Project Quilting 15.1 Bird House.

 Ok, I slacked a lot last year. But I am ready to do some quilting.  Project Quilting put up the first challenge for 2024 so I dug into my scraps. 

I like yellow and decided to do like a log cabin style birdhouse for this one. 

Shaped like a birdhouse, I decided to appliqué it onto fabric that had an iron on stiffener on the back. I folded the edges over and pressed them so the raw edges didn’t show. 

I found some batting scraps and sewed them together to make the birdhouse look a little quilted. 

Cut out the shape of the batting. 

Then quilted in the ditch and close to the edge. 

Ironed on some little birdies with fusing. 

Added the stiffener backing. Stitched down the edges of the front fabric. 

Added some scrap binding for hangers and it’s complete. Measures 21” x 17”. So easy to make. Think I’ll give this to my mom for her birthday to hang in her room at the memory care facility where she is cared for.  The little birdies look so small next to the Big House. . 

CPAP hose cover.

As somebody with sleep apnea, I use a CPAP machine while sleeping. I wanted to cover the hose with a soft material not because of the condensation in the hose, but because I didn’t want to feel the hard plastic on my skin if it touched me.  I’ve been making these for several years and selling them on ETSY, and I use one myself. It really makes a comfortable difference. 

I use flannel fabrics and put an elastic band in the seam at each end to keep it in place.  Since the hose is about 6’ long, I make them between 7-9’ long and it gives the cover a little scrunched look when installed.

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Check out this listing and you will find mine are less expensive than the ones mass produced overseas, and I do offer free shipping. 

Thank you and sleep well. 

PQ Conquer a Fear

 Ok, so I must say this one fit into the category perfect. And I was going to make one after I went on vacation, but I needed to work fast on this challenge since I only had a day to make my project.

The fear I have is snakes. And they live in the wood pile at camp. I’ve seen them, and they are real.

So onto the project, it is a wood carry bag for my grandsons to use when they come to camp with myself and my husband (aka Papa). 

It uses scraps and an old pair of jeans. So I got to use recycled materials. I also appliquéd the words Wood Bag (without wonder under) onto the denim before I sewed on the heavy fabric for the interior of the bag. After turning I added poly 1” strapping that wraps around the holder and forms handles at the ends. 

My project measures 11” wide by 26” long unfolded. The handles hang out about 2” from the edge. 

Thank you Kim and Trish for another wonderful season of Project Quilting. 

Project Quilting 14.5 Not Square

 

Project Quilting Not Square

All scrappy top, I had a lot of purple scraps already cut into 2.5” strips just waiting for a project. I sewed them together in one long strip from light to dark. I thought if I layer them out light to dark it would look great, but I hated it. So, I mixed them up in the layout and it appealed to me. I put a 4” white border around it and a back fabric that folded over to make the false binding. Very easy to do. Would be a great beginner quilt to make. Measures 42”x30” and should be a good lap quilt or for baby. 

 

A Book From My Childhood

 

I remember a long time ago reading a book in 3rd grade (could have been 4th or 5th) about Chincoteague and the wild ponies there. I loved horses as a little girl and I always wanted to go see the ponies there. Well, all these years when I went to Delaware to the car race, and to Assateague to drive around with my parents, I never realized I was within 30 miles of Chincoteague. 

In 2022 I went with my sister on vacation to Harpers Ferry, WV to go backpacking and ended up going to Assateague for a couple days to stay in the campground in the state park. While researching how to get there I saw how close Chincoteague was and I was determined to finally get there. 

I do not remember the name of the book, but the place never left my mind. Now about 50+ years later I finally made it. I made this cross body cell phone bag that I appliquéd some wild horses on to remember the book and the trip we made together. I followed the tutorial on “The Sewing Room Channel” on YouTube to make the bag. 

My photos just show what I did, watch the video if you wanted to make the bag yourself to get a better idea of the steps  I made this bag for Project Quilting entry, bag measures 7 1/2” x 4 1/2” with three pockets  

Fight or flight? More like comedy of errors.

 Did not like this one, probably because I did not use a pattern. Oh well, nice 15” square hot pad. I used pieces of the spring colors on the back that I had leftover from the last one. 

Used my seam ripper waaaaay too much on this one. 

PQ 14.2 Pink

 This weeks Project Quilting challenge is pink.

I made a hot pad table runner with Easter in mind with the pink. 

The front side has scraps and solid pink strips sewed together, then all quilted with the “stitch in the ditch” method. The back side was a piece of grey fabric with white and dark orange leaves. 

Used up scraps for the pieces and two fat quarters I was gifted for the solid pink strips and binding. Filled with a layer of insulbrite and cotton batting.  I machine stitched a decorative stitch on the binding. 

Thank you for all the nice comments. I am making table runners this year for the project quilting challenges this season to replace my runners that I sell at craft shows. I am probably going to find a pattern to use for the next one to be more interesting.