I've Made A Boob!

Well to be precise, I've made 16 boobs in total

because once I started I couldn't stop!

Why you may ask? 

There's a lovely lady from Norway called

Nina Lise or to use her blog name

Mrs Moen.

She has another blog dedicated to her project about breast cancer

whereby she invites us simply to

Make a Boob

The aim is to make 1000 boobs by the end of May.

Plain boobs will be used in workshops and decorated

 by people with breast cancer.

Decorated ones will be used as inspiration at workshops and stitched into Make a Boob quilt(s) which will eventually be donated. 

All the details are on the

 Make a Boob

 blog together with specific and easy to follow

instructions on how to make them. 

I really enjoyed making these and decided to stick to

a (patriotic!) red white and blue colour scheme. 

All the blue fabric is cut from a pair of my old jeans

(old, but washed and ironed of course!)

For the two above I stamped images (of the house and dress form)

onto the fabric using Claudine Hellmuth's Studio Creative Layers Foam Stamps.  I cut the images out and machine stitched them onto

the background circle of fabric.

For these two, I cut the denim fabric using Tim Holtz

Alterations dies (Tattered Florals and Caged Bird).

The red fabric was quite flimsy and moved around while I was

sewing it, so the circles are a little mis-shapen

(well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!)

If you fancy making a few yourself,

hop over to the Make a Boob blog

 really all you need is a CD (to cut around)

some fabric and wadding

  all the instructions can be found

here.

It's fun, addictive and for a great cause too!

Thanks for looking!

From Tablecloth to Rag Quilt Purse!

I joined Mrs Moen's Tablecloth Challenge whereby we had to change our chosen tablecloth into something else!  Although it didn't have to be something quilting related my transformation did turn out to be just that!

Here's the tablecloth I started with, bought from a charity shop.  It is a beautiful white linen with machine embroidered flowers all over.

I remembered seeing a video tutorial for a little rag bag and once I'd tracked it down again I decided to make one with the tablecloth.  It is a fantastic video from Chic 'n Scratch, so easy to follow and it's here.

Who'd have thought you could make a quilted patchwork bag using your Big Shot!  

 

I didn't have the exact die used in the video, but adapted the scallop tag one I had.  After cutting out all the embroidered pieces from the tablecloth there wasn't enough fabric to complete the bag so I used some pink gingham.

After cutting the pieces out with the big shot I made 19 little fabric sandwiches (with some felt in the middle), and stitched them together as instructed in the video.  So quick and easy to make, the longest part is cutting out all the squares.  

 

If I'd planned it better the embroidered squares wouldn't have been upside down!  Oh well, I think it still looks fine.

As it is a raggedy bag (by design, not accident - lol), the pieces were sewn wrong sides together so all the seams are on the outside.  This means that the inside is all neat and tidy!

As I'm not an experienced sewer by any means I am so pleased with how this bag has turned out. 

 Thanks  Nina Lise (Mrs Moen) for a lovely challenge.