Raevenfea

Maker of various fabric things

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Posts tagged: Scraps

Marking Time

Posted in Crafting

  • Fabric Designer: Tula Pink
  • Fabric: Salt Water
  • Gifts
  • Quick project
  • Scraps

My mom and younger sisters are visiting, so my projects are on the back burner in favor of time spent with them. 2013 was the first year in my life that I didn’t step foot in my home state of Missouri, so I’m thrilled that they came to VT despite the horrendous weather across the country this week.

Books have been a theme this trip and my oldest younger sister is a voracious reader, so I stole a bit of time this morning to round out her holiday gifts with a quick sewing project.

Saltwater Danforth bookmark

This bookmark matches the quilt I made her a few months ago. I sneakily picked up the turtle charm from the Danforth Pewter store when we were shopping yesterday, and added in a couple of beads that I’ve had for years. There are two layers of stabilizer inside to give it a bit of rigidity, and I whipped out rusty macrame skills on embroidery floss for the tassel.

Not bad for 20 minutes this morning.

January 7th, 2014

A Pincushion & Scrap Progress

Posted in Crafting

  • Meta Quilt
  • Piecing
  • Scraps

Speaking of scraps, I made a (very small) dent in mine yesterday.

First, we’ve started Cathedral Windows (on machine) at Sew You Want to Quilt, and we made one using one possible technique in class yesterday. Since I haven’t decided what I want to do for my project, I just grabbed some coordinating scraps that were large enough, and ended up with this pincushion/pattern weight/thing-that-takes-up-space:

April 17th, 2012

 

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