Sunday, March 21, 2010

Sudoku quilt - reverse side

Here is the reverse of the Sudoku quilt - obviously in black & white. 
Now I just have to put the two sides together! 
I'm thinking of tieing the quilt in case each side is different in size. 

Thursday, March 4, 2010

small projects

Last weekend, I finished off two small projects - a bag and a cushion.

The bag is made from 4 fat eights of book theme fabric.  I had bought the fabric a long time ago, intending to make a bag from it.  A librarian I worked with is retiring tomorrow, after 44 years in our library service.  She is a very lovely gentle person and so I have made the bag as my gift to her.  I only used the four fabrics - it is about 30cm square, fully lined and padded with fusible pellon.

The cushion started as a project in my quilting group a fortnight ago.  To participate, we needed to bring in our buttons, plus a piece of fabric lined with pellon, or an item of clothing.  We then drew the hearts and sewed buttons in the heart shape.  I wanted my button heart to look sumptuous.  I had a collection of leaf buttons from a Button shop in The Rocks, Sydney.  The fabric is left-over scraps from Tegan's Year 12 Formal outfit.  The buttons are mostly plain shirt buttons - I've used pearl buttons on the leaves and also several fancy flower buttons.  I finished it off with ruching and it is for our spare bedroom.