Sunday 3 June 2012

W.i.P. - Flowers, Flowers, Flowers

My pillows are slowly coming together. Yesterday evening I found a little time to cut fabric and batting and today I spent about two hours working assembly line style. I hemmed, retrospectively bound, the pieces for the envelope style pillow backs, put labels on, sewed Dresden plate circles, and finally I put together the fabric-batting-fabric sandwiches for the pillow fronts using temporary adhesive spray. I love that stuff. I began centring the Dresdens, then secured the fabric squares. Unfortunately I ran out of spray when I took care of the "invisible" fabric inside. So I had to finish basting two sandwiches with pins. Don't worry, though, I'll survive.

 
 
 
 

It was satisfying to see how quickly multiples of the same came together and will have saved me a lot of time once the pillows are all done. Next time I can applique/quilt the fronts and maybe even assemble the pillows. Until then I need to decide whether to stitch in the ditch on my HSTs, echo the seams, or try something more fancy? Either way, I'm definitely learning to make the most out of my limited time.

These past weeks I've also made some progress on my EEP. I love these little flowers.


My sewing utensils are already packed away and I must return to my reading. Sigh. Hoping you all had a lovely weekend. UK folks, enjoy your bank holiday!

Linking up to W.i.P. Wednesday later.

14 comments:

  1. Those flowers are really gorgeous and the pillows are looking just great. Good luck with revision this week.

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  2. Very nice flowers I love the fabric choice. EPP can be so relaxing and before you know it, you have enough for a quilt. :)

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  3. Love your fabric choice for the dresden plates. In fact I think they're my favourite dresden plates that I've seen so far!

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  4. I love the fabrics and the black, yellow, and white combination.

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  5. your pillows will be absolutely stunning! And I love your flowers! You have there some great ongoing projects and a fabulous blog!
    I looove WIP Wednesday for finding some great blogs!

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  6. I love your dresdens! Awesome fabric choice!

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  7. Beautiful use of Echo! And Wow! EPP!- wonderful!

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  8. I love dresdens and of course they are gorgeous in Echo! I also love your EPP flowers. I'm really wanting to start some myself, but am trying to avoid the temptation of starting yet ANOTHER WIP!!
    Amanda

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  9. Love how all your projects are turning out! Very nice job.

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  10. I too enjoy the dresdens. The fabric choices are great.

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  11. What beautiful dresdens! Your hexie flowers are also very lovely.

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  12. beautiful work....I love the color

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  13. Lovely Dresdens! The pillows will be gorgeous.

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