Thursday, February 02, 2023

Quilting - Jar openers with fabric and shelf liner


 I made up a few of these jar openers using fabric and shelf liner I had on hand.  There are a lot of tutorials on how to make these and a few different ways of doing it as well.  I chose to do one layer of fabric and one layer of shelf liner.  I cut the fabric to 8.5" x  8.5" and the shelf liner to 6" x 6" with my rotary cutter.  I created them just like I am making my QAYG potholders.  I folded all the sides over twice to overlap the shelf liner.  A cardboard template is very handy when you are folding over and pressing because the iron will damage the shelf liner and stick very nicely to your iron.  Once everything is pressed I unfold the corners and trim off a small triangle to reduce the bulk.  Then I sew down two opposite sides and then fold and pin the corners on one of the other sides and stitch it in place.  And lastly, I do the other side the same way.  All sides nicely stitched!!  Next, I stitched an X in the center to secure the fabric to the liner to keep them together when you are opening a jar.  I had to use a piece of paper over the shelf liner to get my presser foot to glide properly.  It is easy enough to rip off the paper from one side and then remove the other side after stitching.  Any little pieces that get stuck in the stitches are easy remove as well.  The last thing to do is to trim all your threads and you are done.  I used bright fabrics with red in them which meant that I did not have to change thread.   These will be donated to a sale this year!!  
Therese

Quilting - Fabric sale


 Our Gramma Africa group is having a fabric sale!!  We have started the process of sorting the donations that are coming in and will continue to process items until April.  There will be LOTS of fabric of every kind along with notions and yarn.  Look forward to seeing you there!!
Therese

Garden cards for donation


 I made these cards for a garden theme basket for a group member.  I had two cards in my stash that worked well with the theme so I made two more.  For the first card I used two pieces of decorative paper with a tulip (Melonheadz) printed on transparency.  I made cards with transparencies for my cardmaking group last week and had no luck getting decorative paper to work so it was a pleasant surprise when this one worked out so well.  I coloured the back with markers and then added pink eyelets to the corners before mounting it to my card front.  Love it!!!  For my second card I used a very great gardening image from Beccy's Place. I trimmed it, coloured it, paper pierced it and then used my distress tool on the outer edge.  I mounted it to my card front using 3D foam tape over the top of my paper pieced background.  
Therese