Sunday Stash #15

Holly Hill by Laurie Bird for Windham Fabrics.

I found yards of these beauties while organinzing my sewing space.

Now what to do with them?

See I am still seasonally confused.

Tutorial English Paper Pieced Applecore Part 2

Tutorial English Paper Piecing Applecore Part 1 can be found HERE.

Once you have prepared all your pieces, you can lay them out to decide on placement or randomly select the order.

Select 2 applecores and lay them like this.

Flip the core to the right so that the wrong side shows.

Rotate the applecore so that the end points meet as shown.

Grasp the papers keeping the points right sides together.

Begin a whip stitch.

I suggest using a small Straw needle so that you can just take a tiny bite of the fabric and leave the paper underneath untouched.

After stitching about a 1/4" of the pieces....

 

Bend the fabric between your fingers. I have one finger to the outside, one in the middle and one on the outside of the other applecore.

This will give you about another 1/4" of fabric to whip stitch.

It takes practices and is a somewhat slow process, however, with practice it begins to go quicker.

Here is one completed applecore set.

Finish with a small knot.

It will be hidden on the back side of the piece.

Add another applecore to this 'block'.

(This sample is made in Ruby)

Make {5} A blocks

Make {5} B blocks

Here are both 'blocks', you can see how they will next together.

*Note* leave the papers intact at this point.

to be continued in Part 3........

Seasonally Confused.

I am.

Seasonally confused.

Technically it is still summer. It's 85 degrees and beautiful most days.

Why would I be confused?

Well it's getting a bit cooler in the night here in Ohio and that smell of fall is in the air....even for a brief moment early in the day.

My mind keeps wondering to orange, red, yellow and black.

Leaves, pumpkins, and spiced desserts.

Last week when I attended the book signing at J'Ellen's House of Fabrics I was terribly confused.

I wanted Sophie by Chez Moi....

Trick or Treat by Deb Strain....

Summer House by Lily Asbury.....

Farmyard: Sentimental Studios......

and Oops a Daisy.

p.s. for inquiring minds....I didn't break the bank at J'Ellen's. She was having a HUGE sale. $20 for jelly rolls, $5 charm packs....you get the idea.

It was HUGE and I had a gift certificate from a really great friend. I was pleased as punch.

Anyhow do you see the issue?

Summer,

no Fall,

 summer, Fall, summer....ACK! I am mixed up.

Do you know the feeling?

What to start first? what will I make? I have a gazillion patterns and MY own and still I'm not sure.

First on my list is some sort of fallish/Halloween pillow cover.

I have a pillow form that had a 4th of July cover....now it's naked so I really need to start there first.

Oh shucks, I just remembered the Applecore tutorial....guess I will start there and the pillow will be second on the list.

It's 90% done.

My Sewing area/kids tv playroom that is.

The wall unit is Expedit from Ikea.

I ♥ Ikea.

really.

Here is the angle from the tv wall unit.

Another Expedit added there and I am using the other white pieces I had from my first set up.

And the cutting table area.

The wall cabinets and ironing station were clearance at Home Depot a few years ago and so they stayed.

It's about 20' X 16' and is packed with fabric love :)

I am feeling sooo much better that it is a useable space again.

When I have a mess whether I am organizing or not, I just can't focus until it's straightened.

This is 90% done.

There are few baskets here and there that need a home, but some of the Expedit squares are empty so there's room.

Now I need to focus on finishing part 2 of the Applecore tutorial and show you what I bought at J'Ellen's House of Fabric.

More posts soon.

promise.

When life hands you potatoes.....

Make chips.

We are new-ish to gardening and decided that this year we would add potatoes to our repertoire.

So we quartered some from the pantry that had 'eyes' on them and planted.

Well my husband being not too knowledgable about planting...planted a summer squash right next to the potatoes.

The squash went like wild fire and basically smothered the poor potato plants.

We thought there were no potatoes that could have survived.

So last night we went out to dig out the now defunct summer squash....

and my hubby decided to pull the potatoes too.

Well wouldn't you know it.

Potatoes...lots of them.

Well lots for us.

So we made potato chips first and the rest? maybe American fries for dinner?

 I'm not sure but I am super excited that we got potatoes.

It was a treat to see my girls digging for them.

Next year we are planting them again, away from the Squash.

And this monster is from my heirloom tomato plants...

We have tomatoes coming out of our ears this year

guess I will have to try canning this year after all.....