back hurt and makes me swear. I am an ok seamstress (I am no Martha Stewart) and can make an ok product but it takes a lot of work to get that ok product. I am planning on putting up a nice soft wall hanging with some embroidered Thomas patterns on it but that is going to take me awhile. Instead I put a poster up as a place holder. I would have liked to put up a wall paper boarder but since it is very likely that we will be moving in a year I wanted to keep every thing easy to take down. So enjoy the photos.
Showing posts with label crafty goodness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafty goodness. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Thomas is in da house!!!
I have finally decided that the boy's room is done enough to put pictures up. I now remember why I was not all that sad about not having a sewing machine. Sewing makes my
back hurt and makes me swear. I am an ok seamstress (I am no Martha Stewart) and can make an ok product but it takes a lot of work to get that ok product. I am planning on putting up a nice soft wall hanging with some embroidered Thomas patterns on it but that is going to take me awhile. Instead I put a poster up as a place holder. I would have liked to put up a wall paper boarder but since it is very likely that we will be moving in a year I wanted to keep every thing easy to take down. So enjoy the photos.
back hurt and makes me swear. I am an ok seamstress (I am no Martha Stewart) and can make an ok product but it takes a lot of work to get that ok product. I am planning on putting up a nice soft wall hanging with some embroidered Thomas patterns on it but that is going to take me awhile. Instead I put a poster up as a place holder. I would have liked to put up a wall paper boarder but since it is very likely that we will be moving in a year I wanted to keep every thing easy to take down. So enjoy the photos.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
My quilt folly
Kristi showed her very interesting attempt at a first quilt so I thought I would share mine with you. Since I am a bit better at reading directions and had a friend who was a quilting goddess helping me mine turned out a bit better than Kristi's. The problem with my half finished quilt is that when I prewashed my fabric it shrunk enough that there was not enough of one of my fabrics to actually finish the quilt which was supposed to be a queen size. I am thinking about making it into a twin quilt for Evan when he out grows his toddler bed, but it has nothing to do with Thomas the train so I am not sure he would really even like it.
Here is a close up of the squares. I did not cut out them individually instead I cut long strips of fabric and sewed them together according to the pattern. Then I cut them across and sewed those into bigger blocks which were then sewed together to make the big quilt. The green heart fabric is the evil not enough to finish the quilt fabric. I went back to the store but it was all gone and no more was to be ordered.
Here is a shot that shows you the total effect of the quilt. There would have been sashing around it to help bring the whole pattern together. I would have had to hand quilt it, so maybe it was best that I never finished it since that would have been a large undertaking.
quilting quilts crafts
Here is a close up of the squares. I did not cut out them individually instead I cut long strips of fabric and sewed them together according to the pattern. Then I cut them across and sewed those into bigger blocks which were then sewed together to make the big quilt. The green heart fabric is the evil not enough to finish the quilt fabric. I went back to the store but it was all gone and no more was to be ordered.
Here is a shot that shows you the total effect of the quilt. There would have been sashing around it to help bring the whole pattern together. I would have had to hand quilt it, so maybe it was best that I never finished it since that would have been a large undertaking.quilting quilts crafts
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)
Posts
