Espritpatch

  Wow, what a start for the year! I have finally taken some time to sew, regularly. Not always a massive amount of time but some time. And it has made a difference I am happy to report. I have also started (too?) many quilt alongs, and I know it will be a challenge to keep up with them all but I'll have to try...  I have also managed to blog a lot more than I had for a very long time (maybe simply because I had things to blog about!) Let's have a look at how this month went... I finally managed to finish a few bits that I had cut before Christmas: underwear for my daughter and I and also a personalised key ring. All in use already :-) I picked up my winter coat again and made some progress... finally. Nowhere near finish yet but at least it is moving in that direction! I made quite a few blocks this month for the new quilt-alongs I joined: 4 Birthday blocks, 2 Paper Piecing blocks and 3 brick piles! I also made some reusable kitchen towels that came handy on Sunday when I boil...

  Another week gone by... there is some work done on our kitchen this week (getting part of the walls down to remove the tiles and changing the worktop and splash backs) so we had to empty all the cabinets at the week-end, not the most fun activity, which in turn has taken quite some time away from my sewing machine! Looking at last week's list, I progressed on a few projects: 1. Make the first 3 blocks for the Modern City Scape - first 2 completed  and blogged 2.  Sew the front lining pieces of my Forester coat with the internal pockets - partly done, need to add the pockets 3. Sew the next  Birthday block  -  completed and  blogged 4. Finish cutting the pieces for the  Mystery quilt scrap galore  - no progress 5. Start sewing the Morgan jeans  -  no progress 6.  Make some biais for my hand towels  -  no progress I am happy that I managed sewing activities for 5 days last week, keeping up with my goal for  15 mi...

Yes, I know, this is yet another project that I start this year... anyway, I bought the pattern so better make the quilt and use my stash, right? There was a lot of paper cutting (50+ pages of patterns!) and some careful colour/fabric planning before I cut start sewing but now the fun part has started!  I really love this pattern by Quilt Art Design. It is a 25 weeks quilt along but you get the pattern from the beginning so can go faster or slower. I have started 2 weeks late really but have now caught up with Block 1 Block 2  Difference in light and background between the 2 pictures make the colours in the blocks appear quite different. Already a lot of pieces sewn together! 😀 I also completed the Birthday block for this week, so at least I am up to date with this quilt along too! Linking to  Patchwork and Quilt , D esign  Wall Monday ,  Midweek Makers ,  Wednesday Wait Loss Céline

I had bought some panels last year to make some reusable kitchen towels and some make up remover pads with the idea to gift some for Christmas. Well, that never happened as I didn't get around to do anything with the panels.  Finally last week I cut all the squares out of the panels, there were 6 per panels on 2 panels. I also cut the backing squares out of wafle fabric I had bought at a local fair in October.   I only had enough wafle fabric for 8 kitchen towels in the end so I finished those 8, making sure to match the top stitching thread to the colour of the panels. Reusable and suitanable sewing but still keeping an eye on the details :-) A lovely finish for January and one from my Fettle list . Linking to    Happy Needle and Thread Thursday ,   Put your foot down ,  Brag about your Beauties ,   Off the wall Friday ,  Can I get a Whoop Whoop Céline

Wow I can't believe it's been a week already! We've had a different one this week with much more snow that we usually get and very cold temperatures which means the snow has kept for 4 days and the kids were off school from last Wednesday until this Monday. Quieter weekend too as a result, which was nice after all. I have progressed a bit in some of projects too 😊 1. Start unpicking my Morgan jeans - all done and I've marked the design on my back pockets. Need to buy some thick thread for the topstitching and maybe I'll finally start? 2. Sew the front lining pieces of my Forester coat with the internal pockets - not touched but I've found the tutorial again... 3. Sew the next  Birthday block  -  done and blogged 4. Finish cutting the central pieces for the  Mystery quilt scrap galor e -    some progress but not yet all cut (9 pieces missing from the focus fabrics) 5.   Make some reusable kitchen towels -  done 6. Make some biais for my hand...

I am happy to report that I am still on track with the birthday blocks. I didn't follow the exact instructions for the cutting which asks for squares, instead I kept strips where possible  Only I sub cut one too small when slicing them so had to redo one part in the end But the block came together quite quickly in the end. I also spent some time at the week-end cutting the background fabric and more of the main fabric for the  Mystery quilt scrap galore . I still have about 15 pieces to cut, nearly there! And finally I printed all 50+ pages of the paper pattern for the Modern City Scape quilt along .  Linking to  Patchwork and Quilt ,  D esign  Wall Monday ,  Midweek Makers ,  Wednesday Wait Loss , Céline    

  Yes I know, another new project... but (!) this one is all about using my scraps, what's not to love. And the instructions come in German for the  Ravenbrook Scrap Quilt Along .  The first 3 blocks are made of rectangles and I used only scraps to make those (I can't really say I have made a dent in my scrap basket either actually...) I picked green as the focus colour for the blocks since this is the January colour for the Rainbow Scraps Challenge organised by Angela I joined the challenge years ago but hadn't participated in recent times. Of course it would be tempting to start yet another project but I think using my scraps for this quilt along in the set colour of the month is a safer plan. Linking to  Put your foot down ,  Brag about your Beauties ,  Off the wall Friday ,  Can I  get a Whoop Whoop ,  ScrapHappy Saturday Céline