Sunday Stitching

As I can't make up my mind what to do with the rainbow charms, and as I was 'stuck' in the sewing room as the embroidery machine chuntered through the pre-school embroideries, I decided yesterday I would chop into a different charm pack.

I was given an Its A Hoot charm pack a few years ago, but felt the designs were so varied they needed to be broken up a bit.

So I cut a whole load of extra charm squares from a plain pink, and cut all the It's A Hoot squares into rectangles

And joined them into strips (no design wall, but a rail with clips will do)

I'm happy with the arrangements, so now I can pin A to N row markers onto the strips to keep them in the right order,  and I'll press the seams next time the iron is on. 

Happy Sunday Stitching - hope you had a good weekend too

Did it myself

While I was window shopping at Creative Grids a few days ago (possibly really shopping too, oops) I saw these "Row Marking Safety Pins"

Advertised as "Perfect way to keep your rows in order as you sew" they came with instructions to . . .
1. Place letter beads on safety pin
2. Pin into rows in alphabetical order to keep in sequence
3. Sew rows together in alphabetical order

For a Price of £4.96 I thought they were a really good idea, far better than the scraps of paper I usually use, but I was worried that the beads would fall off when I opened the pins again. Eventually I had a Eureka moment . . .

Do I have alphabet beads?   Yes, loads  . . . Do I have safety pins?  Yes, loads

And I even have mini split rings, so look what I made

(Not that I think I'll ever made a quilt with 26 rows!)