Each evening I head downstairs to bed with Wilhelmina. When she doesn’t nap (which is most days now) she falls asleep within minutes. Usually I would stay in bed with her, watching a show or movie on the IPad, reading, playing a game or something like that while cuddled next to my little girl in my warm and comfortable bed. However, I really want to sew and because Willa doesn’t nap in the day and loves to “help” out in the sewing room when I am there, I haven’t been able to spend much time in the sewing room during the day. That means that once she is asleep I need to make the decision to get back out of bed and head upstairs again. Sometimes I don’t make it but when I do it is so worth it.
I have finally finished the four corners of Wilhelmina’s quilt and I have 4 more pieces to design, and make, before I can piece the quilt together. Then I need to finish it and quilt it.
This is not the best picture as it is quite large and my sewing room isn’t that big either but you can get the idea of what it is looking like now…
Of course I am also working on another project… well actually two other projects but that are nearly identical…
There is no real plan and quite a bit of trial and error, but I have been working with this fabric “jelly roll” that I found at the new Walmart in our town. I know… it’s Walmart… but the only other store that we had before was Zellers and that has been closed for nearly a year, so not having to drive 45 min to get certain things we need has been quite nice. Anyway, I found this fabric…
and it is now becoming a table runner… (well two table runners) which at present look like this… it is a work in progress, and things have gone wrong, and what it will look like has changed in my mind quite often, but that is the fun part of making a design from scratch…
It may be a lot easier to stay in bed, but I am loving what I have to show for the work that I do when I did get up to sew.
Of course, once I am in front of my machine, I am completely in my element and content and then I have to force myself to go back to bed at one point.
Wow those look great! The quilt is so close to completion. Does Wilhelmina know about it or is it a surprise?
Thanks!… she knows about it but I don’t think she really gets what it is yet though.. it would be really hard to keep it from her since it is such a big project and takes up so much space!
Wow, It’s very nice! 🙂
Thank you!
Those are amazing! I’m SO jealous. I wish I could sew. Unfortunately it’s like that part of my brain is missing. Out of a dozen subjects at school, all with fantastic grades, the only subject I failed was sewing. I just seem physically incapable of doing it. I made a pillow case that ended up half the size it should be, and a chair cover that fit no chair in existence when finished. My friend and I had to build a structure from cardboard boxes to fit under it and take a really dark picture to hand in for my exam, just so I didn’t fail completely! Ha ha.
LOL.. I have to admit that I was not much of a sewer back in high school. I really started when I was pregnant with Xavier. At first I was pretty awful and the more I practiced the better I became. I hate using pattern though and I am still not very good at it. I much rather make things up as I go along. I might make more mistakes but I learn much more!
Yeh I tried to make something from a pattern at high school and just couldn’t get my head around it. I do actually knit, and can do it, I guess because it’s so straightforward and I’ve been doing it since I was a kid. But even with that, when it comes to the stitching together I almost always screw it up. A couple of months ago I made a knitted toy for my daughter and that was about the first time I’ve ever managed to stitch something properly without it falling apart.
Nevermind.