Christmas Trimmings

Only 128 more days until Christmas! Normally at this time of the year, I am thinking about Halloween and working on fall projects, but let’s take a quick detour to Christmas today. I have a whole stack of UFOs sitting near my work table, and I am slowly working through them. Today I finished up some wool Christmas ornaments that I started 2 years ago!

This is the “Trimmings” pattern from Wooden Spool Designs (ppst – the pattern is on sale at her website). It’s a great way to use up wool scraps. They also make lovely gift tags and teacher gifts.

Keep it Thimble!

A Little Inspiration….

Wow, the summer is almost gone and I still have so much I wanted to accomplish. However, I had a great summer so I’m not complaining. I promise to get back to more regular posts this fall. Everyone deserves a summer break, don’t they?

In order to get inspired for writing up some new patterns and tutorials, I decided I needed a little inspiration. The sewing room is looking a bit drab because I haven’t made the curtains yet (which will be in a very vintage and cheery looking Minnick and Simpson fabric). So I decided to create a sewing machine cozy!

The tutorial is from Strawberry Patches and I figured this would be the best way to bring in a dash of cheer and inspiration to the room. Once the cover was completed, it seemed like it was missing something, so I decided to applique my favorite sewing slogan on it – and voila! – a constant and fun reminder of how to approach life.

For the applique, I used Steam a Seam 2, which is double-sided fusible web. I cut out the letters, fused them on, and then did a basic zigzag stitch around the edges to hold them in place. I love how it turned out!

Keep it Thimble!

And the Winner Is…

Thanks to everyone who entered the Giveaway for the Cupcake Pin Cushion! Winner is announced at the end of this post. Several of you commented that it was hard to spot the error since the picture of the corrected one was rotated – thus making it hard to compared the two. Of course, I did that on purpose to make it a bit more challenging! See the picture below for the solution.

tabletopper_mistake — Solution for Fixing

As you can see, I had three squares that weren’t in the correct place. This caused the small triangles in the upper middle to be mismatched with their appropriate color. The squares were ripped out and re-sewn, as that that seemed the easiest and quickest way to correct it. See below for the corrected version. Note, I have rotated it so that it is easier to compare the two.

Update: Just realized I mis-labeled Square 3. Square three should be the square in the lower left corner. That one needs to be rotated so the purple triangle matches up correctly with the main design. Luckily I did this correctly when I actually fixed the quilt!

tabletopper_correct — Fixed Table Topper

There were a total of 7 comments on the Giveaway post. A random number generator from Random.org was used to select the winner.

GiveawayWinner0806 — Cupcake Pincushion Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations to Emily Breclaw of The Caffeinated Quilter, who posted the third comment!

Keep it Thimble!