Sewing Projects

It has been very cold and rainy here since we got back from Andrew and Lindsay's wedding so I've had a lot of indoor time. I got spring feever long before there was much spring type decor around so I had to get a little creative. I made this little table topper for our coffee table out of handkerchiefs. It was pretty simple but Dennis thought I had gone a bit mad.

Then I wanted to make something to brighten up our dining room table. There aren't a lot of fabric stores near-by so I was searching for any type of thing that was a nice springy color and found a sheet on clearance that I thought would be just the thing. So here is our dining room table now. It's a little hard to tell but it is a pretty lime green color.

I bought a quilt kit while in Utah and was so excited to sew it up. The name of the pattern is "Off-Kilter". The trick was that the fabrics used weren't the ones shown on the pattern and I had to try to figure out what pieces of fabric were meant for what. I guessed wrong on one major thing and ended up having a challenge on how to solve the problem with what I had or could find here. (If you can't tell what the problem is, great! I'm not going to tell.)




Ric-rac helped solve the problem and gave the quilt a added interest.

While we were home last, we took my computer in for repair and realized that it would be a while before I got it back. So Dennis bought me a cute little notebook computer. It is so small and so light that when I carry it I worry that I won't realize I have it in my hand and will just drop it.
Also since it fits into some of my bigger purses so easily, I thought it might be nice to have something to protect it from all the grunge that usually ends up in the bottom of my purse. So I made this cute little bag/purse for it. I used three bandanas in prints popular here in the Netherlands and a little batting. I thought it turned out really cute. I got to try out some things that I've been wanting to try as well as practice using my BRS foot while doing some free motion quilting.
My last project is the one I am working on right now. I have the major blocks done but I'm trying to decide if I'm brave enough to do some more free motion quilting on it and the best way to go about it. The name of this quilt pattern is "Hip to Be Square". It has some travel themed prints in it and I would like to put some of our travel/vacation sites on it - like Paris, London, Bryce Canyon, Mulege, Canada, Hawaii....... (Sorry it's not a better picture. Maybe when it's done.)