying to find them, so I always carry a couple of spares. This week I whipped up a tiny needle case to keep my spares in, using this long hoarded froggy picnic fabric from Heather Ross.</div>
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My friend Shah asked me to make her one too, this time for carrying spare pins for her headscarf. I used pandas and pins fabric:<br />
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She has also commissioned me to make another for her niece. Here it is:<br />
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Torihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08085844478475385834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023469304584865019.post-67887714955148156522014-08-27T06:11:00.002-07:002014-08-27T06:11:52.511-07:00Sherbert Pips tote bag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It started with a trip to <a href="https://thebramblepatch.co.uk/">The Bramble Patch</a>, during which I fell in love with Aneela Hoey's <a href="http://comfortstitching.typepad.co.uk/comfortstitching/2010/10/sherbet-pips.html">'Sherbert Pips'</a> line. I purchased a charm pack and a pattern for a simple tote bag and I made this lovely thing:</div>
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That puppy riding on the back of the scooter still makes me smile :-)</div>
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This bag is certainly well used (please ignore the dirt!) and is often complimented. So thanks Aneela for getting me into sewing (and costing me an absolute fortune...)!</div>
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Every year at work we have a Christmas fair at which you can rent a table for £20 (which goes to our charity of the year) and sell whatever you like. This year my friend has talked me into taking a table. This means I need stock and plenty of it!</div>
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I tried to thing of things people might like to buy as gifts and came up with: ipad cases; kindle cases; business card holders; pencil cases; mug hugs; tote bags; cosmetics bags; passport holders.</div>
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This is my first attempt at a pencil case. I think it's saleable (just about) although I'm not completely happy with the zip. I suppose I might as well make everything a little bit wonky just to give it that "handmade" look...!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These were made using a great tutorial by <a href="http://craftycupboard.net/2011/03/how-to-business-card-holder/">Crafty Cupboard</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I didn’t have fusible fleece so used standard batting, with a bit of quilting to hold it all in place and for added texture. I had to use elastic hair ties for the loops as coloured elastic is surprisingly difficult to come by (</span><a href="http://www.frumble.co.uk/shop/trims/elastic/5-metre-length-3mm-diameter-elastic-cord" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Frumble</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> are currently out of stock).</span></div>
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Torihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08085844478475385834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023469304584865019.post-20816516086743079192014-08-19T05:15:00.000-07:002014-08-19T05:15:42.267-07:00Pink tiger coin purse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Like many other sewers, I am completely awed by the new Cotton + Steel collections. The tiger print is my absolute favourite and I had to have a piece in every colour way. But what to do with it?</div>
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I've been meaning to make myself a little coin purse for a while. Big enough to fit a couple of cards and some cash in, but much smaller than my normal purse when I don't want to lug it around. The pink tiger coin purse was born!</div>
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I quilted two small panels, pink tigers for the front and a coordinating pink print for the bag. The lining is from Aneela Hoey's 'Petal' collection. </div>
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Quick to make and perfect for using up scraps, these would make great gifts.<br />
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I have finally learnt the art of foundation paper piecing. Here are my first attempts, using patterns from the book 'A Quilter's Ark' by Margaret Rolfe.</div>
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It took me a while to overcome my reluctance to waste fabric by cutting the pieces bigger than I needed. Eventually I decided the wastage was less painful than the frustration of repositioning (and unpicking and resewing) the same piece several times to get it right!</div>
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I'm quite pleased with my efforts overall and have a few more jungle critters planned. I haven't quite decided what to do with them yet but might make them into a baby quilt with a bright border and backing.</div>
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More patchwork pouches. Really, it's becoming an addiction. This one is to keep all my icing nozzles in check:</div>
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And my brother requested one to keep the pieces of one of his card games in. The game is about building towns, which inspired the use of the Lucie Summers houses fabric.</div>
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I think I like them because I can bear to use 2 1/4" squares of pretty much any of my fabrics, even the precious hoarded ones.</div>
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Torihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08085844478475385834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4023469304584865019.post-79849010405064618172014-08-15T13:09:00.001-07:002014-08-15T13:09:38.720-07:00The sushi purse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hi. I’m Tori. I’m 27, I live in a town called Solihull slap bang in the middle of England, I’m a solicitor and I love to sew. I have been sewing for about two years now, my mum finally having succeeded in persuading me to make the leap from papercrafts. I always preferred paper because it behaves better than fabric, but fabric is so much more versatile. I have made many pretty things with paper but they are purely for decorative use. With fabric I can make usable objects: bags, quilts, clothing. From my very first project, a tote bag made from a charm pack, I have progressed rapidly to the status of ‘Fabric Fiend’.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Blogs are one of my main sources of inspiration. I read them daily. When I’m out and about away from my sewing machine, I can still get a sewing fix catching up on the latest posts. I was finally inspired to create my own blog to record my forays into sewing and quilting after receiving a compliment on one of my latest projects. I was at The Festival of Quilts at the NEC last weekend and a lady on one of the stands was taken enough with my patchwork purse that she asked me to send her a picture so she could make something similar.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: white;">Much credit is due to Pink Penguin who wrote the tutorial for this purse (you can find it <a href="http://ayumills.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/tutorial-patchwork-wristlet.html">here</a>)</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and to Fabric Mutt whose</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="http://fabricmutt.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/graph-paper-qal-patchwork-wristlet.html">delightful version</a> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: white;">inspired me to make my own. I have several more under construction and a large consignment of zips on order!</span></span></div>
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