Yesterday I finished the little pouch to keep me from dropping my stuff all over the Y. I used the Open Wide Zippered Pouch tutorial from Noodlehead. I didn’t use her measurements, though. I think I cut my pieces about 7″ by 6″. And I added a strap by which to carry and hang it. I’m not sure you could tell these are flamingos if you didn’t already know, but it’s colorful, anyway. I used Pellon fusible fleece for interfacing, and it stands up well.
I also added inside pockets. There is a very good reason the pattern doesn’t have pockets. They don’t work with this construction method. Well, because I’ve made pouches before, I figured out how to sew around them, but it added time to what should have been a very quick project. Maybe if they were just sewn into the lining they would work, but I wanted them sewn all the way through the layers. Probably shows my lack of bag-making experience. But don’t do it if you’ve never made one before. This is a nice, simple, cute pattern without them.
One pocket is for my Bluetooth earpiece, and the other is for hairbands. Then in goes my phone and Y card, and maybe my wallet. I’ll be so together no one will recognize me!
Hope you’re finding time to sew!
Yesterday I finished the Black and White Stars Baby Quilt. This was a quick, spontaneous little quilt just because I came across that pile of fabrics in my stash. I liked making the wonky stars enough that I may do another project.
And it produced a very snuggly quilt, as you can see.
Yuri and I finished up this rail fence quilt yesterday. Here he is admiring some of our wavy quilting lines.
And this is what the whole thing looks like. It’s 63″ x 81″, and the rail blocks are nine inches square.
It’s all from stash, and the colors were completely inspired by this backing fabric I had on hand.
I sort of quilted this backwards. Visually, I wanted minimal quilting, so I started out using the walking foot for a serpentine stitch in variegated thread down each bar of fabric. Then I decided that it needed more quilting to withstand use on a bed, so I went back and quilted in all the ditches with invisible thread. It made it a little wonky, but the result is fine. A myriad of troubles disappear when a quilt is washed!
This quilt will stay with me. I was checking out bedding in case some of DS’s friends came home with him, and discovered that I didn’t have a spare twin quilt. Now I do.
This week I put this together this little string quilt. Nope, still can’t tell any difference in my string baskets, but it did use a big pile of them.
I quilted it with five rows of feathers in white Bottom Line.
The back is the last of this alphabet print.
The bright sunshine I’m enjoying today played havoc with taking good photos of this understated little quilt (I was just glad it wasn’t sleeting as it was yesterday). I hope you can see how delicately feminine this baby quilt is.
I ordered the floral last month, probably for a backing, but they only had half a yard left when they filled my order. The flowers are a blue-gray, with aqua centers. I paired it with this beautiful mocha colored Grunge that appears to be brushed with aqua paint. On the top I added a linen colored solid.
The back is more of the Grunge, and an aqua and mocha print. I kept the quilting pretty simple, and I love the way it turned out. I used a variegated gray Rainbows thread from Superior on the top, and Bottom Line on the bottom.
He should look guilty, he was playing with an open pen on my new quilt!
The Twilters’ Hashtag Quilt is finally finished. On the Twilters! Facebook group, we exchanged wonky hashtag blocks back in the fall, in a world-wide exchange somehow coordinated by the amazing Carole. I sent twenty-four blocks and received twenty-four back, from nine states and four countries on three continents.
For the back I used a piece of fabric I had been 
This quilt is 56″ x 82″, and should be great to wrap up in during cold evenings, or whenever I need a Twilty hug! Thank you, everyone, for your beautiful blocks!
Evening in the Garden Quilts 