Monday 5 August 2013

A New Challenge

On Saturday, I was reading through my favourite blogs and was interested to see that Ginny over at Ginx Craft has joined in a 52 week scrap challenge run by Samelia's Mum.

This involves a new project each week to use up scraps of fabric.  I must admit that my stash of fabric has been sadly neglected of late.  It sits in a large crate in the store room where it is slowly starting to smell very musty.

Despite the fact that I have a list as long as my arm of things I want to make but haven't got the time for.. yet, I thought it might be good fun to sew along with this idea.  An excellent opportunity to air the fabric stash.  I'm not committing myself fully but I'll certainly give it a go.

The first week's challenge was to make a pincushion heart.  So, yesterday, full of enthusiasm I raided my fabric stash, dragged out the sewing machine and got to work.  In just over an hour I had made my heart... and I must say I'm jolly pleased with the result.


I added an embroidered pearl stitch edging to cover the seam, and a little button for decoration.




What fun!

This week's challenge is to make a needlecase.  I'll keep you informed of my progress.


3 comments:

  1. Soooo cute! And perfect to use all those little scraps of fabric that all of us have in stash!

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  2. Your heart is just lovely. I really like the embroidery detail you've added, and the little button. Have you seen the next challenge: a needlebook. I'm going to try and give it a go, but am also packing for holiday.

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    1. Thank you. I've got some ideas for the needlecase so I'll probably work on it soon.
      Have a good holiday.

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