Tissue holder - "Gifty Project" shown at October Meeting

Here is a little project to make a fabric cover for those little packs of tissues you carry in your purse.

I do realize that having a fabric cover for your purse tissues is completely unnecessary; the little tissues already come in a plastic sleeve! But to me, a project doesn't have to be useful  if it is only made out of scraps.

You can make a tissue holder that matches your purse. Very stylish I'm sure.


There are probably lots of easy ways to make this, but I wanted mine to have no raw edges -- even on the inside. It is not cool if you pull out a tissue and it has threads stuck to it.

Tissue holder                  Cut fabric 6x14”

With RST (right sides together!) sew across 6” ends together to form a loop. Leave a large gap for turning. Turn loop right-side out and flatten, leaving seam side up. Seam should be off-center as shown.

Fold over left and right edges, with slight overlap in th center and iron into place to crease folds well.

Turn loop wrong side out and refold, so that overlapping occurs neatly inside. Side view of the loop below:

Flatten again and sew across each raw edge. Find the turning hole and turn inside out. Flip the flaps to other side.

Christmas Tree Skirt Instructions and Demo

At the October meeting, Nan Sanborn demonstrated how she and her sister make quilted Christmas tree skirts. She handed out diagrams and instructions. Her diagrams and instructions can be found here Tree skirt instructions.

Nan also provided a full size template for cutting the wedges of the tree skirt. If you were not at the meeting to get one of her templates, check with Nan, or ask to trace someone else's. Nan noted that newer fabric keeps getting narrower. Her instructions were written for 45" width fabric. You can still use the same instructions for the new narrower (42"?) fabric, but instead of lining up the short edges of the strips, the strips have to be shifted/staggered to fit the template as shown at right.

Coin Purse with window - October Meeting Demo

I found these instructions on the internet for making  a cute little coin purse with a window in it to display your ID or a picture. It's called the all-you-need-bag.

Click on picture for full instructions.

The instructions are fine, but the first little bag I made didn't turn out exactly like I wanted it to, so I made some notes as to what to do differently. So, hopefully if you make one, your first one will turn out perfectly.

The pattern describes  a super easy technique for putting in a zipper. This method could be adapted to make little zippered bags of all sizes. I plan to make an eyeglass case and an make-up bag to match.

The pattern calls for 2 fat quarters, but I've added cutting diagrams and you need only two pieces 7x9".
Here are the cutting diagrams and the rest of my notes.

Click on picture to see full sized.

Thread Catcher Project from October Meeting

 

ThreadCatcher

Click on picture to download pdf instructions  for the thread-catcher project shown at the October meeting. I happened to inherit some fabric that has textured rubbery dots on it. I'm sure it was for making non-slip soles on toddlers footy pajamas. It helps a little, to put this on the underside. But my first one did not have it, and so it  probably not necessary.

October Quilt Group

We had a good time! Here are some pics:

Diana made a quilt that she already gave to her sister.

Debbie W show her horse quilt top... done in Buggy Barn style!

Sherri did this baby quilt that she even free-motion quilted herself!

Linda was worried about this one, but it came out great!

Linda made this for her new grandchild - the "wee Wally."

Terry made this baby quilt - with the "H" pattern.

Terry also made this fun quilt!

Gail modeled her tree skirt!

Gail also made this pretty jelly roll quilt.

This is the Comfort Quilt top that we finished on Friendship Quilting Day in October. Many hands make light work!