An October check-in

[nou]

Hello sewists! What have you all been up to recently?

I’ve been very very slowly cutting out and doing the darts in a top for myself from the oil-green crinkle linen I mentioned in our last check-in. It is such a monumental pain to mark — it doesn’t like to take the chalk at all — but my top pattern has eight darts in total and I like to mark them all. Sleeves and front are cut and darted, just need to cut the back and then sew it all together.

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[fred_mouse]

Tiny bit of quilting, tiny bit of repairs, and I made a bag. Used the end of an old queen sized quilt cover, seam up the side (carefully folded, so there is no seam on the outside) seam across the bottom (I chose not to be so tidy with this one), then added a long strap. This is to carry the dog blanket that goes with partner's (relatively) new service dog.

I have plans to be doing more, but have been focusing on a different set of tasks.

[nou]

That bag sounds very useful, and hurrah for repurposing unwanted textiles. I should also do some quilting — my cushion cover went on hold because I wanted some more variegated thread for the quilting part, but that has now arrived, so all I need to do now is actually do it.

[fred_mouse]

Every now and then I have a task that justifies the ridiculous amount of scrap fabric I keep. I'm so glad to have had this to hand, and just been able to make what was needed, with no stress on the acquisition or any of that. And yet, I have too much fabric. *sigh*

Variegated thread for the quilting sounds fabulous! I'm a very lazy quilter - I just use the same (poly)cotton thread I use for everything else.

[nou]

The variegated thread is really a topstitching thread (Gutermann Deco Stitch), but I had some on hand that I’d used in a shirt for bob, so after failing to work out what colour to use to quilt a multi-coloured thing, I tried the Deco Stitch and it looked great.

[fred_mouse]

I will have to keep that in mind. I think the next quilt will be quilted in purple, all going according to plan (and me being able to remember where the purple cotton is).