2024 Sewing Summary

This year has been much more productive than last year with quite a few items sewn for charity, for online challenges or as activities at the meetings of Waterloo Quilters.

 

• Three quilts and an advent calendar for Project Linus
• Comfort cushions and syringe driver bags for a local hospice
• Mini quilts for online challenges
• Tree decoration, organiser bag and travel tote made at/for Waterloo Quilters
• Two mini iron caddies repurposed from a full-sized iron caddy

 There has also been a lot of sewing of tiny nine patches for the Tiny Nine Patch Challenge. Approximately 550 tiny nine patches have been stitched and trimmed and 424 setting squares cut for the first part of assembling these into larger nine patches.

Hopefully it won’t be too long into 2025 before I have an update on this project.

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Festive fun

This month saw the Christmas meeting of Waterloo Quilters which had decoration making and an optional Secret Santa.

We did a little bit of hand stitching and then some clever folding to make a small hexagon decoration from a two much larger hexagons

For Secret Santa, I made a foldable tray with a foundation paper piece centre behind a clear vinyl pocket and a small biscornu pin cushion that can be clipped into the tray. I hope the recipient will find this useful for sewing days and I think I might need to make one for myself.

Once all the festive sewing was completed, I was able to finish the last of the tiny nine patches I need for my tiny nine patch challenge.

The quilt assembly part of this challenge will have to continue into next year, but I’m pleased to have got this far this year.

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