Owls in the Bed Room

     I spent a lovely couple of mornings making Owl panels into pillow covers.  They fit an average size bed pillow.
Around here we have numerous pillows that are no longer in circulation so this was a nice revival for them, well, two of them. The other two covers will reside in my gift bin.
      I used decorative stitches on the edges of the openings, and made them with enclosed seams. Because I can and because I am learning about decorative stitches and stabalizers. I used well aged office paper, a little heavier than  printer paper.  Remember typewriters? The paper tore away readily, and was readily available two important reasons for using it and not buying another product to do the job.

Happy Saturday,
Gudrun

Another T shirt quilt.

      This was made at the request of the owner of the shirts.  She thought to give them back to the person who organized the fundraiser, as a quilt.  A lovely idea.  I made this last year about this time.  It's very simple as per request.  I am thinking it was too simple.  Not one word of acknowlegment. Not even  "thanks for doing this".  I recently made 4 t- shirt quilts for her husband, and was well paid for my efforts. I gave this one away. 

 What is that expression about good deeds?

Happy Quilting, 

Gudrun

Potholders

A long time ago a dear friend dropped off a box of upholstery fabric sample books.

I took them apart, stored the fabric in a big box, and have over the years made pot holders, hot pads, cushion covers, stuff like that, and I recently flung about half of these samples to a new sewer. 

Here's the latest version of pot holders. I am attending a Janome course and trying various stitches. These use the overlock stitch.  I believe the key to using this stitch effectively is to use a thick thread.  Better yet the serger, but that's not the point.  :))

I am pleased I took out a few hours to make these. I feel less like the shoeless, shoemaker.

Rumour says, 'quilters have nice pot holders',  haha.  These are much better than what I was using.

Happy quilting,
Gudrun

Scraps Away

This was started on dark and stormy night about a year ago. An assortment of 2.5" squares.  I tried to keep it bright and cheerful,  not many browns, or greys. An assortment of freehand motifs in the light squares.  It measures 60 x 80 inches.



 There was fabric vomit on the back of one of the neutral squares. Something I discovered late...after the binding was on. Also, by then, the long arm had another quilt on it. I did a little domestic sewing maching finishing.

 Happy Quilting,
Gudrun