I had a day of sewing that started off with a little beanbag for Mike’s spacephone. We’ve been listening to his iphone as we drift off to sleep at night and thought it would be nice to have a little dock for it. Mike also uses it for his alarm clock. All I did was cut two six-inch squares, sew around 3 1/2 edges, filled it about 2/3 full with dried lentils and sewed it shut. Instead of laying it flat, I made a fold in the bottom so it kind of sits like a triangle.
Since I had the sewing machine out and after seeing Cynthia’s and the Ookie’s quilts, I thought I’d try a mini-quilt. But opted, instead, to make a quilted table runner. And instead of making a bunch of fancy blocks, I make 1 log cabin blog and two additional “blocks” that consisted of 3 strips sewn together. I didn’t think I was ready for lots of math and all that measuring. So I sewed my three blocks together, made a quilt sandwich and did a big whack of freestyle stitching. Turned out that’s my favourite part. I just doodled on the quilt with the sewing machine and I really like how it turned out. I think I should do more of that. Here’s the photo:
Tada! You may have noticed that I sewed the binding on backwards. I sewed the binding on by hand on the front…carefully. I learned from that one. And something else I learned? My favourite part of quilting? Stitching random designs on the fabric with the sewing machine. Maybe I should just skip the rest and just make quilt sandwiches to stitch my doodles on.
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i love the sock monkey fabric. i was at the ashtons’ this weekend and miss carlie has fabulous monkey face pajamas … she told me that i should have bought a pair when *i* was 4.
Both projects look great! I love the little iPod beanbag. A friend of my just mentioned the other day that she also falls asleep listening to books on tape on her phone — I bet she’d love something like this! And the table runner looks great! I love the quilt doodling. I’m too afraid of the sewing machine to try something like that. You know, Rollie the cat looooooves quilt batting. I wonder if you quilted fabric to batting if Oscar would like sitting on it…
That is so inspiring. Love the monkeys. Such a simple idea and works well. Terrific.
I do need to dig out my sewing machine for many reasons. Thanks.
Awesome!!! It turned out so great! Freestylin’ is fun isn’t it?! I was thinking of doing a practice one, just a big runner or something with one piece of material and just stitch all over it…!
I would seriously pay you to make one of those bean bag things for me. I use my itouch (cause I’m not fancy enough for a phone) in the kitchen so I can read recipes of the net and that would be PERFECT! Email me if you are interested. I don’t care what fabric
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