This month hasn't been a particularly productive one on the making front. It started well enough, with my making progress with a scrappy quilt for the shed. I got the quilt top done over Easter weekend, along with making lots more fabric yarn for another rug.
We then went away for a few days to Yorkshire and when we got back, I progressed to sandwiching the quilt and started to machine quilt a few rows, but I ran into some difficulties, due mainly to the thickness of the quilt and gave up after a few rows. I haven't picked it up since. Here's a picture of where I'm at with it currently:
(Spot the rainbow from the crystal I have hanging in the window)
There is no hurry for this quilt. I'd like to get it completed by the autumn, so that it can be used when the weather gets cooler, but if I don't, it's not a problem.
Throughout the first couple of weeks of the month, I did steadily progress with my Kingsize hexi quilt. I'm still filling in the edges, but am slowly getting there. It was a bigger job than I thought. I would like to finish this project by the end of this year too, as I've been working on it for several years now. I'm not sure what I'm going to use as backing fabric. I may have to buy a flat sheet in a plain colour, either navy or dark green, as there's so many prints and colours on the top, that I think it needs something simple on the back.
I did also work on some denim cushion covers for our garden chairs in the first part of the month. I got the tops finished and cut some denim for the backs and then bought some zips, but it was the day after I'd bought these that I had my back injury and was in so much discomfort that I couldn't easily sit for long enough to sew and besides, the discomfort made it very difficult to focus, so I didn't do any sewing at all for well over a week.
Eventually the pain subsided and I was able to sit and tack the zips in place, but due to needing to do some cleaning for a visitor (who didn't come) it was once again left. I did, however, manage to machine stitch the zips in place and then stitch around both covers on 1st May. Not strictly within the month, but close enough.
I was pretty happy with how they turned out. I kept the design using different denims very simple, so that I'd have a realistic chance of finishing them. Here's a picture of one of them on one of our garden chairs:
The only other project I've worked on this month was to start making another ironing board cover for a second ironing board I have. I began making it with large denim hexis, but then decided that the fabric was too thick for an ironing board cover, so I'm now making it into a cushion cover for my chair at the kitchen table. I've finished the top now, just need a zip and then to sew it all together. Here's a picture:
Moving into May, I haven't really got any big plans for making anything special. I will probably complete the denim hexi cushion cover, keep working on the hexi quilt and shed quilt and I will probably start to make the additional ironing board cover. I'm pretty sure that other new projects might surface too, but we'll have to wait and see.
I hope you've had a productive month if you're a maker.
No comments:
Post a Comment