{"id":712,"date":"2023-09-24T04:32:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T03:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/?p=712"},"modified":"2023-09-24T14:36:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T13:36:45","slug":"beautiful-projects-from-a-quilters-stash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/beautiful-projects-from-a-quilters-stash\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful projects from a quilters stash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I put out the universe that I needed a pile of scraps so I could try doing free motion applique. To do applique you need a stash of lots of colors and prints to be able to color in the picture you wish to create. My stash is lacking. So I made a wish in my heart for scraps to find their way to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not too long after my dreams were answered! A fellow member of a small quilt group<\/a> was given a woman’s fabric collection from her craft room. It had little nuggets of UFO (unfinished object) sprinkled in the pile. She offered it to us. I scooped up all the little pieces- I was thrilled! When I got home and saw the pile of little tiny pieces of bits and bobs and for the most part, no piece that was bigger than 3 inches- I asked myself \u201cWhat did I get myself into?\u201d– I am clearly crazy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Daunted by this huge pile, I pulled out one color grouping. It is burgundy and green. She clearly had done a quilt in this grouping of fabric. There were some sections of strips of fabric sewn together left. And come selvedge irregular ends of the sewn together strips. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a new puppy who needs lots of attention so I wanted to do some sewing in the living room. (my main sewing machine is set up in a sewing room that puppies are not allowed in)\u00a0 I bought an antique sewing machine a year ago. Its FeatherWeight Singer sewing machine from 1929. The same kind of sewing machine my mother owned as I grew up. In my early days I learned to sew my doll clothes on it. So it was a passion purchase but I had never pulled it out of the case to actually use. I decided this was the perfect excuse to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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I am a really good sewer, but every machine has its own personality. With this Singer sewing machine I I hit a learning curve on how it handles. It feels so different to use. It is lovely and I got the hang of it. It will just take time to get to where I use it without needing to think about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pieced most of my projects together with the antique machine but when I wanted to do the top stitching and quilt it I wanted to use my Pfaff. It has many features that just make sewing easier and I am more confident using it.  Some features include: a wider neck to fit the projects in and a walking foot to feed the quilting stuff through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I didn’t have large pieces of fabric and I didnt use any other fabrics other than what was in this stash, I think my projects may be a bit busy. But I am deciding to not overthink it. And definitely feel that shopping for more matching fabric destroys the whole point of the scrapy project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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I created 5 Reading pocket pillows 14 x 14. 2 pencil pouches and 4 book marks. (And two mini pillows – sewing pocket pincushions- not finished yet so not shown here). the bookmarks need some tassels – so not finished yet either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took me two days to complete this so far. I am really proud of myself for using almost every last scrap of fabric into usable products. Practically no waste whatsoever.\u00a0 I imagine the original sewer would be really happy that their UFOs found their way into the world. Such a good girl, right? \u2026but didnt I just forget what my original wish was? I didn’t leave any fabric scraps big enough of being worthy of doing an applique!!!! Can you believe it!!!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here is the small pile of what is left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next is to give the a the projects a final pressing. And of course as I was turning them right side out one of the invisible zipper busts! UGH, so I have to rip one out and rework it all over. So it is not done… sigh. I was really ready to be done with this project. Once I do that I’ll get them all ready for a proper photoshoot and then list them for sale in the cushions section<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the Reading Pocket pillows before being pressed and stuffed. It has my Ipad in it to show how nicely it will fit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pillow reading pocket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pillow reading pocket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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many of the things made in this project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I put out the universe that I needed a pile of scraps so I could try doing free motion applique. To do applique you need a stash of lots of colors and prints to be able to color in the picture you wish to create. My stash is lacking. So I made a wish in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[149,138,139,140,141,99,143,145,147,150],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sewing-projects","tag-antique","tag-fme","tag-freemotion","tag-pillow","tag-pocket","tag-quilt","tag-reading","tag-scrapy","tag-scrapyproject","tag-singer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/P-011_sewing_on_singer1928-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalcreatures.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}