I've had a good run of quilting over the last few weeks - concentrating on my UFO's has been a good way to make progress for me - until this week when life (and holidays!) got in the way of sewing time!
A couple of weeks ago I went to an entertaining talk by Jo Avery at my quilt group, Richmond and Kew Quilters. Pretty much defining what makes a 'Modern Quilt' with lots of examples to show us. Her work is always fun - you might have seen it in Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine - but you can also see some on her blog here.
I bought a book that she'd co-authored too: 50 Fat Quarter Makes. Lots of small projects that look perfect for my DD's and I want to sew over the holidays!
Just as well, as I've only managed two small sewing tasks this week: patching a hole in DD2's leggings (!) and making a small zipper pouch so that I could walk DD2 and one of her friends through how to make them. I managed it and the girls were very pleased with their pencil case sized pouches, even if I did forget to take a photo of them before they were whisked away!
This was my version - which has already found a purpose, housing my 'power block' (remote charger) and various leads when we went away for a few nights.
Not big, not clever, but a zipped and lined pouch is quite a good little sewing project to have under our belts, so to speak!
I hope that you are having happy summer sewing too!
Next week I hope to have made more progress on my Dear Jane again.
Love the little pouch!! And that's great that you went to the talk with Jo, she's a friend of mine, isn't she brilliant! So inspiring! I hope you get to do some sewing over the summer, it's always a challenge finding the time isn't it?!
ReplyDeleteWell done doing the zippy with the girls! I saw another version on Pinterest which may be easier for them to "get" - she used a French seam so it didn't need lining
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A zippy bag for housing leads and chargers - brilliantly obvious! Thanks for that idea!
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