Sunday 30 September 2012

Husband away - Sew all day..

 I have had the last 10 days to myself and have been getting productive in the sewing room.... I love having the house to myself... Don't get me wrong, this can't go on for too long because I am a complete slut during these times and the house descends into CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome)
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.......


I could have gone on later but I ran out of white fabric and it had to go on hold as I was off on a little golf trip to Derbyshire......
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!


6 comments:

  1. wow, you have been so busy! Love the Uj's and the cushion has turned out great

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    1. Thanks Catherine.... I loved doing the Jack Attack.. went together really quickly.

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  2. What a lovely blog post T
    Your Jacks are absolutely great and I am so excited to see your finished snowball cushion. You really have inspired me to finish mine now too.

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    1. Thanks Liz... Soon be time for the ticket for next year..

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  3. Loved your blog Teresa, and have bookmarked the zipper tutorial i might get around to finishing some of my cushions now. Thank you.

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    1. Look out for my Mystery cushion class Dorothy... This is how we will finish it..

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