February's Completed Filler DIY Projects

Wanted to document these here on Friday, but in my excitement for the first Sewing & Stitchery Expo I was attending on Saturday (today, oops, yesterday now...) I spent the whole Friday making me a huge shopping tote bag... I am still in euphoric state post-expo, despite muscle sore and aching feet. I will share what I get to see and do (and haul back) on the one day I spent at the expo probably sometime next week.

So, here are the pics of what I made/finish in February in between garment sewing. (I find that pattern fitting/alterations, cutting fabric and so on can be a tiresome process and I do get brain tired, so other than wasting time on netflix, I also make other stuff like these, before soldiering on...)

Started and finished in between the jacket resizing and relining project:

1) Pincushion from remnants

2) Cushions and cushion covers for my thrifted chair (for sewing nook)

This was a UFO patchwork project started last year, finished as a quilt topper (45" x 50"):

Seat cover (quilted) made during the white and yellow flowy sleeveless top project:

Matching mismatch (wink) placemats:

Itty Bitty Quilt / Unfinished Quilts

Just sharing pics of a baby quilt I finish last year for our nephew.  It's just a simple design (or no design? :) ). I love the colors I used for this though: light blue, orange, dark brown, white :). I handquilted the whole thing, hence why my wrist was in further agony... I am not going to handquilt anything anymore, esp not blankets! And no more basting my patchwork pieces.. I have the 1/4 in sewing machine foot now... I'm keeping the handstitching parts to my garment sewing thank you very much. Urrmmm, although I suspect I will still be hand stitching close the quilt bind... Ugghh...

Front

Front close up

Back

Back close up

I also made 6 orange and burgundy colored quilted placemats (meant for Thanksgiving, but only completed in time to post for Christmas pressie) for my mother in law, but I was in a rush to post that time and now can't find/remember if there's any pic of those.... Those I machine piece without basting (it was just squares), machine quilt, although I still hand stitch close the binding coz it looked neater that way....

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This particular blanket which is meant for the Bean (yet to be quilted) are mostly made from cut up thrifted men's shirts. The light blue square is from thrifted fabric. The white fabric is thrifted flat sheet, and the gray striped backing fabric is a thrifted flat sheet. The only brand new is the cotton batting. I started this one when the Bean was born (during my maternity leave) and he is going to be 2 and a half in 2 weeks ;). To be fair, the patchworked top was done 2 years ago, I basted the layers earlier last year, but of course I have yet to finish quilting it. I started to hand quilt this long before I finish the baby quilt (in the pics above), but I'm not going to continue handquilting this anymore...

 

This is also intended to be baby quilt made earlier last year... Unfinished yet. :) I used some Moda jelly roll (it's called jelly roll i think? those long rectangle strips) and some nice peace sign designer cotton purchased from Fabric.com wayy back when.

Front

Front with the backing showing

:) Hope that Liz saw these pics... :)