Now Its Your Turn

Almost exactly 50 years after I graduated from Nursing School my great niece graduated from UPEI with a BScN.  How very excited we all are and so very proud of this delightful and caring your lady.

As a quilter I wanted to give her something.  But what?  My sister (her grandmother) was likely making her a quilt so that was out.

I started to create a small wall art to depict the four years of study using some of my old nursing school uniform bib and aprons but my muse had gone AWOL so I went to bed!    When I awoke through the night I knew exactly what I needed to do so happily went back to sleep.

The next morning I selected one of my old nursing hats and made her just what I knew she would love and which would be memorable.     I chose a font from my computer and matchstick quilted all around the letter A.

The binding is plain black to signify the black band in the hat of a Registered Nurse

Her name is Aricca and I was right, she loves it.

Perky little Pouch

It's Sew Much fun to stitch up a little pouch and its even funner to embellish it using your Brother Scan N Cut applique.  Quilted with a channel quilting design (one of my favourites), its a really easy and attractive pouch to stow your treasures.  And you can make it in any size you wish.  I do think it would be perfect in a size to fit your tablet.

This fluffy sheep pattern is from an Electric Quilt pattern but it would be equally as nice with a built in pattern from your SNC.  

  

Adventures with the Brother Scan N Cut and Electric Quilt

Lucky me, I live not far away from a lovely fabric shop Lynns Quilting Studio who sells and services Brother sewing machines.  Brother also makes an amazing machine the Scan N Cut and since I am definitely a gadget person, I was delighted to accept Lynns invitation to learn the machine and then teach others.

Frankly my first attempts at learning the machine were a dismal failure!   YouTube was helpful but one person would do something their way and the next video would show a completely different route.  With a large dose of patience and a stern talking to myself I mastered the fine details of cutting fabrics and happily teach the amazing potential of this machine.


I'm also an avid EQer and these two products were made for each other.
Here's my Sunbonnet Sue design from Electric Quilt 

 

Stay tuned!

Bucket Hats

Although I do love to make quilts, I started my sewing life making clothes.   Inspired by my sister-in-law,  I decided to stitch up a bucket hat.    Quilts are flat - bucket hats are not. Will my sewing a three D skill return?

And what about a pattern?  I live in a rural area so don't have an option to purchase a pattern locally.  Internet to the rescue and here's the result.

Thanks to Oliver + S for the free reversible bucket hat pattern and the my stash for the fabrics.   And yes this is a kids pattern so I used a 1/4 inch seam rather than 1/2 inch as suggested.  Fits me perfectly.

I do love to sew :-)