Fresh Sewing Day February

It is the first of the month and we all know what that means - it is fresh sewing day!
Here is what my February looked like:

•  redecorating the sewing room - you will most likely not see me do that again any time soon!
• lots of paper piecing - which I am bound to do more of this month ;)
• my first pattern - yay!
• dress making - something I really would like to get better at, I love my Tova!
• the beginning of a sampler quilt, a long term project.

This week I have been happily pottering about with my scrappy leaf pattern. First I sewed some small leaves with the intention of making a lovely necklace like Charise did. But I changed my mind and made these two reverse applique coasters instead.

I love how they turned out!

Next I enlarged the pattern by 150% to see what a larger leaf would look like. It measures about 7" tall which fits perfectly in my hand :)

So I added a layer of cotton batting and insulbright for it to be used as a potholder or hotpad but I also think this size makes a nice coaster or snackmat.

Now hop on over to Lynne's to see what everyone else has been up to!

x Leila

Sewing my little heart out...

...to keep the shop full :-)

First off I so enjoy a good scrap busting project, my baskets are overflowing with little snippets I do not want to throw out. So I made this set of coasters. Aren't they fun?

I even managed to use up an odd piece of lace and a flower applique that never found a home. I'm definitely doing more of these!


Then I felt the need to sew something a little more zen,  and made this sashiko tea towel.

You may remember I made a quite similar towel before and wasn't happy with the way the stitching showed up on the back. So I decided this time round I'd do the stitching on a separate piece of linen and stitch that to the towel so the backside is concealed. I'm quite pleased with this solution.


Ok, so I have been rather busy there's more!
You may have heard me rambling before about how I get words or sentences stuck in my head. I often hear people talk about how they think in images I believe I think in words...if that's at all possible I don't know! 



Today this is what kept repeating in my head 'sit in a chair and be good now'...need I say more?

Pfff best go take my own advice and sit down for a minute ;-)
All of the above is listed in the shop along with more "you wash I'll dry" tea towels I sewed up over the weekend.


x Leila

{Give Away Day} Winner!

Wow, I am blown away with all your lovely comments, thank you all so much!!
Mr True Random Number Generator in all it's infinite wisdom declared comment #176 to be the winner.

Congratulations Pomona! please contact me with your details and I will send your package off to you as soon as possible!

I'm so inspired by all your great scrap use suggestions, it's what patchwork is all about really isn't it?!
I made a little collage of scrappy goodness from some of the things that were suggested by you.

1. 7 logcabin pincushions, 2. Mini Quilt from Smith's Aunt Leah, 3. Straps all, 4. I found a quilt top today!, 5. Swap Pot Holders, 6. Fabric flower garland, 7. Moleskine Notebook Purses 1, 8. Hexy MF, 9. Pillow, 10. Sonne und Regen, 11. Hip hippo baby booties, 12. coin pouch 1, 13. Tati Primeiros Botões, 14. the new happy bed, 15. Doll Quilt swap 10 Finished, 16. heaven!

 

Tons of inspiration!

Thanks again to all of you who entered and a big fat warm welcome to all my new peeps, it's so good to have you here!
I hope you had lots of fun entering give aways like a mad woman/man. Did you win something good?

I'll be back for some 'normal' blogging soon,

x Leila