Kawandi Time

 

Kawandi quilting is a technique that comes to us from India, hand-stitched from the outside in and traditionally made with old saris. It's very trendy right now in the quilting world so I thought I would try it since it gives me an excuse to play in my scrap bag, including my stash of scrap batting. 

There are lots of tutorials and videos on how to do this so I won't waste your time, besides I barely know what I'm doing so I can't really claim to give instruction. It's fun! This is a very small project, maybe 12 inches square, made with my smallest scraps.

Maybe something new for Eugenie or Shireen!

Crumb Time!

For this month's Block Lotto challenge, our guild's vice president, Bruce, gave us the task of making a crumb block or "made fabric" block and inserting a tree branch. 

Here is my crumb block. I love doing crumb quilting. It used up quite a bit of my green scraps but don't worry, there's plenty left. 

His sample was around 12x17 inches so I made mine about the same size (improv needs to have some rules) but I used a marbled brown fabric instead of the solid he suggested. I don't think I own much brown solid, just a fat quarter somewhere, and I didn't think I could cut a long enough strip from it for this project.

Here is my completed block. I'm so happy with it! I've never done a Block Lotto before and I've been a member since 2016. So that was fun! I hope I win the lot!*

*For those of you who don't know what Block Lotto is, it's a monthly challenge where we are assigned a block and for every completed block you bring to the meeting, you get a raffle ticket. Then someone draws a ticket and the person with the number on the ticket wins all the blocks!

Postcrossing!

 

So my new hobby is Postcrossing, a postcard exchange thingy where you send postcards to people around the world and they send postcards to you.

I decided to use some scrap fabric to make postcards to send; here are some that I've made. 

People seem to like postcards depicting where you live, so I used some of my scrap NYC fabric to make cards, as well as some cat fabric (everyone loves cats) and some other things that I thought were pretty and fun.

To make the cards, I cut a 4x6 inch piece of Kraftex and a 4x6 inch piece of fabric and adhered them with fabric glue before doing some decorative stitching with my machine. They are thin and flexible and cost the same to mail as an ordinary postcard. 

I found that making postcards was a fun way to use scraps of prewashed fabric that I would not use in a quilt (I never prewash my quilt fabric, only fabric for garments.)

You can learn more about Postcrossing.com and start sending some yourself if you want!