Silky Scarves From A Half A Yard of Fabric

  I bought a yard of three different light polyester fabrics last fall and it's taken me until now to finally cut each piece in half to make some scarves for me and my daughter.   I did a rolled hem on each piece to create the scarves.  To make the rolled hem on my sewing machine I used a youtube video tutorial, link here.  These scarves are a great size and so easy to make.

    Here are the fabrics I used.

I've Been Busy

   I finished the polyester quilt refurbishment.  It took me about 6 hours to quilt the darn thing.  It was super thick and I didn't want to break a lot of needles doing this one so I took it slow.  I finally figured out that I would do better to use my dual feed foot instead of the flimsy walking foot quilting this baby.  So with about 5 rows left to quilt I changed my presser foot and the last little bit of quilting went a lot more smoothly.  I followed the seams and did a grid quilting.  I stayed away from the puffy centers of the string blocks.  I didn't want to crush those pretty polyester blocks.  I also didn't square this quilt up when I trimmed it for binding.  Some of the rows ends were quite wonky, but I wanted to keep as much of the quilt top as I could so there is one bit that is seriously curved.   This whole project took me about 19 hours to complete over the last 2 1/2 weeks.  The quilt measures about 52" x 50".  Here's a picture of the front and the back.

   After I finished the quilt top I made my daughter a couple of items.  One was a padded tablet sleeve with button closures and the other is this cute, cute drawstring pouch using the tutorial here.  I really like this tutorial and the pouch is a nice big size.  Perfect to carry the cords and accessories for a tablet.  I think I'll be making a couple of these for me.

The Polyester Quilt Top Is Sandwiched.

   The backing is solid white Kona cotton.  I'm using a 80/20 blend batting.  This quilt will not be easy to quilt.  I'll start the quilting next week.

Animal Print Chiffon Scarf

   I bought a beautiful half yard of animal print chiffon today at Joann Fabrics to make myself a scarf.  I was planning to use the rolled hem foot on my Janome 7700 to hem the edges.

    I checked tutorials on youtube on how to use the rolled hem foot and I found a tutorial on making a rolled hem without using the rolled hem foot, meaning I could hem the scarf with any of my machines and I didn't have to set up the Janome.  The tutorial I used is here.   I used a pretty copper polyester thread to finish the hem.

  My scarf is finished and I love it.  I tried to take a picture of the hem, but it's hard to see in the second picture.

All the Lovely Thread, Lots and Lots of Thread

         I have a collection of all purpose thread in these boxes.  This thread collection goes back a few years.   When I was making clothes and home decor projects this was the only thread I ever bought.  All purpose thread has the best variety of colors.

       This is my cotton collection for quilting.  This container is supposed to be storing a knitting or crochet project, (it's called a Yarntainer by snapware) but I'm not really doing any knitting or crocheting these days, so I put these cotton thread spools in it this morning.  It's perfect, the container is round and clear making it so easy to find my thread.  I'm sure my cotton thread is happy in its cool round home.

          Look at this, 180 little spools of polyester thread for my embroidery machine that I purchased in January after I got my embroidery machine.  I keep it in this big plastic box because I have cats, but I'd like to organize it.  It would be nice to put it in clear boxes like my all purpose thread.  That would cost me a bunch of money.  I'm still looking for other ideas for storing this thread.  I'm not  even going to show you a picture of the box of prewound bobbins I bought for the embroidery machine.  There are 144 beautiful bobbins full of white polyester thread for embroidering.

 
     My serger thread collection only contains four spools of grey that I bought when I got the machine and they stay on the machine.  I never got around to buying more because I don't use my serger as much as I thought I would.