back to sewing

this post is dedicated to elite. see, she dropped me a comment about wanting to see the make-up pouches in RL. well, thing is, they were christmas presents. and christmas is over… well, it doesn’t take much to get me off track, so with great plans to work on the cw blanket, i took out [...]

sewn christmas presents

last year i made my girlfriends quilted totes for christmas, and since i’m always way to slow to start thinking about making presents, i turned to the sewing machine again this year, and spent a sunday making these 5 makeup pouches.

the short one is the first one, as you can see, i decided it was [...]

kitchen towel

i was inspired to make kitchen towels over the summer (that’s what a new kithchen does to you), and i bought materials for this:

i started it about a week ago, and finished the cross stitched embroidery, but so far i don’t have a plan for edging… any suggestions? i’m thinking skråbånd (sorry, norwegian word only), [...]

knit sack

since i’ve been absent since mid-april, it is time to attend the oslo stich and bitch again soon, and i plan to come prepared!
i whipped together this the other day:

okay, i didn’t really whip it up, it caused me a bit of struggle, but i plan to make more of these (i do have more [...]

progression on the gardener’s journal…

my mom’s been so kind as to do the embroidery on these two blocks:
               
 and when she had finished, the sewing machine and i did these:
 

 

 

 
so that was 6 out of 9 blocks done, 4-9 given to my mom for more embroidering…

travel totes

i’ve made four of these for friends for christmas, quilted and put together by machine, with a lot of hand stiching on the finishings. i had a thing about not showing any seems also on the inside – a little too ambitious to start only a week and a half before christmas… but i got [...]

ready for block D

 
 
 
here are the fourth bunch of fabrics for the gardener’s journal quilt. i’m always hoping for greens and browns, but get so much blue! anyway, we’ll see how it works out. since i’ve given the three finished blocks to my mom for embroydering, i’ll have to let these rest a while before sewing ‘em up. i [...]

block c

 
block c also short of its embroidery….

block b

block b short of its embroidery…

block a