Oh Sew Kat Halterall Looking for Summer...

 Just a simple little Playsuit. Pattern is Oh Sew Kat Halterall. I used some cute tiny floral fabric in a rather blah mauve color, with a preloaded bobbin from Superior Threads, and some So Fine thread ditto.  Looks good on Brinley!  I have another dolly outfit to sew soon as well. Plans are to sew the next one up, and then get busy on that fabled Asian print throw quilt I want for myself.   I should maybe do a trim on this little jumpsuit, but at least I need to press it. She seems happy with it, and sewing it on my Brother Innovis Pacesetter PS500 was a dream. The machine sews so smoothly and I love it. It is coming up on five years since I bought it.

Pot Holders - Using Scraps

 Using up scraps and various fat quarters.  I used insulated batting, regular batting, and squares of fabric, then I did QAYG on the top of the batting with various strips of scraps. The backs are one solid piece. I used leftover binding on two of these and made some violet print binding for the other two.  These are about 7.5 inches square but next time I am going to round the corners well and use up old bias tape. A useful and fun project.

Crane Panel by Kaufman Fabrics Finally Done....

 I finally finished quilting this panel. I pinned it for quilting in 2019, and mentioned it in this blog at the time...I love the fabric. I thought I would thread paint this. Well, it is partly thread painted and partly free motioned as in meandering. I find that my level of patience is not the level one needs in thread painting!  But I love this. The binding is a lovely fabric which coordinated so well with this panel. In short, I love this, and I might even hang it in the sewing-quilting area. 

Phoebe's Christmas QAYG Quilty and Another Kitty Christmas Quilty...

 Having a pils of scraps leftover for years from Christmas sewing, I decided to make cat quilts  - one for ours and one for Phoebe, my "grandkitty."  This actually used all my scraps! So glad!  The above picture is Phoebe on her new quilt. It is a strip QAYG, assembling backing and batting and then sewing strips cross the top, then bind - very fast way to make smaller items and looks quite good! :)  Below is a picture of it before gifting.  For the QAYG I used a fat quarter as the backing and that made the trimming extra easy! Size was same when done as a fat quarter.

The one I made our kitties is not as pretty! But it used quite a few scraps! It is larger than Phoebe's quilt by several inches each way.  It was nice that I used all the rest of the Snoopy fabric for binding!! On the one for our cats I used several strip scraps to bind.