Project of the day
In the decade or so we’ve been living in the Big Yellow House, I’ve been collecting interesting bits of fabric almost every time we’ve gone to places like SCRAP and the Trillium Artisans shop out on Foster. These fabric bits have been collected with a vague justification of “maybe I’ll make pillows or quilts or curtains!” but, until fairly recently, they have just piled up because “making pillows or quilts or curtains” requires sewing, and sewing large items by hand is more than I even want to start thinking about.
But I was given a sewing machine, and after a year or so I finally got it to work, so I’ve actually been whittling away at the huge pile of fabric scraps.
This winter saw one of our older comforters finally start falling over the edge; it was a cheaply made down comforter, and the fabric finally wore down to the point where it was just disintegrating if you looked at it funnily. I’d patched it a bit on the edges to try and cut down on the torrent of goosedown, but it just encouraged the comforter to start developing a donut topology instead.
So, out came the mighty Singer Featherweight. I spent about 6 hours today sewing fabric samples together to make a nice 6'4" quilted sheet, which is going to replace one of the sides of the evaporating comforter fabric. (The other half; well, we’ve got some sheets that have developed rips and aren’t being used as sheets anymore; they will be an ideal backing for the thing.)
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Nice quilt! I’m impressed. I haven’t sewed much since Tyler was a baby and I was inspired for about a 3-month period to sew crib sets, pillows, etc. Now I just patch things. Anyway, that looks like a keeper. Lynne would appreciate it, I’m sure.