Pillow Cases and Self Binding Blankets Galore!!

More things I have been making. 

 LOADS of pillow cases, some crib sheets and some self binding blankets. 

 I made a few more nap blankets too. 

 Trying to power through some of my fabric.

  Although I do have to confess I bought Christmas flannel for the pillowcases.

Four pirate self binding blankets. Check.

Someone claimed this one, LOL.

Aren't these otters the cutest?

Self binding blanket with airplanes.

These were all the self binding blankets I made.

The first of the pillowcases.

With matching self binding blanket.

I wish I had bought more of this print.  This is a pillow case and matching crib sheet.

Pair of pillowcases.

Crib sheet

Two pairs of pillow cases

Pair of pillow cases

Found that faux fur in the remnant bin so had to make this self binding blanket with it.

I totally fell for these vintage reindeer.  2 pair of pillow cases.

These black Christmas cats had to be made into pillow cases for my bed!

I made another pair reversed but forgot to take a photo

Christmas gnome pillowcases.

 That's all I have for now.  

If you are interested in making pillowcases I have a tutorial on my tutorial page and

 you can find it here 

 I also have tutorials for the crib sheets and self binding blankets on my tutorial page. 

 The link is in the header for Mama Spark's Tutorials.

Most of the pillow cases have been wrapped and are ready to gift. 

Some will be gifted in person.

Are you making things for Christmas this year?

~XOP~

Some Selfish Sewing

I have NOT been in the mood to sew lately.  

I think I am still feeling the let down of the holiday and all the sewing I did right up to Christmas.  

I have sewn a few things that were easy and used up some fabrics I had bought that were bulky.  

I had bought some flannel to make holiday pillow cases for our bed but somehow just didn't get around to making them until last night.  

Do you love Narwals?  I do!  

I could not resist making some Christmas Narwal pillow cases!

I have been trying to do some clean up in my sewing room. 

 Somehow I managed to misplace my little hand sewing bag that has all my hand sewing stuff in it.  

I am going on a mission tonight to find that bag!  

I have a quilt retreat next weekend and I need that bag.  

I am trying to determine what project(s) to work on too.  

I signed up for an embroidery class (every month) and of course it is the Sat I will be at the retreat, 

so I am going to have to go on Wednesday of next week.  

I need to spend time gathering the supplies for that this week too.  

Wish me luck with the bag hunt tonight!

~XOP~

What To Do With Leftovers?

As I said in my post yesterday, I had LOTS of left over triangle units.  

I also had too many of the white base units cut. 

 I did not want to show what I did with the quilt left over triangles until it had been gifted 

but I can share now.

I made a pair of pillow cases using the triangle units for the cuff.

Here they are folded up.

Of course I forgot these at home so will need to bring them with me next time we visit.

Hmmm...that didn't use up nearly enough.  

I thought I should make a baby quilt and 

when I went to do that I realized I needed to make a few more.

No problem, I had LOTS of the bases left over too.  

This is pre border.

I added an aqua border to this one as it felt more like a baby to me.

Close up.  I still need to quilt this but at least I used up all the gray triangle units!

Oh, but there were still SO MANY base units left.  

I showed this before but could not really talk about why I made it so here goes.  

I used up the left over base units making this baby quilt.  

I had been cutting and cutting up my vintage sheet hoard so 

used some of the squares to make this quilt top.  

Somehow though, it needed more color.  

I decided to use colorful borders for this and I love how it came out.  

It would have been good with colorful bases and white triangles too but 

I needed to use what I had cut already.  

So tell me, do you like these? I need to quilt them both.  

If you want to make a VS one and have the pattern, 

I have squares I can sell you as a pack to make the triangles.  

If you want the same borders I have sheets you could choose from too 

(although not the one in the photo).  

Just shoot me an email (mamaspark@gmail.com) . 

The pattern is called Minimal Triangles.  

~XOP~

Catching Up

Lest you think I have forgotten about you all, I am going to make a post.

I have been busy with wedding stuff and life in general.

I finally took my dress in for alterations too.

I made some cinnamon roll scones (Keto).

They were just ok.

They didn't rise very much and I really wanted to love them but...meh.

Don't get me wrong though, I froze them and plan on eating them anyway, 

just not as good as the real deal.

 My daughter asked me to make a pennant that one of the little boys in the wedding can wave. 

I finally got around to making that this weekend. 

I just need to find a dowel and then sew a ribbon casing to the short side. 

 I think I will put a few streamers on the top also.  It turned out better than I expected.

I still need to make her veil but what did I do instead?

Made some sloth pillow cases!

Aren't they adorable??

My SIL asked me if I would bind a quilt for her so I worked on that this weekend and

 I finally got it all hand stitched down too.  

I love using Minky for backings! 

 It is SO soft!!

I have a hair cut and highlight appointment tonight and 

hope to get the binding made for the wedding quilt.  

My friend that quilted it has it all finished so I get to pick it up tomorrow. 

 I am so excited to see it!

I think that catches you all up.

Hopefully I will be able to post a bit more soon.  

I just seem to be so anxious about all the wedding stuff and getting all my parts done.  

~XOP~