WIP: Hexie Tote - Pattern Writing

I am having a super fun week of sewing. I made a few more Farmer's Wife blocks, finished basting white-on-white hexies (I think there is about 1500-1600 total) for the 'Not Your Grandma's Garden' Quilt and started a new project for which I am writing the pattern as I go.

Here are the Farmer's Wife blocks for the week:

Block 86 - Squash Blossom

Block 19 - Checkerboard

Block 46 - Hill and Valley

Here is all the white-on-white hexies, I had a been putting them in a nice container, but ran out of space, so now each new fabric gets a little bag to live in. As I start to sew them into the quilt I am grab 1 or 2 from each fabric, putting them in a big bag and pulling them out at random to sew into each row.

Almost all the white hexies.. 3 rows are sewn together and on the design wall.  So many baggies of white stuff.. I think I have a problem.. maybe I should go to rehab. 

Just a few of the many different fabrics I used.

Here is sneak peak at the Hexie Tote Bag. As soon as I finish writing the pattern for it, I will be posting it on Craftsy and I will have more photos when it is closer to done. 

Linking with Lee at Freshly Pieced for WiP Wednesday and Splish Splash Stash for In Hand EPP Link Party. 

Thanks for stopping by to have a look. 

GeoMama

WIP: More Farmer's Wife

It has been a fun week at my house, I got a new phone and it has a way better camera than the one I have been using. It has been fun playing with it and finding all sorts of new features and apps that my last phone couldn't handle. 

I finished the last Christmas present last weekend, and delivered it. Here is the completed Ipad Mini Case and Bag, the bag holds both the Ipad Cover and power cord. For more details about the crazy orange stripe read this.

I also delivered the Oink-a-Doodle Moo Baby Quilt to its new owner. Isn't he cute at 2 weeks old?

Since I was away all weekend, only bits of sewing have been done since. I have been continuing to work on the Farmer's Wife Blocks, with these 3 completed I have 32 in total.

Block 30 - End of Day

Block 29 - Economy

Block 77 - Seasons

Lastly for the week, I basted 60 hexies and sewed a row of white hexies together for my big hexagon quilt.

Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for Work In Progress Wednesday. 

Happy Wednesday

GeoMama

Measure Twice, Cut Once...

Measure Twice, Cut Once and Remember to include seam allowances. I finished my brother's Christmas gift, his Ipad Mini Cover.

Closed Ipad Mini Cover

Open Ipad Mini Cover

He had mentioned that it might be nice to have a bag to store his power cord in. I had a bit of the wood grain fabric left, and it looked like it might be enough to make a bag that would hold his power cord as well as the Ipad Mini Cover. 

I measured the Ipad Mini Cover. Twice. 

I cut and sewed the fabric together to make a piece big enough to work as a bag with a flap closer. 

I sewed the sides up, I sewed the flap. 

...Then I tried to get the cover into its fancy little pieced bag. It was about then that I realized I forgot to add seam allowances on the bag. The cover would barely squeeze in and I certainly wasn't going to get it in once there was a lining. I wasn't going to get a power cord in either. 

It was about then that I said some bad words and stormed out of my sewing room. 

I pondered the rest of the day what I was going to do to fix my little problem. 

I could have just ripped the seams and sewn some side panels in. But that would have been the easy thing to do, and the cover was already very improvised, so that seemed too planned and logical.

I felt like trying something completely new (to me anyway). So I ripped the side seams on the flap and bag sides, then sliced it all up at random angles. My brother is liking orange these days, so I found the most wild orange print in my stash and put strips of it all the angled slices, and sewed it all back together. 

Front, with the flap at the top

Back

So my lesson of the week is to:

Measure Twice, Remember to add seam allowances, Cut Once

Linking up with Jess at Quilty Habit for TGIFF
Thanks for stopping by to have a look, and please let me know about something you miss measured or forgot to add seam allowances to.

GeoMama