More progress on my flag for the DailyFlag fundraiser. This week I traced the appliqué pieces, cut out the fabric, finalized the layout and began the stitching. As always, the project evolves and there were a few major changes in this one.
I was careful enough to do mini tests at each step and caught some problems early on. For one, Continue reading Appliqué raccoon flag – II
This month’s craft project is an appliqué flag I’m making as part of a neighbourhood art installation for a food bank fundraiser (Daily Flag for DailyBread). I will be blogging as the project progresses to avoid the mega-blog at the end.
The design shows four raccoons having a Christmas-time romp atop the iconic Leuty Lifeguard station in my neighbourhood. Continue reading Applique racoon flag – I
This feels like the start of a beautiful friendship. I’ve recently figured out how to appliqué freeform shapes onto other fabrics and it is fun! Here I describe my attempts at an appliqué heart, the “hello world” of appliqué patterns and the online resources/tools I found useful. The plan is to use this technique as part of an appliqué flag for a neighbourhood craft initiative (stay tuned for future posts!).
The two things to know when you appliqué are the use of fusible webbing Continue reading My First Appliqué
Leggings! They pair well with tops, tunics, dresses and skirts. They can be in so many lovely colours. Having sewn mostly woven (non-stretchy) fabric, I wasn’t sure about sewing with a knit fabric that is supposed to have a snug fit. Still the temptation was too much, and I took one of Karyn’s fabulous classes on sewing leggings (at the workroom in Toronto). Well! It was a perfect introduction to sewing knits with the serger and the leggings themselves came together VERY quickly. I managed to come home with TWO pairs of leggings, one for myself and one for my six-year old. And then sewed a pair of orange leggings over a Friday-Saturday, for my daughter’s tiger costume. Score! Four (four!) more leggings will be forthcoming before the cold gets colder: in tan, (two) chocolate, and plum.
Okay, so I was good about taking pictures as I started making the orange leggings, so this is what I will describe here. Continue reading Leggings!
Who doesn’t wish they had toys like this as kids? Here are Madame Sow and her nursing piglets, posing for a family shot. They are soft and fluffy, Mrs. Sow serves as a bouncy pillow, and – best of all – Mrs Sow is a birthing and lactating pig.
When I saw this pattern from Continue reading Pig and piglets