Handmade Quilts~Bags~Knits & More
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| Inspired by an Eric Carle book, I cut and fused fabrics for this dragon applique. It's actually something my daughter requested. She will do the hand blanket stitching around the raw edges of the shapes and then hand quilt it. It's a gift she is making for a very special person. I guess she finally decided to start quilting now that she has a reason to, ha ha. I showed her how to do the fusible applique on a smaller quilt she is currently working on and she didn't like doing all the cutting and tracing of the pieces, but she liked doing the hand stitching. So I contributed with this one by choosing the fabric colors and cutting out and fusing the pieces onto the background fabric, and now the rest is for her to do. I should have taken a photo of the first applique quilt too, but since she's working on getting it finished now, and I will take a photo of it once it's completed. |
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| I knit this garter stitch baktus scarf using a mohair-like acrylic yarn that is oh so soft. |
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| I knit this baktus scarf using the sock yarn that I had dyed with prickly pear cactus juice. |
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| I made my daughter a quilted case for her I-pod Touch. I don't own an I-pod, an I-Pad, an I-Phone or an I-I-I anything, so I went online to find what the I-Pod Touch measurements were and then came up with the size case I needed to make. I used scraps from my batik scrap bag mostly. She came over yesterday and I took her I-Pod Touch and put it inside the case and it fits perfectly. |
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| I actually made 2 cases for her. I thought she could choose her favorite one or have them both. They were so easy to make and you know I needed to get rid of more scraps anyhow. But then she told me her boyfriend had given her an I-Phone to test out and while the phone was a bit thicker, it fit in the case too. So now she has a case for both, although I don't know if she will be keeping the phone one or not. |
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| On the back of the case I added a loop so that she could slip in over a belt if she wears a belt. She could also attach a carabiner hook on the loop and then hook it through a belt loop or on her purse. |
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I saw a book recently that showed a quilted cozy around a mason jar that held buttons and I thought why not do something like that around my fabric scrap bucket? So I essentially made my quilt-as-you-go table runner and added some elastic pony tail holders and buttons to keep the cozy in place. .JPG) |
| Scrap bucket cozy. This is the bucket I use to put all those scraps in that I use for stuffing for the cat beds I make for a no-kill shelter. |
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| This shows the elastic pony tail holders and buttons to keep the cozy closed and in place. I forgot to take into account the extra plastic where the handles are attached, so that's why the top 2 buttons have that stuffed into a corset look. |
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