April’s not quite over yet, but there’s been some crafting..

I made another cushion! This one was a kit from  Sewmotin called Applecore cushion and I bought it at the Festival of Quilts last year (2023). 

It was the rainbow of Alison Glass fabric that caught my eye - helping me decide to buy the kit instead of just the pattern or paper pieces. 



On the back I used this goegeous piece of orange fabric - too pretty to cut up into small pieces. I think it works well with the colours on the cushion front and especially the binding. 


  

G is for.. glow in the dark! The faeries, windows, lanterns and animals asre all glow in the dark festires on this Lewis & Irene fabric. 

G is for.. Granger (or Grang, as the norwegian translation of the books call her). 



H is for.. humler (which is what we call bumble bees in norwegian). 



My pile of works in progress (wips) is apparently a comfy spot for napping.. I’ve just finished the top for the courthouse steps quilt - but it will have to wait before I can quilt it, seeing as I’ve run out of batting again.. (Four meters really don’t last very long..)



I’ve still not decided if this one should be handquilted or not..

This BOM (block of the month) reappeared during my big cleanup, and now I’ve started working on it. Month one is finished (missing a photo) and month two is started. 

The latest knitting project to be completed, is this Hogwarts house jacket for A. There were some new bits and bobs with this one, seeing as it’s knitted in five parts - then three parts are joined before adding the button band, and finally the sleeves are sewn in. 

I made something!

I’ve been receiving these monthly subscription boxes for quite some time now - and have made anout a handful of the projects.. which is why, I guess, I have so much «reserved» fabric laying around. 

2024 seems to be the year for making some of these (instead of working on my neverending queue of ufo’s) and one of the last projects I finished was this bag. 

It came as an instruction and a quilt-as-you-go pattern printed on a stabiliser «fabric». I wanted to use the fabric which came along in the box on the other project that was included, so I looked in my nox of leftovers and found quite a few pieces from two different fabric lines that went pretty well together, and by including some pieces of other fabric (which I’ve been saving for something special) I had everything I needed. 

Sewing the binding on the top of the bag was a little difficult as the bag was occupied as soon as I put it down beside me on the couch.. 



But I was able to finish the binding and sew the handles on by bribing Marshmallow out of the bag. 

Taking a picure of the finished bag, on the other hand, resulted in the cat being back im the bag.. 

After a rather grey winter the first sightings of blue sky from my home office/sewing spot was very welcomed. Since then we’ve had a relaps of snow at least four times - sneakers and thin coates one day, showelling snow the next.. 

I hope the rest of the year will continue in this crafty lane. 🤞🏻

F is for.. Flipflops! This is my block for week 12 of the #focuscuttingsewalong hosted by @naomialicec 🩴

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