Derailed into sewing

Sherry here...

So much for the crocheted projects, not that I won't get to them, I've just been pulled into playing with fabric. I blame some of it on the fact I have a lovely little machine to sew on that works a total dream. I've also fallen into an awesome blog called Fabric Mutt. I did the adorable key pouch and have a list of her other tutorials I want to play with:

Malibu Satchel - I love bags like this
Agave Clutch - two zippers seem an interesting challenge
Key Pouch - I want to make more of these and have ideas to improve it
Party Apron - just looks cute, might change my mind
Ellie Travel Case - see previous statement about loving bags... it's an addiction
Ipanema Beach Bag - we will be doing a cruise in Sept, this could be useful

I do have photos to post, but that will have to be a bit later because the pictures are on my phone and not this computer. :)

I also have 4 commercial patterns I want to work on, two of them being from the lovely StudioKat. Love her stuff.

The other thing I need to work with is the carry-all I cobbled together for Kate. I'm referring to the current incarnation as the "mark 1" version. I have most of the "mark 2' drafted out in my head. Might get time tonight to actually cut and sew it. :) We'll see.

The UFO's have landed!!!!

I tidied out my sewing cupboard the other day...

I know exactly how poor old Hercules must have felt upon first entering the stables of Augeus, and the cold realisation of the enormity of the task dawned on him! There were many drawers filled with many things, each one of infinite beauty to my magpie eye but damn-all usefulness. And then there were the UFO's...

These Un Finished Objects, begun in the first bloom of enthusiasm, then discarded when a brighter project caught my attention, or the gulf between my imagination and my skill was simply too wide to leap, lay stuffed in the backs of drawers like dirty secrets. I emptied them out. DIY lingerie? What was I thinking? Mounds of used, ironed dryer sheets for God knows what? Bin. Oooh! What's this?

Folded in a ball, I shook out my first (and only) attempt at a quilt. Okay, the quarter inch seams were more free-spirited than is generally accepted amongst the quilting élite but the colours were pretty and I had made the top and basted the three layers of the quilt before I'd abandoned ship.

I took it out, quilted, trimmed and hand binded it. It didn't take long, as it happens. The little one who I'm giving it to wasn't even a gleam in her Daddy's eye when the project was started but I'm delighted at the thought of how my UFO will be chewed and dribbled upon and, if it's lucky, be that little girl's special comfort blanket.

I should really finish that DIY lingerie... but first! I think I'll start another quilt! :)