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And off we jolly well go into 2017! The picture below is an illustration
on impending activity! The iron is plugged in, the machine is ready to do its
stuff and there are bags full of fabric ready to be sorted and sewn. I usually start a scrap quilt at this time of
the year and that is now underway (more on the next time). It is a long term,
stuff-it-under-the-machine type project which requires no mental activity, just
application and slog.
I have loads of spools for my machine and there are several
which have annoyingly small amounts of thread wrapped around them. A scrap project
is a good way of using them up but it does mean that you have to be vigilant as
they run out annoyingly often. Just as I get pleasure about not wasting scrap
fabrics, the same applies for threads also. It must be my northern-ness and it
makes me feel smugly self-righteous!
Another vein of creativity will be to follow one of aims,
which is to work my way through this year with as much colour as I can. I’m sure you know how much I love colour and I
possess a lot of colourful fabric which makes my mouth water. So I am starting
off with a scrap bag of bits and strips to see where that leads me.
To start with, I am creating small shapes, roughly 4” by free-sewing
strips around a middle square. This is very naïve sewing as I am trying not to be
too fussy about size and shape; all the concentration will be on colour
families.
I work on one colour family each time I have an hour in the
loft room and it is very therapeutic.
As I am working at my machine, I am pondering what I am
going to do with them?! So, on the carpet at my feet, I start to organise them
as I sew. I don’t want to be too restricted at this stage but it is a delight
to see what may or may not happen.
More shapes
Even more
Detail 1
Detail 2
Trial run
And so this colourful project will continue. In the meantime
let me share a beautifully machine embroidered cushion with you. This was made
by Pat, one of the ladies who sit around the table with me at Suzette’s. I have
watched it being sewn over many, many weeks and I think it is fabulous!
Pat’s cushion
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