Linnea 'Ea' quilts...

While still in Rauma, during the Thursday when I had to kill some time while I waited for my bus to leave for Vaasa, I noticed that there was a JättiRätti-fabric store on the other side of the bus station parking lot. Also, a flea market just for childrens things. (”Match made in heaven”, was my husband thoughts about it when I called to chat about how things were  going at home.) I bought two cotton fabrics; one 1,5 m with vehicles on and 20 cm of an orange retro flower one I thought could be  nice to use for EPP. Jättirätti 13,50    1,5 m vehicles fabric, 9€/m 1,40      20 cm retro flower fabric ============== 14,90 € total Total spent on stash this year: 611,94 + 14,90 =   626,84  €

While in Rauma, during the Wednesday of ”the Week of Lace” (Pitsiviikko in Finnish), I actually shopped and found quite a lot of things. My friend Ulrika - whose idea the whole trip was - also gave me a dark fabric with vegetables on, and some white and brown scraps. This all, for 5 €, in a small plastic bag. Yes, I threw away the old yarn and the wooden stick. Mantin Maailma 3,80    2 m zipper ribbon, red 1,20    6 red zip pulls 1,75    pack of small quilting needles, Hemline LankaAnne 4,00   sewing machine needles, topstitch Garden flea market finds 1,00   three pieces of grey fabrics 6,00   2 fat quarters of Oaki Doki Hobby Textiles 2,00   2 m of green bias tape with white hearts Torin Kymppi (flea market) 5,00   a bag with 6 bobbins for making bobbin lace ============== 24,75 € total Total spent on stash this year: 587,19 + 24,75 =   611,94  €

Project details Name, Start/Finished date, Pattern and Fabrics used The modern hexie pillow 11.7 - 21.7.2018. the Modern Hexagon Pillow, a pattern and tutorial written by Nicole of Modern Handcraft. The fabric I used was part of some natural color cotton curtains I had found second hand , and one of the candy packs or mini-charm packs I had bought last year (in October of 2017) at the Syfestivalen-event in Umeå. The candy pack is " Mille Couleurs" by 3 Sisters, for Moda fabrics . Batting, backing and binding fabric: Single layer of thinnest (40 g) polyester batting from Kruunun Kangas.  Backing/inside of the pillow was the same cotton curtain fabrics as the front. Quilting pattern: Same as was used in the pattern, but I also did some free motion quilting outlines in the hexagons, so they would hold up better to getting washed. Top and bobbin thread: For piecing and quilting everything: Gutermann Mara 120, 100% polyester, 1000m, color 1 (natural wh...

During June and July I've had opportunities to finally go shopping for things I need to finish some of my WIP and UFO projects.  I've bought batting (thinnest polyester, 40g, 10 meters) from Kruunun Kangas, a new rotary cutter blade and new blunt tip scissors from Halonen's sewing store, and white cotton fabric from Eurokangas.  This means I now should have enough materials to finish the color block quilts, the one-block-wonder quilt (OBW) and at least some blocks on the Violet and Orange Sawtooth Stars quilt. That feels really nice. And what feels even more nice: the fact that I finally finally finally got my sewing machine back from the service it had to have. No more stalling now, I say! Now I have three polyester batting rolls in different thickness. 100g, 80g and 40g. I want to have some small blunt tip scissors by the sewing machine, because I'm a bit vary of the kids getting their hands on my large and scarp Fiskars scissors. It migh...