Itchin' for a pillowfight
Ah, a break from posts about running. All those running posts were making me tired.
I packed a few more things in my sewing room. The shelves are probably 30% emptier now. But before I allow myself to pack, I told myself I had to sew something. Not a huge project type something, I just wanted to get those pants done (see stack of pants in the first photo in this post). I did do a pair today (Marissa, that makes 3 done. 3 more to go--I probably won't get them all done by Friday morning).
Then while I was cleaning out a shelf, a plastic bag fell on the floor. In it was a swatch of pieced material that was sewn from leftover pieces from a quilt that Katie and my mom finished for me. Presumably they gave it to me so I would make something with it, and I thought now would be a good time to make something using the piece. I made a pillowcase out of it. There wasn't enough of the piece of pieced pieces (that phrase makes my tummy all tickley) to do the whole pillowcase, but I had a huge hunk of yellow broadcloth that has been sitting around with nothing to do. You can't see the yellow broadcloth in the picture though. And I foraged through my scrap box and found a blue and yellow scrap that worked well (and was big enough) to make the strip on the left edge. I cut, I sewed a seam, I sewed another seam, and then a third seam, and behold, in just 5 short minutes (as opposed to long minutes) I have a lovely pillowcase to go with the quilt (seen below).
Quilt and pillowcase:
Now I hope I find the pieced pieces that match my bed quilt (made for me by my fabulous quilting seester Jenni) so I can finally get to sewing them up and have a tower of matching pillows on my bed.
I packed a few more things in my sewing room. The shelves are probably 30% emptier now. But before I allow myself to pack, I told myself I had to sew something. Not a huge project type something, I just wanted to get those pants done (see stack of pants in the first photo in this post). I did do a pair today (Marissa, that makes 3 done. 3 more to go--I probably won't get them all done by Friday morning).
Then while I was cleaning out a shelf, a plastic bag fell on the floor. In it was a swatch of pieced material that was sewn from leftover pieces from a quilt that Katie and my mom finished for me. Presumably they gave it to me so I would make something with it, and I thought now would be a good time to make something using the piece. I made a pillowcase out of it. There wasn't enough of the piece of pieced pieces (that phrase makes my tummy all tickley) to do the whole pillowcase, but I had a huge hunk of yellow broadcloth that has been sitting around with nothing to do. You can't see the yellow broadcloth in the picture though. And I foraged through my scrap box and found a blue and yellow scrap that worked well (and was big enough) to make the strip on the left edge. I cut, I sewed a seam, I sewed another seam, and then a third seam, and behold, in just 5 short minutes (as opposed to long minutes) I have a lovely pillowcase to go with the quilt (seen below).
Quilt and pillowcase:
Now I hope I find the pieced pieces that match my bed quilt (made for me by my fabulous quilting seester Jenni) so I can finally get to sewing them up and have a tower of matching pillows on my bed.
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