Crafty Happenings - Week 2

 

Well I didn't actually mean for these weekly progress posts to be the only thing I write but that's how it's turned out.

It's working for me though, having had what I thought was a pretty un-crafty week, looking back there's been much more than I thought.  Still nothing actually finished but I'm not counting!

 

And I've been slowly catching up with the backlog of posts on blogs I follow, I'm under 100 so getting there!

So, Week 2 then:

Fabric:

 

 

1 metre fabric remnant for £5 - perfect for the replacement cushions I'm
planning for our sitting room

 

This is the wallpaper in our sitting room - I think the fabric will work brilliantly with it and there's enough variation in it to mix them up a bit.

I'm looking for fabric for new bedroom curtains - I keep picking up bits of fabric in every shop I go into - this may eventually negate the saving of making the curtains myself, unless we choose the fabric pretty soon!

 

This silver fabric is entirely hideous to work with (and look at!) - £3.50 per metre

 

We're having a fundraiser at work on Tuesday - it involves an Abba dance routine (I am not sure how I got talked into it!) and very dodgy costumes.  I'm having to make alterations to 3 of the tops.  This silver fabric is part of my attempt to cover our modesty - the overlocker has been an absolute godsend with this awful unravelly fabric - on the plus side you now can't see our underwear through the costume!

We are going to be hopeless, I'm hoping the sparkly fabric temporarily blinds the audience!

 

Supplies:





800g of 4ply baby yarn and a 2.5mm hook -
order arrived in the post this week





This is the shawl pattern I'm planning on making

 

Our friends J&C (whose wedding stationery I made here) are expecting their first baby in June - lovely news :)

 



2 magazines I picked up for a song in the market

I'm a total cheapskate - I do love crafty magazines but they're so expensive and I often only like 1 or perhaps 2 projects so I don't buy them regularly.  These are a couple of months old - doesn't bother me in the slightest for 75p each!



Cross-stitch:

 

Tiny bit of progress made on P's Batman picture

 

 

Quilting:

 

These are the fabrics I've chosen for my setting triangles & borders -
the quilt is 'on point', not that I realised that's what I was doing

I took a trip to Hometown in Rochester on Wednesday - it's a wonderful quilting supplies shop.  I even managed to have a coffee with Rachel so it was a lovely crafty day.  Oh and my purchases mean I've got enough stamps on my card for a 'free' metre of fabric on my next visit - P and I apparently have a different understanding of what 'free' means!

 

They were so helpful in the shop -
none of the fabrics were in the jelly roll but they are from the same range
so work beautifully together



 

I've managed to cut and attach all the setting & corner triangles -these are the first 4 rows sewn together, only another 7 to go to finish the centre of the quilt.



I also signed up for this Craftsy course this week -
I think I'm going to need to some figuring out how to quilt a king-sized
project on my machine!


 



And whilst I was about it I signed up for this free mini-course too -
I like to have a better understanding of using colour
in a quilt






So that's it - I apparently fit crafty moments into my week and even I don't notice.

 

Jacq

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