Sewing and EPP Projects

I had the house all to myself for about 10 days, and I spent most of the time sewing, watching movies, and having fun.  

Here are all of the Dresden Plate Table Toppers that you saw in my previous post. There are 12 of them in the pile; most are Christmas themed, but there are two autumn, one Patriotic, one Valentine's and a couple have fruit and can be used in summer.  All that's left to do on these is to hand sew down the bindings.  I've tried to sew the binding on the machine on one of them, and it looks awful.  I'm going to rip it out.  I really enjoy hand work, so I'll finish them by hand.  Some of these are for gifts, some for donations for silent auctions, and some of them I'm going to keep.  My Dresden Plate Table Topper tutorial can be found here.    The tutorial found at the link is for a Halloween Table Topper.

These pillowcases were all cut out, and every time I picked up the pile of pieces, one of the cuffs would fall out of the pillowcase it was matched up with.  So I sewed my way through the pile until all 31 pillowcases were finished.  I do a french seam on my pillowcases so that all of the raw edges are enclosed.  You can see how I enclose the seam cuff in my Hot Dog Pillowcase Tutorial here.  

Awhile back, I went to Back Door Quilts for a sewing day with the Quilts for Kids Group.  I finished 3 quilt tops that day from kits that the QFK coordinator provided (I added a few of my own strips to her kids....like the Kaffe fabrics).  I did some machine quilting on these 3 tops, and next I'll make binding and sew it on by machine.  Since these quilts are going to be used by kids, everything has to be done by machine.  

These blocks are for my Smitten quilt.  The pattern is by Jen Kingwell.  I started the blocks that you see a few months ago.  My friend, Michele, from English Paper Piecing Addiction Group is moving right along with her blocks.  Michele told me that the smaller pieces could be cut from a jelly roll.  Since we were at Back Door, I picked up a new jelly roll and last week I cut block kits enough to finish the quilt top.  I still have to glue baste the pieces and sew.  I'm kind of anxious to get back to this project again now that I have all of the block kits cut.

I also really love making these 2" six pointed stars.  In the bottom right hand corner of the photo, you can see some of the pieces that I fussy cut last week while I had a lot of my fabrics pulled out.  These stars are going to be one of those projects that I'll hate to see come to an end.  These are one of my favorite things to English paper piece.  

I also bought  this Bronco's fleece and crocheted around the edge of it and have sent it to my brother-in-law and sister-in-law in Colorado.  

We have a friendly football rivalry since our Colts traded Peyton Manning to the Broncos.  I even found variegated yarn in Bronco's colors to do the edging.

After all of that, I had to take time to clean up my sewing room.  I have part of the two Patriotic quilts you can see a bit of in the bottom corner of the photo already machine quilted.  I still have to finish a bit on each quilt.   One is for a donation quilt, and one is to keep.  I'll show you a better photo when I have the quilts finished.

This is a lot for one post, but it's been awhile since I've checked in.  Hope all is well with all of you, and

I hope you are finding some time to stitch today!

Thanks for stopping by for a visit.