My latest sewing projects

My mood is very up and down at the moment, the only thing that is keeping me

sane and happy is my sewing. I am grateful that I still manage to find the joy

in putting fabrics together for projects and making magic. To me sewing is a

magical art in which I can lose myself. I am amazed at the things I create

especially when you consider I celebrated my 6 month sewing anniversary

on 7th April.

As I am all over the place I thought I would share with you some of my makes

from the last few weeks. I can’t remember what I shared with you last - my

memory is a bit dodgy from the new medications making me a little groggy

in the mornings.

I bought myself a new sewing machine a Janome Atelier 5 - I love it. Yes it was

expensive but it was bought with money I had inherited. I also worked out that

if I banked the money from not smoking for the next 14 months it would also

have paid for it. It is the best thing I have done, it is an absolute bloody work

horse and oh my days making quilts has been so much easier.

I managed to hurt my back getting the beast (which is what I have

nicknamed it )  through the house. So after setting it up I just sat and stroked

it for about an hour. However I soon got to grips with it and used it to sew the

binding onto to my first ever quilt.

I quickly started on a new quilt, which was another quilt as you go, which

was a Rolling Stone design. I wanted to get this sewn / finished reasonably

quickly as we were having new sofas delivered and I wanted a quilt for each

sofa.

I managed to get quite a bit done but I didn’t complete it until after the sofas

arrived. I was about two days out. As you can see Mollie and Frankie

absolutely adore the new sofas

I also in between making the quilt and the sofas being delivered I made

6 baby bibs, for my friend Pam (who sadly passed away in January) whose

daughter who had given birth to a beautiful daughter. I had promised Pam

before she passed away that I would make something for the baby.

The bibs were finished with Kam Snaps that were adjustable so will fit the

baby for a while.

I managed to finish my Rolling Stone quilt towards the end of last week

and I was very pleased with how it turned out. There are still a few mistakes

in it but it is a vast improvement on the first quilt I made.

My next project has been something I have never done before which is

foundation paper piecing. I have always been a little daunted by FPP but

no longer! I have been making a pouffe for the lounge so that instead of Mr

Myasthenia Kid putting his feet on the coffee table he can put his feet up on

a pouffe. I am still working on it as I am waiting for some zips to arrive so that

I can put a zip into the bottom of it so that the cover can be washed (with two

mutts and Jay in the house things need to be washable). I have made a stuffed

inner out of some stuffing I have had hanging around for a while and two bags

full of fabric off cuts that I have collected over the last few weeks. I have also

made a covered button to put on the top in the middle just to finish it off.

Over the next few days I will finish the pouffe and hopefully remember to

post a photo on my blog. If I don’t it will be on my instagram account

@rachelmorrismcgee or on my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/themyastheniakid.

I finished late yesterday afternoon....