Clover Pillow Cover

I came across this tutorial.

Love it! It's just what I was looking for.

 
I  gave it shot with my own measurements and my own cutout hearts.
I tried a 4 leaf but stuck with the 3 in the end.

I used 5in squares in random greens, the middle white square is 9.5 in and my hearts are cut from a folded 3x5 index card. Total size fits a 20in throw pillow.

 Found placement and fused on.

I stitched the clover pieces a few times then I did it again once after I added on the batting and quilted in the green.

 I kinda just went big swirl and swing to the left with the quilting

I did make mine an envelope back so that I can slide my currant throw pillow into it for the month of March.
Off to see if I have enough greens to make another :)

Remember September

My first go at one of the ereader covers thats being collected for Remember September is the following Kindle cover. I followed this tutorial and tweaked it to my liking /stash.

I pulled out 3 coordinating fabrics I had, cut 2.5in by WOF and placed out 5 strips to be used.

I also QAYG (quilt as you go) so that the inside was also quilted and its a plus that it helped with the time of project start to finish.  Under an hour.

On the plus side, I got to work on the proper way to bind, maybe after a few more of these I'll try it out on a quilt.

Now I gave a Pillowcase a shot too, my Mac was being occupied by my little Miss watching Pocahontas (I actually started it, she came to watch with me :-P )

So I didn't have a tut or pattern available, I improvised, I pulled out a clean standard pillowcase I owned and made one by looking and measuring it, I was a few inches short of the WaterLily print so my top border is a few inches wider than most.

Remember September...Sew Along

Over at SewBitterSweetDesigns & HopefulThreads, they have gotten together and came up with a project for this month.

 Remember Service Men & Women, Creating a Handmade Holiday 

to those serving overseas this coming Holiday Season. 

They are linking and providing tutorials and patterns for Pillowcases and eReader cases (of all shapes and sizes) on blogs, shops, even Pintrest.

I will be contributing to this project, as a Military Family, Hubby is Active Duty Army, my father and grandfather both served along with a few uncles. I feel very close to this cause, I lost count how many Holidays my husband has missed in his 13 yrs of service.

Just typing this up I have chills, I can't even imagine what its like to be away from family and friends, while on a deployment, during the Holidays.

Check out the projects and if you can sew up a few things, theres a Flickr group to post to, all would love to see your finished items.

Heres some great FREE tuts and patterns

Here are some measurements HopefulThreads posted:

Here are dimensions for some popular e-readers. If you can, it would be super great if you labeled whichever style you sew your cover for if specific.

More details about this September Monthly Project on the blog here, http://hopefulthreads.blogspot.com/2012/09/september-monthly-project-announcement.html

blackberry playbook is 5" x 7.5" and is 3/8" wide

Kindle Fire and it is 7.5" x 4.7" x .45" (thickness)

Kindle: 6.5 x 4.5 x 0.34 inches

Kindle Touch: 6.8 x 4.7 x 0.40 inches

Kindle Touch 3g: 6.8 x 4.7 x 0.40 inches

Nook Simple Touch: 6.5" x 5.0" x 0.47"

Nook Color: 8.1" x 5.0" x 0.48"

Nook Tablet: 8.1" x 5.0" x 0.48"

Kindle DX: 10.4" x 7.2" x 0.38"

Sony: 6.61 x 4.68 x 0.38 inches

Nook 1st Ed: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches  

Kobo: 7.2 × 4.7 × 0.4 in

Kobo Touch: 6.5 × 4.5 × 0.4 in

iPad :First Generation = 9.56×7.47×0.528 in (243×190×13.4 mm) 

Second Generation = 9.5×7.31×0.346 in (240×186×8.8 mm) 

Third Generation (newest) = 9.5×7.31×0.37 in (240×186×9.4 mm)

Please feel free to add others! Thanks for all your help!!!

10 dresses

Pillowcase style ranging from size 1 to 4.

I had these all precut and stashed away from about 5 years ago. The 4 on the left were to be for my now 5.5yr old daughter. (eecckk) I guess I got to busy to finish them for her.

These will be going to Dress a Girl at the end of the month, Check out the Flickr Group, we are up to 100 or more as of today.

Care to sew one with me? enter in the previous post for a chance to win the supplies to make one.

Mini Quilt = Pillow

One of the finished Mini Quilts from the SewAlong over at Fresh Squeezed
I ended up turning it into a throw pillow, it also was my first PIF suprise of the year.
I just busted out three things at once- new block practice, first pillow, first PIF.
Not to bad for the first 2 weeks of the year

Pic 1 the top, its the courthouse steps block - with my own twist, the last two rows became the borders.

Pic 2 here it is sandwiched & quilted

Pic 3 the pillow insert, made of muslin & stuffed with fabric scraps (to small to do anything with, odds & ends of thread etc. ) such a great way to use them up- something I learned from the Sassy Blog
the back is a thicker canvas

Pic 4 All done & ready to gift

Wk 9 of 52

This week I dragged my feet a bit,

its super late on Saturday night & I've literally just finished this project.

Well worth it if you ask me,

I'm so happy with how it turned out.

I mentioned before (maybe not here but on FB for sure)

I love vintage pillowcases.

I've been meaning to add a new catagory to the shops to show this love.

Well here we go.........

A touch of pink 2T peasant dress

~*Available HERE *~

Wk 5 of 52

*Warning* if you're in the Valentine Contest with me on CraftForum don't look below*



So as posted above, my challenge/project this week came from a Valentines Contest I'm entering. My inspiration was the SweetHearts candy. Now I didn't go and write on a whole bunch of hearts but instead I made their box into a pillowcase.




We have the front of the box



the back of the box



a touch of detail on the top, quilted strips, ruffle & ties to secure the pillow nicely


and to top it off, it already has a home to go to, ds1 is gifting it to his gf for their second Valentines Day.

(tutorial to come in a few days)