End of holiday sewing..

I do enjoy staying at one place for a week or so. It gives us time to set up and sort and time for me to sew.

I finished sewing all the blocks for Plenty of Fish mystery and trimming all the dog ears.

 All the blocks laid out ready to trim

After trimming - it took forever. Wish I had remembered to bring my rotating cutting board.

The Easy Street Mystery quilt looks great in the van - I still have to finish the quilting (and unpick the little bit of quilting I did at home - really not happy with it)

 It also goes well with the curtains I made using the pattern for the Christmas Possums placemat. 

I used left-over fabric from the quilt to make the baubles.

Happy Sewing
Allison

A Little Sidetracking ....

I went to the local quilting shop yesterday - they had a 40% off Christmas Kits and I had a $50 gift voucher - and purchased 3 Christmas kits.

Today I really wanted to make one of the place mats so I left Easy Street pieces on the sewing table and proceeded to make a possum and baubles place mat. This was a variation from the 'Tis the Season.'

The kit included the instructions to make the mat on the front, all the fabric, and the instructions for the variation.

 First I copied the pattern onto fusible paper.

Then ironed the paper onto the possum fabric.

All pieces cut and ready to sew.

All the fusible fabric ironed on ready to sew.

 I used gold thread and blanket stitch to machine the pieces on.

I used a textile marker to make the possum eyes.

The finished place mat - so happy with it. You know what will be in my Etsy store next year :).

Happy sewing

Allison