mostly doll's clothes and quilt blocks

October's sewing has mostly been making doll's clothes and quilt blocks. I did start the month with another patchwork runner. This one will go under the telly when the Christmas stuff comes out. (Not long now!) I worried when I was making it that it was too busy - nowhere for your eyes to rest - but, after finishing it, I really like it!

Then the doll's clothes making took over. Grace was very obliging in modelling them all!

Dresses:

Yes, Grace's shoes are on the wrong feet. I sorted them for the rest of the photos!

Sundresses:

Tee shirts - I made 2.

Then the knitting needles came out and I knitted jackets and hats.

I don't know if I'm finished yet but I had fun making them and I know the girlies will love them!

I've been making more quilt blocks. Every time I make them, voices in my head keep asking me what I'm going to do with them and why am I wasting my time making something I have no plans for. I just tell the voices to mind their own business! I can make whatever I want with them or just put them aside until I do decide.

The blocks are all made using this book:

As it says, it has 501 block patterns. Not all of them finish at the size I'm making (9½" which will finish at 9" in a quilt) but there are still plenty more for me to make! Yay!

Here are the ones I made this month:

Electric Fan:

Four Knaves:

9 patch straight furrow:

Pavement pattern:

Pennsylvania:

Turnstile:

Twelve triangles:

Union Square:

Windmill II:

Windmill Square:

Economy:

I'm still enjoying making all the quilt blocks so will keep doing them off and on until that stops or I come up with a plan for them.

So that's October done and dusted. I wonder what November will bring?

September's sewing

I started the month off by sewing a pinafore for Isla. It matches the one I made for Emily which I showed here. I again used the Bloomy pinafore pattern from Puperita.

I then sewed some tapes on to some towels for Joanna.

I made a lingerie bag for going into the washing machine. I've had this Ikea numbers fabric for a very long time - it's nearly all used up now but not quite!

I treated myself to a book about making letters from patchwork called "The Spelling Bee by Lori Holt". It wasn't cheap but I intend to make very good use of it. I practised with A, J and D but fully intend making all of them and sending them to the girls. I don't know when that will be but I'll work on it!

I decided to use up some of the square-in-a-square blocks I made back in May to make doll's quilts for the girls. These will be for part of their Christmas so have been put upstairs until I've made a few other things ready to post them.

I only had 6 ballerinas in total so embroidered two to make this second quilt - top left and bottom right. I got the embroideries here. I didn't have any of the black/pink circles fabric left so I replaced it with the pink flowery fabric. It makes the quilts the same but different - always a good thing!

I made another double wedding ring block. You might notice that there are unpicked stitches in the navy fabric at the bottom right. That's because I sewed the block together wrongly and had to take it apart! What a numpty! LOL

I made the last three blocks on the summertime quiltalong.

Practical Orchard:

4 X Variation:

Indiana Puzzle:

I decided I wasn't ready to sew these into a quilt yet so I dug put one of my patchwork books and made some more blocks.

Card Trick:

Light and Shadows:

King's Crown:

Lastly, I made a runner for the unit the television sits on.

Then I made 2 runners for the bookcase units that sit under the windows:

I backed these with Christmas fabrics so, in December, all I have to do is turn them over.

That's my sewing report for September. I've already made stuff this month but I'll save those for my October report!