Hi all
I have been busy quilting as you know but I really needed to practice my freeform quilting techniques so decided to whip up some Christmas coasters....
its easy to make a fast project for Christmas by making plain square Christmas fabric and layering them to make cool coasters.
I cut out the christmas fabric, backing fabric and an old warnout picnic blanket for the batting.
I got the backing fabric for free in a free box at my local second hand store. The picnic blanket has been hanging around the house for ages. And the christmas fabric was in the $1 bin at Fabric Vision...
I found some "patterns" to practice on the net...
The site for the above designs is: Perfect little stitches
I took a fabric marker that washes out and drew the design on them and took my coaster to the sewing machine and stitched on the design.... with a freeform foot.... with feed dogs down.
I quickly finished the edges off with the Fiskars Pinking shears and sewed a straight stitch around the edge. I did several designs till I ran out of thread....
These coasters are a great christmas pressie or a festive thing to use around the house...
Use what you have at home and have a blast!
fiskars tools used in this post...
Happy crafting!
Debbie B
Artycrafty.wordpress.com
GREAT work Debbie!!!
Posted by: TracyM #6773 | November 10, 2012 at 01:47 PM
What a great idea for practising your stitches Debbie...and you have some fun Christmas Coasters all ready for your Christmas Table;;
xoxo
Posted by: Lyn Dwyer | November 11, 2012 at 05:06 PM
what a great idea, to practice and create, i think sometimes it's the playing that gets you into the creative mood
I am amazed when i watch D2's one when she does this type of sewing
Posted by: D1 | November 11, 2012 at 07:00 PM
thank you
Posted by: Debbie B | November 27, 2012 at 09:24 AM