Sunday, August 31, 2014

A Quick Little Number...

Hi folks...well here we are at the beginning of another month...can you believe it's September already...it sure is scary how quickly this year is going...before you know it'll be...CHRISTMAS but back to here and now. I've been busy working away at the Fiskars/Eclectic Elements magazine commission...2 projects down...one to go. I had a bit of a lightbulb moment for using up the pile of little left over bits...the scraps I couldn't bring myself to throw away so I gathered them all up...cut out a pile of hexagon shapes using The Fuse and the Hexagon Die...with the intention of running up a "quick little number" pin cushion...
I found a tutorial online and set to work...hemming each hexagon around a slightly smaller hexagon shape cut from card...then settled down on the sofa to handstitch all the blighters together...pack in the stuffing...stitch the 8th hexagon in place to close...not to mention sewing on all those buttons...


it is very cute and I'm happy with how it turned out but my eyes were out on stalks by the time I'd finished the miles of handstitching. If you're an experienced sewer blessed with lots of  patience it would probably be a piece of cake little project but I'm assuming that most of the readers just like me will not fall into this category so I've decided not to include my "quick little number...my foot" project in the magazine commission...after all...the step-by-step instructions might read like this.
PIN CUSHION PROJECT
Time to Complete: 7 hours
What you will need: Fabric...needle and thread...
lots of patience...
20/20 vision or spectacles with lenses like milk bottle tops...
and many many cups of coffee
and if that didn't put you off...well you're braver than I am. The fabrics I used are
Photo Card Multi
Correspondence Taupe
It's back to the "you win some...you lose some" drawing board today for Project No 3 then.
Hugs Kath xxx