Sewing via the Screen

Yesterday Chookyblue organised another fun Zoom day.    At one point there was  just over 20 of us from all over the world on the screen at once.   I had organised to work on finishing off the coasters that I started on Friday night which I did.

Mid morning Miss M phoned to say that she would like to Facetime with grandpa and me so I signed off from the chook shed and Miss M kept us entertained for over 2 hours by reading, colouring in, showing us her collection of pretty beads and then it was onto dressing up her paper dolls.   I remember playing with paper dolls when I was her age.    

By then it was lunchtime.   After lunch I retrieved some washing off the line and got around to ironing some binding for the placemats and a Christmas runner.

Time to head back into the chookshed and join in with the rest of the hens again.   By this time - mid afternoon - most of the overseas participants had signed off and it was those from Downunder and Lou from NZ  who were left.    

Thanks Chooky for organsing another fun sewing day.

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FNwF

An early start was made in the sewing room yesterday seeing that my social life has been curtailed.  Not wanting to waste the last piece of  blue scrap a decision was made up make up 4 coasters to match the tablerunner and placemats  - which are under construction.  Progress so far.

I did finish off knitting the first beanie and sewed it up last night while watching BHG.

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Keeping busy

This pile of leftovers from the tablerunner will be used to make a couple of placemats for when hubs and I have breakfast at the kitchen bench.     This will be my OMG for July.  

When they are finished the next project on the list will be to start on making some tablerunners for the hospital auxillary Christmas stall which will be held early December - COVID permitting. 

The stall which was to be held this weekend at the local shopping centre has been cancelled so the hot mats will sit in my sewing cupboard until who knows when.  

Another item on the list is to make some beanies for the Royal Far West for those  children between the ages of 5 and 8.  A start was made while watching tv a couple of nights ago.    

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Here we go again

Sydney has been placed back into a 14 day lockdown with residents only being able to leave their home for essential shopping,  medical services, exercising or those who need to go to work if they are unable to do so from home.   Unfortunately this lockdown has co-incided with the start of the school holidays yet again.  Hubs and I were going to have Miss M come and stay with us for the first part of the holidays but that will not be happening.  

No excuse not to finish off my scrap bag challenge tablerunner - my nominated OMG for June - which I did this morning.    This is the scraps  that I drew

And this is how they ended up

Some of the smaller pieces of fabric were used to make up a scrap binding.   I did raid my stash for the border fabric as there was nothing in the scrap bag fabrics that was big enough to use for it.   

You can pop on over here to see some more finishes for this month.

Day one of lockdown over - only 13 more to go.   Me thinks lots more sewing, reading, cooking and knitting will be done during that time.  

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Take the leftovers

Cut them into 2 1/2" strips, sew them together,  grab a 60 degree ruler and start cutting like so

Turn the ruler upside down and start cutting again

And you will end up with

Keep cutting as above until you have 6 triangles.     Then arrange the pieces alternatively, sew together,  sandwich and pin ready for quilting.  (I kept cutting until I had 12 pieces)

Bind them - which is what I did last night during FNSI - and you will end up with two of these hot mats.  They are being donated to the local hospital auxilary for their fund raising stall next month.     If they sell more will be made in the future.   

Don't forget to hop on over to Wendy's blog to see what the others achieved during FNSI.     

I need to get back to my scrap bag challenge tablerunner and finish it off - it is my nominated OMG for June and also due for "show and tell" in 3 weeks time.

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Moving right along

During the week I was working on and off cutting the sashings and borders of the HST challenge quilt.  All 12 blocks were sewn together, the red border is on and this is how it looks now. 

Next week it is being sent off for quilting and on its return I will  put on the binding.   In the past I have always done my own quilting but this one along with the other two quilts which are being made by the other two members of the group are being donated to charity and the member who set the challenge has offered to have them quilted professionally....who am I to argue.    I see many hours being saved on my part.

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FNwF

Last night was the first Friday night of the month which means getting to sew along with those who signed up over here.    I spent the evening sewing blue strips together for my new table runner  and then trimming them up.  Progress so far.

Next step is to add the borders.    

Thanks Cheryll for organising us each month.

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