Patchworking I love. Quilting - not so much. My hands ache manhandling quilts through my small domestic sewing machine.
I love the beautiful freehand quilting that some people can do but I usually stick to straight lines; stitch-in-the-ditch stuff.
One of the unfinished work in progress projects that has been cluttering the dining room and glaring at me has been an oven mitt thing insulated with some carded wool mat that originally came wrapped around some specialist frozen dinners I had bought to try and tempt Mr T to eat. (He hated them.) I kept the batting for just such a project, started one, and gave the rest of it away to charity crafts shop (raises funds for a hospice). They were ecstatic about it, me less so. I suspect it of having brought wool moths into my home and have spent weeks removing their crystallises from the ceiling of my little office come craft storage space.
Anyway I went mad yesterday and freehand machine quilted a piece to make oven mitt backs. (And yes hands ached.)
This is the back. The design doesn't show effectively on the coloured side.
Mitt thing nearly finished - just some hand stitching to go.
Love those oven gloves - a perfect combination of the creative and the useful!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Gail.
And it used up the offcuts from the bedroom curtains. (And caters to Mr B's devotion to anything hedgehog.)
DeleteHari Om
ReplyDeleteDelightful work! YAM xx
Thank you. I guess you won't be needing stuff like that in the Grey. Is there anything that I can make for you from the stash?
Delete... I'll ponder it...Yxx
DeleteEverything old is new again. Did you have the tan coloured thread on hand or mutter under your breath as you picked it out at the haberdashers
ReplyDeleteTan coloured thread was selected from the box full of leftovers from projects past. I keep thinking as I empty reel after reel that the stash/colour range will reduce. It never seems to so I must be buying to add to it somewhere at some times.
DeleteI love it! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's funny isn't it that we see mistakes in our own things - I see the trees on the ends are upside down with the animals. If I had simply switched ends with them everything would be 'right way up'. Is that a bit anal? It's only an oven mitt.
DeleteI can't believe I have lived close to 80 years and never seen a mitt like this. what a super idea.. and this one is beautiful... sorry about the moth thing.
ReplyDeleteOh well even moths have to live. I just wish they would have lived somewhere else.
DeleteI like the oven mitt - the quilting is most attractive. Commiserations on the moths.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good mitt. A kindred spirit who keeps all kinds of things for craft reasons.
ReplyDeleteNice work.
ReplyDeleteI do both patchwork and quilting by hand. It is slower....but...
The only time I have used my handraulic Singer was to join plain pieces for a slightly wider quilt back
Patchwork is so clever, I use to do quilting and I found that hugely satisfying.
ReplyDeleteI’m like you. I’ve still got that quilt waiting to be quilted I dread thinking of the pain not only in my hands but arms and back.
ReplyDeleteStraight lines like you. Simple but they do look ok.
The oven mitt is adorable