Like sewing bulky things together, or over zippers...
And boxing corners of bags.
Like this little cutie. It's about 5 inches long, by 3" wide by 2" high. This is my first attempt at this little style boxed bag. I found the tutorial here, at Indie House. 
I really like the way the black and white fabric of the binding echoes the selvages themselves.
I like to enclose a few goodies. Real Maple Syrup is always a good gift, as is a nice gridded moleskin notebook. I've also made a cute little selvage pincushion.
This is Gizzy, and he went to the Rainbow Bridge two years ago. He was an awesome cat. He loved everybody and he always had to be nearby, preferably right in the middle of whatever I was working on, as you can see.
The quilt is at Chris's house, being quilted on Iris. I should have it back next week, when I am on vacation. I will add the binding and then it will go live with my son.
It's looking good, and I am excited!
She made me a beautiful quilt for my bed.
She made the Pink-a-licious quilt for Cassie.
A couple of days ago I told you all about the Iraqi Bundles of Love Project. But if you don't have roomfuls of extra fabric, it was a bit hard to contribute.
Actually, this bag is different from the others in that it is slightly shorter (about 13") and it's quilted.
So he's asking for fabric, yarns, pins, needles, thread, etc. You put all this neat stuff in a USPS Large Flat Rate Box and send it out. All the information is on his blogs. You have to leave a comment to get the shipping address, and you have to act fast. The deadline for shipping from the US is September 7.
Black and White Selvages... I have a plan, but I have a little bit more prep work to do before the "real work" begins.
I fold the raw edge over to match the edge of the quilt top, then fold it over again until the edge covers the raw edge of the quilt top by about 1/2"; it's usually about 1-3/4" or so. In this case, it's 2". I miter the corners.
Then I iron the quilt, pressing the edges nicely.
It's all finished.
Here is the back. You can see where I had to add a bit to the sides.
When I have help, I'll photograph the quilt in natural light, so you can all see the entire thing. In the meantime, here is what it looks like on the bed.
And under the crocheted bedspread.
Yeah, I know all you "it's-not-a-quilt-until-it's-quilted" folks are rolling your eyes and shaking your heads... "she must be crazy, hiding this under that bedspread..." but, that's exactly why the quilt is called...
(have somebody with a strong back and knees help you.)
When I'm done threading the ties (which is a lot like basting), I roll it up like a jelly roll,
and move it to my dining room table,
where it's much easier to cut the threads, tie the knots and trim the excess.
The Laughing Out Loud Quilt is all tied now. I'll work on it later. I've got a birthday party to attend this afternoon (note to self: don't bake a cake when it's 90F if you don't have air-conditioning), so I am not sure I can finish it.
Here it is after I added fabric to all four sides and squared it all up.
Then I placed the top down on the backing. Now it is ready to tie and finish. I hope to have this on my bed very soon!
I bought a couple, and placed one one the bookcase behind my ironing table. Very handy. I keep another one on my sewing table.
Then I moved the bookcase to another wall. I didn't have a place to put the box, until I realized I could hang it from the magnetic knife holder with a metal clip.
Then I got a better idea. I hung it from a small picture hook attached to the wall behind the ironing table. This keeps it high and out of the way. It also leaves me more space on the magnetic rack.
It's handy, it works, and it's pretty!
It's quilted and bound. Looking at that top edge, I think it's a prime example of the liabilities of working past your bedtime.
The sewing studio was so clean, I just had the need to do some work in there, so I made this happy wonky house.
Amazing transformation, isn't it?
You can also cover it with fabric, as I did for the bulletin board on this closet door.
It makes an excellent bulletin board, especially since you can cut it any size you want (use a sharp utility knife, score it once using a ruler, then make repeated cuts until you get all the way through.)
As for the clips across the top of the panels.... They are simply small picture hooks nailed into the homasote (remember the homasote is 1/2" thick) to which I have hung metal binding clips like these.
They're handy to hang a quilt up on the wall if all you want to do is photograph it. And after photographing the first quilt, I just left them up there because it was easier.
And I was a bit lazy.
And last night I finally stapled some flannel to one of the walls in my sewing studio to use as a design wall.
Of course, this necessitated a complete rearrangement of everything in there...
I'm not done yet. You'll see.
