Chit chat

It's been another mixed up week of sewing,......while my main aim has been to get Show and Tell finished for The Shop's new projects launch, there have been plenty of interruptions.

Now that Tammy cat has discovered this quilt,  there is no keeping her away!

At least this time I had the time to turn the back over for her to lie on!

Slightly cooler nearly autumn days help, too 😊

(There should be a photo of the finished quilt top in my next blogpost!)
Just as well there are plenty of other things to do in The Palace while the cats take their naps...

I've been making these cute little blocks for another shop project — 

 

And another Split 9-patch, RSC block...this month's colour is green — 

It's nice to have these straight forward blocks to plan and sew in between the more important things going on.

More Very Important sewing over last weekend was helping Lily make a cushion for her Christmas kitten Betty. 

She planned it on their previous visit after finding some offcuts of Minky fabric in my baby/children's sewing box. I told her she needed to draw her design so that we all knew what she wanted to do. 

(If you can make it out, she'd originally thought about sewing the two colours side by side, but then decided to put the pink on one side for the summer and the blue on the other for winter.  Interestingly,  the back/blue side of the cushion is drawn on the back of the paper! Don't you love how young minds work?! 
Wider sewing foot attached and speed turned to low.

She allowed her brother to help her fill it with 'fluffy stuff'.

The slippery minky wasn't the easiest to sew, we had varied seam allowances, but she did well.

The wee kitten is a cute (mass produced) hanging I'd offered her for her dollhouse; she decided it needed to be sewn onto Betty's cushion instead!

Other important sewing this past week was to resize 2 pairs of shorts for YD. One was sort of easy, the other more tricky because they were fitted, but they actually came up the best...

I had to unpick the side seams, cut a one inch strip off each side, and then sew them back up again.

I know she was pleased with them as she was wearing them the next morning when she left for her week-long hockey tournament!

Thanks for reading along🌝

'til next time,

Happy Stitches,

Raewyn