Slight distraction

Ok so maybe i got a little bit distracted from the patchwork quilt. Im as far as pinned it all together, and had intended to sit down and start quilting today but saw the pretty pink wool sat there all lonely on the desk and thought sod it i'll get back to the quilt in a little while, i'll just knit a teeny tiny bit. Well......that was about 11 this morning and i'm still knitting, i don't think i'm very self motivated really. But i do have a pretty good idea, i'm going to try knitting a seamless baby onesie, i've looked at a few patterns online and i'm going to give it a go just kind of making it up as i go along, if it doesn't work i can always jsut unravel it and start again! wish me luck xx

Project One - Scrap Patchwork Quilt (Part One)

First weekly project, thought i'd start with a patchwork quilt, to try and use up some of the masses of scrap fabric i have, since i did promise my partener i'd do something usefull with it (he thinks its silly that i keep all of the scraps that are too small to even sew childrens clothes from, i've tried using the excuse i'm being eco-friendly but really i keep them because there such pretty fabric that i cant bare to part with them!)
So i dug out all of these especially pretty pink scraps, i took a few pictures as i went so i could post making the quilt from start to end.



I started off by marking and cutting out hundreds of rectangles from my scrap fabric, i found a cheap biro was actually a lot better for marking my fabric than tailors chalk, dressmakers chalk etc.



Starting to sew all of the rectangles together, chain stitching to save on thread.



A few of my rectangles sewn together, i pieced together 20 rectangles for each row of my quilt.



sewing together the rows.



All of the rectanlges sewn together, making up the quilt top.



The quilt top folded up, i sewed around some of the hearts on some of the patterned fabric, just for a pretty touch on the quilt top



This last picture is my quilt top pinned to a layer of batting, and the pink velour i'm using as my backing on the bottom. I found trying to pin them together on my desk was impossible, everything just moved about, so i layed them on the carpet in the hall, and i found the velour fabric sort of stuck to the carpet, so the batting and quilt top layed perfectly flat on top, and nothing moved about as i pinned them!

Well thats as far as i've got, but hopefully i'll finish this and post a part two for this project soon.....well, i might get bored and move on to something else, but i'll get back to finishing it eventually!

summer resolution

I havn't posted anything in a few weeks, so since i'm now finished uni for the summer i thought i'd begin a bit of a summer resolution - i'm going to post a project every week! I started my blog with the intention of it being a bit more personal than it has been so far, so hopefully a project every week will make it a bit more personal too.
My weekly projects will all be sewing, or maybe knitting because i've been experimenting with that recently and i'm starting to enjoy it (maybe a bit too much, my HUGE stash of bits of pretty fabric i've promised my other half i'll do something with eventually, is starting to be taken over my a slightly bigger pile of pretty wool i've promised him i'll do something with eventually!)