Palette Cleanser

A pause, following all the trimming of the HSTs and QSTs of the scrappy quilt that I'm working on.

These bits and bobs match the quilt that I made DD2 for uni.

This little fabric bowl is just for me - foot cream, plasters etc have to live somewhere, but I decided that they could have a mini fabric bucket of beauty.

And it was time to renew the washable face wipes too, adding new fabrics for my daughters.

Fun small projects are always so satisfying, aren't they?
 

Blocks Complete!

Not a great photo - but I've completed all nine blocks and I'm really happy with the way that they sit together to make the additional hearts.

However, I've put it aside for a couple of days, so that I can have a think about how to complete it.  It's 54" square, and I think that I'd like it to be a tiny bit bigger.  I can either use a single fabric to add a border, or, as it's a scrappy quilt, dive into my left over 2.5" scraps and make a border from them.

Decisions, decisions!
 

Making a Start

I've been working on a scrap quilt, with a pattern called Love you Scraps by Mary Anne Warren, which was published in LoveQuilting Magazine recently.

It's involved A LOT of trimming!

However, it's always satisfying when you get to the piles of squares in their colour families....  this shows them before the larger HSTs became QSTs!

And here is some of the Love from the quilts name.

I did my best to keep them scrappy, but I have to confess that my red scrap bag is a little light on scraps big enough for the quilt!

Now I've reached the stage of making the blocks - there will be nine.

Can you see those red HSTs and QSTs?  When the blocks go together they will form extra hearts - isn't that cute?  I'm really looking forward to the final assembly! 

 So, these are the first two blocks complete.  I'm hoping to have time to complete the other seven this week, and make the quilt top.

Bits and Bobs

Using up some of the excess fabric from the project (I shall probably make cushion covers and other things too!), I made this bag.  It might be used for transporting the quilt (I made it the right size for that!), but I also think that it would make a great laundry bag too.  Easy to hang on the back of a door!

It's completed reversible.  Fun fabrics either way.  And this one was quilted from the front of the fox fabric, so I was able to avoid sewing over any of the foxes.

I also carried on with another 'set' - this time of travel items that I made last year (also for DD2), using some of the left over fabrics.

This was set out as a splashproof glasses case - but given to my daughter as a waterproof-ish bikini carrier, for those days when you end up having an early dip and not wanting your wet bikini to make everything else that you are carrying to get too damp!

Perfect size for that.

Sorry that I can't attribute the designer.  I think that it was through sewcanshe - but I'm not sure, sorry!

Enjoy looking at the patterns there anyway - always fun stuff to find!

Anyway, it's a basic zipper pouch with clear plastic so that it's more or less waterproof.

Keep enjoying sewing fun stuff!