Scrappy Sewing ~ Part Two ~

Greetings lovely friends & readers

Yesterday was a beautiful almost-spring-day here so my friend Shirley & I went on a little Outing to this gorgeous Patchwork Shop out by the airport.  After that we drove to The Daffodil Farm & each purchased some bunches of daffs.  This certainly made us feel very spring-like 🎕💛

When we went to Retreat last June, one of the ladies there - Mary Anne, taught Leeanne & I a new scrappy patchwork technique.  I was fascinated & keen to give it a try using up some of my treasured vintage Tilda scraps.

 

This is the technique above that Mary Anne uses. 

 I had purchased a length of steam-a-seam from my local store as I only had vliesofix.  I cut a length of soft-&-stable & lay my steam-a-seam on top, peeling off both layers.

I tipped out my bag of scraps & chose the pieces I wanted to use, deciding on shapes, ironing them & cutting the edges with my pinking shears.  You don't have to do this but I chose to.  It took awhile before I was happy with my layout.  Then I carefully ironed the entire piece.  Then you lay your tulle over the top.  

MaryAnne, through trial & error, has found the pale blue tulle is the one that blends in the best.  She has tried all colours including white, cream & pale grey but says pale blue is the softest.  Thankfully my local store had pale blue tulle in stock.

Using a friction pen I drew quilting lines down my piece ready for sewing.  

(apologies for the poor photos - it was a dull rainy day)

Sewn down & ready to trim the edges.  I just chose to do a simple vertical quilting line .. I would've quite liked to do free motion swirly quilting but wasn't confident enough. 

Edges trimmed.  

By this stage I'd decided it was a good size to make a simple wrap pouch.  Although I've seen them with raw or pinked edges I chose to bind mine & happened to have a nice soft pink binding in my stash already.  

Sewing the binding on - machined first, then folded over & hand sewn.

I forgot to mention I used a vintage cotton sheet for my lining as I didn't have any contrasting fabric that was large enough.  My lining looks quite puckered here but nothing that a good steam iron didn't fix.  
Can you spy the little label I attached ?? 🐾

Front View                                         Back View

Once I was happy with it I added a leather Handmade label & handstitched a lace heart/bow to the corner.  I am hoping this doesn't make it look too much like a Pyjama Bag (!!)

My pouch measures 27 cms x 22 cms when closed, so a good medium size.

My first attempt at this scrappy sewing technique & now I am keen to do more  💗

I absolutely adore the Vintage Tilda ranges & the newly released ranges don't make my heart sing in any similar way. 

 I should mention, this scrappy technique using the Tulle is the same technique that Janice used to embellish her denim jacket with an eyecatching scrappy panel back in this post.

After I mentioned to Maureen about the cushion I had made from her cross-stitch in my last post, she tossed me a bag of aida cloth scraps - in the bottom were a couple of partially finished cross-stitches.  She informs me these are not her work but have been gathered over the years.  I decided to cut this large one down & make a lavender pouch, which turned out really lovely.  

I wasn't sure about this "A" but then remembered my step daughter-in-law's name Ainsley,  so I sewed it into another lavender pouch backed with some Tilda.  My sewing room smelled so nice when I walked past the door with all the lavender in there.  I will tuck this in with her Christmas parcel. 

When Shirley & I arrived home from our Outing yesterday a large box was waiting for me.  Pam had offered me some patterns as she was having a destash in her sewing room.  She'd tucked in so many other crafty treasures - it was like Christmas opening the box.  When I messaged Pam to thank her I told her the gift was a double whammy as look who else got pleasure from it .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

A nice clean new box - how wonderful (!!) 😻

And No, she didn't wait for me to tuck a blanky in there first.

Thank you so very much Pam - from both Pippi & myself 💛

Last months photo                                            Yesterdays photo

Finally, the pansies that I transplanted in this post last month were large enough to pot on into containers.  It has felt like a long growing season for them & I've now moved them from my hospital corner out to the hothouse. Hopefully they flower before too long as pansies succumb to mildew here in our climate, once the warmer weather comes.  

Thank you as always dear friends, for your ever-welcome visits here today,

Wishing you a wonderful rest of the week,

Sending much love & friendship to you all,