I love to lock myself in my room and get lost in my sewing.. This is the result of a late, late sew-in...
My Jack Attack 2/3rds quilt from the Sew along at Lily's Quilts
3.30am.... I must put a clock in my room.......
Sadly we didn't get a break on the weather front and only played 1 out of 3 days - getting soaked in the process....
Luckily we had back up plans in our group entertainment....
Our room was turned into a Laboratory for a Horror themed event......
And we did have to speak to housekeeping about the standard of their work.
So all was not lost.... although my waistline may have suffered
a bit due to more time around the drinks & nibbles....
Back home I had the house to myself still and I got down to finishing up on a project started at the Fat Quarterly Retreat back in June.. This was in a class on EPP with Tacha Bruecher, if I started it again I may have switched the red squares with the grey diamonds... it is difficult to visualize how the finished project is going to look... but I am happy with it as it is.....
I like the look of handmade cushions but hate finishing the backs.... a flap over never works for me... it bulges with a nice plump cushion in even if I put a button on the back.... (ugh - buttonholes..)
So this time I have tried out a new technique (for me) in putting a zip in the back of the cover.... it went together so easliy I will never do any other method.....
A great tutorial for this can be found here
The only change I made was to back my fabric with some fusible vilene to give it a bit more body.
This is now on display at work near Aneela's fabrics, it makes such a difference to see samples make up..
Back to Big Jack.....
I have restocked with white fabric and have finished the top of my Jack Attack Quilt..
I am really pleased with how it is turning out.... it is bigger than I first thought... that's a King size bed it is covering .... Now to make the back up....
and my Honey is home tomorrow so I had better do some tidying up!