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Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 5:15 pm Post subject: Two shiny new articles from Cathryn
She really is a very clever bunny. sewing a knitting needle roll a quilt from old jeans

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35058
Location: Devon

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 5:18 pm Post subject:
I want a knitting needle roll and BW wants a quilt. I really need to learn how to use a sewing machine. One day, one day.

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 5:21 pm Post subject:
Best come and visit then! Or I could try again with a spring time sewing how too gathering?

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 5:59 pm Post subject:
Good oh,I knew that pile of old jeans would come in handy.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 7:06 pm Post subject:
I need to get my sewing machine working ....

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 12 8:02 pm Post subject:

The jeans quilt reminds me of a wonderful patchwork quilt my grandmother had which was made from pieces of woollen suit fabric - all darkish practical browns and greys with checks, pinstripes etc. Not pretty, but a beautiful hand-stitched piece of post-war make-do-and-mendery. It weighed a ton (both sides were made of similar patchworked fabric IIRC) and was incredibly comforting to sleep under in winter.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 9:16 am Post subject:
I have a duvet cover made from beer bar towels pinched during my misspent youth. It weighs approximately eleven million tons.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 12:10 pm Post subject:
Usefully absorbent though.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 1:07 pm Post subject:
Indeed. I have a maching beach towel for that reason.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35058
Location: Devon

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 4:42 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Indeed. I have a maching beach towel for that reason.

For when you've been swimming really fast!

Sally Too

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 2511
Location: N.Ireland

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 12 4:51 pm Post subject:

Love the old jeans quilt. All the different shades are great.... I'm mulling over ideas already.....

You see I've just cut the legs off a pair of jeans to attempt to make a "funky" skirt for an up and coming fancy dress party.... I'll definitely be saving the legs for a quilt now!

PS I've put up a few pics of my skirt's progress here:
https://sallysewssometing.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/funky-skirt-from-old-jeans-with-pics.html

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