Keeping Busy in the Sewing Room

 It's no secret that I love my sewing room.

Rebecca learned early in our search for the new house that having that extra room I could make into a sewing room was on my list!  I could have just used one of the spare bedrooms, but when I saw the extra room in the lower level of this house, with may outlets on the wall, no closets, and a table that the owners were leaving.....I knew it would be perfect. 

And it is!

In the last few weeks I have either finished or started several projects.  One of them was the quilt for Katie Blandford that her grandmother Susan Hundley Thompson had started but didn't finish before she died.  Michelle, Susan's daughter, asked me to finish the quilt that her mother had started.  I had had the boxes of fabric for several months, but there were other projects that needed attention first.  After Christmas seemed like a good time to focus on it.

 

The next project was a t-shirt quilt.  Soon after the pandemic was declared and schools went to virtual learning, Matt cleaned out his closet and drawers.  He collected a number of baseball and other CP t-shirts that would be perfect for a quilt.  Could I do that?  Of course.  But during the pandemic there was no interfacing for stabilizer to be found and when it finally was available, the cost was extremely high.   That project had been put on the back burner also but after digging in the chest of drawers in the sewing room for something else, I found a packet of t-shirt stabilizer that I could use for his shirts.  It worked.  

 

 

I really like quick and easy.  Plus I like a pattern that will tell me how much fabric to buy, how to cut the strips needed from each piece, and how to put it all together.  I bought two 3 yard quilt books several months ago.  I used one pattern for Lindsey Geyer's first baby quilt and another pattern for her second baby quilt (they were twins!). But I wanted to try a couple more.

One day when Hilary, Tessa, and I were out shopping, we stopped at JoAnn Fabrics.  We found several beautiful purple prints---then remembered that Amanda's favorite color was purple--then decided that a perfect housewarming gift would be a lap quilt.  Three one-yard cuts of two purple fabrics (one with flowers and one with dragonflies) plus a cut of a yellow with reddish purple polka dots, and three yards of purple with white polka dots for the backing made their way into our cart.  Using the LIghtning pattern from one of the books, that quilt was created.

 

On the same shopping trip we found a farm scene fabric that we matched with a black and white cow print and added in a red with white scattered circles for accent.  In an online search for more 3-yard quilt patterns I found one that was perfect called "Sew Easy"  That quilt went together very quickly and the title was right..it was SO easy to sew.

 

On deck (really on top of the chest of drawers) are three Christmas table runners that need to be complete so that really should be the next project.

In the wings, though, are more projects.

     * gray, white, and yellow prints, one a gray with white arrows, for another 3-yard quilt

     *Hilary's t-shirts that have been in hags for several years

      *more Christmas fabric for more table runners (no excuse for not having time to make them before Christmas 2021

     *a charm pack of camera prints that need to have something done with them

     * some fairy tale prints that have been cut and partially sewn but have come to a standstill until I can figure out what I really want to do with them

     *a pack of blue snowmen strips for me!

Think I have enough projects to work on?  Those will definitely keep me out of trouble!  Or maybe not, because going to a fabric store (not just JoAnn's or Hobby Lobby but a REAL honest to goodness fabric store is always dangerous and doing that is in the plans for the next couple of weeks)

Yes, I love my sewing room!  Can't you tell?