Friday 9 February 2018

2018 wk 7 - Irish retreat

I’m at Jackie’s for a lovely long weekend.  Sewing has been a bit slow but chat and catchup and cuppas has more than filled any gaps!!!

We made cork boxy pouches


We made a leather zippy pouch and coin purse


We made a blocking octagon so these yummy crocheted octies can be blocked before being joined


And we’ve worked out a way to join these La Passigalia cogs


Jackie had made a knitting project bag (from Attic 24) but it stretched as stuff was added.  We folded a length of fabric into four, then drew around the bag also folded in 4 and ended up with this shape.  We’ve stitched into a lining shape and are now joining it to the bag.



3 comments:

  1. Wow! Great stitching there you two!
    Barbara xx

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  2. Reminded of this song.
    ...and the wheels on the bus go round and round...

    La Passigalia cogs - love how you decided to join them up.

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  3. OOoOooo I haven't sewn with cork yet - I haven't seen it anywhere locally (not that I get to a lot of quilt stores!), and it's expensive to order. I was just looking at the Joanns website (we're headed Stateside for a long weekend road trip) and I noticed that they have a cotton print that LOOKS like cork. I put it on my shopping list! It's probably the closest I'll get to that type of fabric, until the price goes down and it gets more widely available :D

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