Houses + August goal

My friend asked me if I can do some House pouches but in boys version. This has been my fav project back in 2012. It is modified version of House pouch from book called Zakka style. You can see few more on my House mania page.

There are some cars, super heroes, bit of blue. I hope they look like boyish, lol.

Anyway, I think I'm a bit better in making girls versions. Flowers and rick rack are just more fun.

This sweet cow is my fav of the bunch.

I have all those fancy embellishments from local shop.

My girls wanted some as well so I might be recreating the one with paw prints and cow. We'll see.

It is also time to pick up my August goal fo ALYoF. Well, there is one that has to be done. The Ballerinas quilt. My girl is going to turn 8 in September and I better be done by the time. I missed my deadline last year so I added one more house and I really need to finish it.

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Piggy and July round up

I squeezed in some Christmas sewing. The kids are getting piggy bank pouches. I linked those up for Ho Ho Ho and On We Sew blog hop. Let's do something in August as well.

Few days ago I saw felt piggy bank tutorial over at Sew Can She and I couldn't get it out of my head. I just had to make them. I enlarged the pattern using Word and since my printer is not working, I copied right from the screen. Here is pic to show you the size. Pattern is placed on standard size copy paper. The zippers are 10cm long.

It is really an easy and quick project so what are you waiting for? Make one yourself.

Is July worth to do round up?
It went really fast and besides having fun on trampoline I managed to finish 2 things from my Q3 list. There is space for improvement, lol.

Demons pin board.

Ikea ZOO quilt.

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Q3 - Ikea ZOO finished

Time to tick something from my list! Yipee! Not only this Ikea ZOO quilt is on my Q3 list but I made it my July's goal as well. Nothing gets me motivated like a deadline.

It wasn't smooth ride though. I wanted to do some loose FMQ square on it but I only managed very small scale and I was not happy with it. So I needed something else. I draw quick sketch in paint to discuss with my quilting friend. She liked it and encouraged me to do it with white thread just like the drawing. I call it frames. There is less on the quilt but you get the idea.

I used masking tape to mark the frames. It has just the right width.

I added some bright green for the binding. As I wrote in previous post I leave the polar fleece on and trim off once the binding is on. That means you have to sew the binding on front. As I used machine binding for this one, it left line all around the quilt which I'm pretty fine with.

My regular quilt holder was not available so I asked my girl to take the pics. We took the quilt to near field of sunflowers. You can see they are almost gone. We had to go where the field begins. There were still some pretty ones. I must admit I'm not the best quilt holder as my girl was not giving me any instructions. It was rather me yelling "hurry up, do one more the wind is not blowing" :-)

I'm glad it is done. It is just small size 59x52". I do not have that feeling that this is the best quilt I have ever made but it will no longer bother me. The backing is pretty snuggly though. I don't even have a song name for this one. Or maybe: Animals by Martin Garrix. I assume you don't check the lyrics, LOL.

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Making progress

Are you taking part in Orange Peel QAL? If yes, it is time to link up your progress at midway linky party.
I settled on peels placement and picked my pearl cotton for hand quilting. I'm not making a quilt. This is cushion to become.

While waiting in line for my ID renew I made great progress on crochet project you all probably forgot I'm making. I have a thing or two for house theme. This one is from local crafty magazine.

What I really needed to work on was my July's goal. I felt like I'm running out of time and I was also running out of thread. I got new one and I actually finished the whole thing. Yay! Well I tell you all about it once I take some pictures during daylight.

While sewing with polar fleece I recommend sewing the binding on and trim afterwards. It doesn't stretch and does not create any puckers or messy corners.

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Warming up

I'm warming up for some quilting so I played around with small projects. I wanted to finish package for Michele. I hope she'll like it. So first I finished up mug rug.

Honestly I'm not sure about the binding choice. The back is fairly simple and I cut the fabric a bit wonky. Oh well, let's call that negligent style.

Then I wanted to try out new to me tutorial. It is called sleeping bag pouch. I picked up scrap of batting which is kind of too thick so I'm not so happy with the result.

I liked the idea with endless zipper and I used the other half for different shape. Just flat round corner pouch.

I played with some selvages which creates pretty colorful piece. As I like to hang pouches I added handle. I'm thinking about some other option. I'm probably not done with twisting this pattern.

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