FO Friday: Tea Cosy

Well it should have arrived at my aunty's house today so I'm going to share it with you all.

The pattern for this was from A Passion For Patchwork and, despite double checking the measurements, the pattern piece was too big for the fabric. I have no idea whether the error is in the printing of the pattern piece but having checked the size of my aunty's teapot (small, dinky one luckily!) I just adjusted the pattern to fit the fabric.

The only thing I didn't do was attach a hanging loop.

It was all done from scrap pieces of fabric and wadding. The binding was leftover from the first quilt I made!

I decided to see if my larger teapot would fit in and it did so it will definitely be big enough for my aunty's one.

Here's hoping she likes it :-)

WIP Weds: One For The Geeks ;-)

What can I say, I just couldn't resist this free pattern. there's a larger version that you can buy but I really liked the small one.

Tux in progress

 

The Bargello Is Finally Finished

Well this one has been quite a while in the making, or should I say in the "waiting to be quilted pile".

Firstly, my plan had been to do straight lines horizontally and vertically. Then when the top was finished I had that moment where I realised my stupidity. Each strip was moved up/down by half a block so I couldn't do the horizontal lines. After some discussion with my friend and amazing quilter Sarah, I decided to do free motion quilted flowers.

Much practice later I decided that perhaps flowers were a little tricky for me to start with. So I decided on leaves. After some practice of leaves I decided that it was going to be hard on the bargello - it's not as smooth as most quilts because of the construction. So it went to "bag of projects to finish in many years time when I am an expert"!

Then this weekend I decided I needed to finish some bits off. I had too many things on the go and was feeling like I wasn't acheiving anything. So I finished two UFOs. I went back to the original idea and just did vertical lines on the bargello.

Bargello, ready to be hung

I did the binding in white, partly because I happened to have some white and also because I knew exactly where it was going when it was finished and I thought white would be good there. So after a little help from Alan:

We have this pretty view from the top of our stairs:

As for the other finished object, well you'll have to pop back on Friday to see that. It's a gift for a relative and I didn't want anyone to see it before she opens it :-)

 

FO Friday & Jubilee

Ok, I admit I'm slightly cheating with FO Friday. Technically this isn't finished as it needs a hoop to display it in and I haven't got one yet. The sewing is finished though and Evelyn was right about it being a cross stitch owl on a branch.

The pattern for this is from Sewingseed and Tina has some gorgeous designs. If you check out her blog there's also a discount code for the shop. You might notice that my owl is in more traditional colours and so doesn't look as modern as Tina's version. Well, that's because I just couldn't wait to start making it so I used the colours I already owned.

The other thing I finished this week (late last night) was cakes for Erin's jubilee party day at school. Today she has gone dressed in red, white and blue. I was hoping to make her something to wear but the school said on their letter that there would be lots of art/craft activities going on and not to send them in anything that you'd mind them getting ruined so I ended up getting a cheap top from Sainsburys instead. She already had leggings but, because the weather has turned wet, I had to send her with her school cardigan too.

When I saw the sign-up sheet for food to bring in, I immediately signed up for buns/cakes as I have a nice easy recipe for cupcakes. I made sure to order caster sugar with my weekly shop and last night at 8pm I started making a batch. All was fine until they had cooled down and I was ready to make the icing. I was out of icing sugar :-o . This was when Orla decided she did not want to sleep. So I ended up icing cakes at 11.30 last night!

Like the cases? They were 95p for 75 at Sainsburys, which I jumped at because the other Jubilee cases I'd seen were £5 for 30-odd.