The lovely sunny weather we have been enjoying has meant I don't want to spend too much time in my sewing room. My current knitting project is big so I haven't wanted to do that either. The solution? English Paper Piecing whilst sitting in my favourite chair in my most favourite spot in the garden!
These are 1" diamonds and they're all organic cotton.This is a slow project, I'm talking years here, not months, and I'm just making it up as I go along. When I've made a few of these, I'll switch to a different shape. I've no idea how big this will get. I may be in my dotage before it becomes something useful, but for now I'm enjoying a few minutes each day sitting in the garden english paper piecing!
These are my blocks for this month's Siblings Together Bee. This was a great block to make - quick and fun and all made from scraps!
This is the sewing that has taken most of my time over the past few weeks, but is not the most exciting thing to photograph!
It is a set of organic cotton bed linen for my eldest son and daughter in law in Canada. I've made a fitted bottom sheet, a flat top sheet, a duvet cover and four pillow cases and edged them with one of the decorative stitches on my machine.
These were very easy to sew and ended up costing about half the price of bought ones. The hardest part was manoeuvring a very large amount of very wide fabric and cutting it up.
The fabric is cotton percale from the Organic Textile Company
I love the English paper piecing! The black and white print that interrupts the solids really pops out. And the table runners will be beautiful.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's taken me quite a few years to collect together enough organic fabrics with small prints to consider using them in a quilt or similar project. It makes all those impulse purchases worthwhile!
ReplyDeleteThe EPP is very pretty. It's good to have a long term project. The dress fabric is pretty too.
ReplyDeleteLovely projects, the dress fabric is so pretty!
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