2025 Sewing Summary

This year seems to have been quite light on completed projects, with sewing being replaced by trips to quilting shows and/or trying new techniques in workshops.

 

Completed projects and activities include:

• One quilt for a show 
• Pattern testing for a zipped boxy pouch
• 34 syringe driver bags
• 16 paediatric ICU sheets for Project Linus
• One sewing machine mat
• 13 mini felt microbes for a public engagement event at work
• One quilt for Project Linus
• Three shows visited (Uttoxeter Quilt and Stitch Village Show, Festival of Quilts, Knit+ Stitch Harrogate)
• Five workshops trying new techniques at shows and/or Waterloo Quilters
  
  

There has also been a lot of preparation and finally some sewing for the Wonderland Sampler Sampler quilt.

 Hopefully I will make better progress with this in 2026.

 

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A final few finishes for 2025

I decided to make use of time off for the holidays to finish a few projects so I can start 2026 with a relatively empty to do list.

First to be completed was a request from the local Project Linus co-ordinator for some duvet covers to be turned into colourful sheets for the ICU department at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. Once the covers had been cut to size, a rolled hem foot made quick work of hemming the edges.

Next was a quick “whole cloth” quilt for Project Linus. This was the front of a duvet cover, the back of which I used for making syringe driver bags earlier in the year. As this was backed with fleece, minimal quilting was needed - just some quilting around the edge of the Liver bird and a few LFC-related words.

The final finish was completing a sewing machine mat started during a Waterloo Quilters workshop run by Diane from Stitchscape. This made use of the temporary tackiness of “Steam a Seam Lite 2” which allowed us to adjust the layout of precut shapes. Most of the design work was completed during the workshop and all I had to do was fuse it to a piece of fleece, machine applique with a satin stitch around the joins and bind it with some remnants of binding from previous quilts.

 

Hopefully now these are completed, I will feel more like starting new projects next year.

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