gathers &giggles

 

Made this quilt with my daughter-in-law the other day.   I love the fabrics she chose.

The ruffled strips were fun.  I'm anxious to see the "washed" product.  Heavy starching the ruffled strips made putting the quilt together much easier. Fortunately, I had remembered the "fishing line technique."

Quilting the border was my favorite part :)

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easy "fishing line ruffles"

I made dust ruffles last week for the first time in ages.  I started out the traditional way, sewing 2 long stitch rows close to the edge, tying knots, pulling strings, hoping that none of them would break.

Then suddenly, I had a flash back and it all came back to me . . . FISHING LINE!!!  I quickly pulled it out of the kitchen drawer where I use it for making cinnamon rolls.

Here's how you do it: 

Lay your fishing line along your sewing line: (these pictures are from a different project)

 Leaving a good 6 inch tale out the starting edge:

 Sew a long, wide zig zag stitch along the edge of your fabric, feeding your fishing line down the middle.  When you get to the end, gather your fabric along the fishing line. 

I like to attach one end to my sewing project with a clamp, then gather fabric along fishing line to desired length.  Attach other end with a clamp (be sure you grab the fishing line).   Sew gather to your project.   Pull out fishing line.  If you're careful, you can re-use the same piece of fishing line over and over.   EASY PEASY!!!

Finished dust ruffle:

I hear that there are lots of ways to make gathers.  Please leave me a comment if you have any tricks.  

FIRST GRAND-BABY BORN !!!

Yes, I know, he is the cutest :)

more play quilts

3 more play quilts.  I tried different sizes on the raggy bindings (NO HAND SEWING!! :)

You can go to this post about raggy bindings for instructions on the raggy (no hand sewing) binding.

4 inch binding

3.50 inch binding (I think this looks better on smaller play quilts)

OFF TO GIRLS CAMP :0 !!!

lucy fabric

Look what the mail man just brought me!!!   Oh, he's so good to me :)

"Thank you Randi!!!"

She even sent me a little Singer Featherweight pin.

Not sure what I'm going to do with this cute fabric, but you know those late nights when you can't sleep, but you're so tired, so you start making compulsive executive decisions, then in the morning when you look at your bank account, reality of the previous night hits! :)

Maybe I'll make this beach bag which Sweetwater is showing off in today's post.  It's made with some of the fabrics available in canvas.