Last week was a major crafting week for me. Well it was actually last Tuesday, not the whole week. I've been wanting to make a shop apron for some time now. I haven't sewed in a few years so I initially asked my friend Annoyed Angel to sew it for me. We were unable to hook up after PodCamp, so I thought, what the heck, I may give it a whirl.
While picking up some sewing supplies that I needed, I remembered that I had started a rag quilt years ago. I dug out the box that had all the supplies inside and realized that I had it all cut out, batting cut and pinned together. I just needed to machine quilt each block, sew all blocks together, snip edges, wash and dry.
I did this all last Tuesday. This is a very easy quilt to do, you just cut squares of fabric, then cut batting in squares that are one inch shorter, I screwed up and mine were 3/4 inch, but it was no big deal. You then pin two squares of fabric with the wrong sides facing, with a piece of batting in between. I machine quilted in an X pattern on all the squares.
Since I was all warmed up in the sewing department, I decided to tackle the shop apron. It turned out great. I hope to get someone to snap a photo of me wearing it in the salon soon so that I can post it.
3 comments:
yay!! so glad you finished the quilt. Sorry I couldn't help you with the apron, but glad you took it on yourself!
I still have a quilt to finish - and the baby is coming soon, as in sooner than we thought! Gotta finish that this week! And I have a dog bed to work on. Oy!!
DAMN, that quilt is so freaking nice and I kinda hate you for being all crafty and actually finishing stuff. Hee!
PS: Sorry about your mittens.
I envy you!
One of my co-workers made one like yours, in burgandy/fall color, last year.
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