Two steps forward... One step back...

Do you ever feel like you're going so slow or having so many setbacks on something you're almost going backwards? Well that's how I've been feeling the past few weeks.

I have a deadline of early next week to finish one of my largest un-bloggable (for now) quilts, and that's pretty much all I've been working on for the last month so apologies for the absence. While I am not able to write much about the actual project (yet), I can use this post to vent some of my frustrations!

Continuing the NQC Quilt Block Challenge Quilt

Continuing from last week's post where I made a gaggle of flying geese to lengthen the NQC Quilt, this week is all about making the quilt wider.

The geese I made last week will be flying across the width of the quilt. But when I tried also laying out some geese flying up and down to widen the quilt it was clear that wasn't going to work. The geese going both side-to-side and up-and-down made it really hard to focus on any one element. It was as if the geese were trying to draw the eye both everywhere and nowhere at once.

Week 11 - NQC Quilt Block Challenge

In my last post about the NQC Challenge quilts I mentioned  that I'm planning something different with my grey/blue/yellow version of the quilt.

I love how the Christmas version, completed as per the challenge instructions, turned out. But for this one I want something large enough for at least a queen size bed.

Sewing for me: New purse (Part 2)

I did it! Not only did I design my own purse and draw it out, I actually sewed it all together and finished it and it worked! (happy dance).

It was actually finished a few months ago and I've been using it constantly since then so I consider it a success. Its a little wonky, but that's OK; it's functional and that's the most important part.

So now for a deluge of photos during construction.

Purse interior pieces - cut and marked

Interfacing added to reinforce card pockets

Card pockets folded and sewn,
zippered coin section starting to come together

Purse interior - complete

Purse exterior - cut  and pieced

Purse reinforcing / stabiliser - cardboard cut to size

Purse complete (except for a button closure which I haven't photographed)

Ta Da! All done.

Sewing for me: New purse

My purse has, after many years of good service, come to the end of it's useful life.  The zips are broken,  the card holders are torn and loose; is time for a new one.

Just as when I was making the wallet for the other half, none of the patterns I've looked at are quite right for me so I'm freestyling and designing my own.

Here's what I've come up with so far:
 
Now to work out the individual pattern pieces and the assembly. Stay tuned.

K