Congrats to Lizabeth Fullam who won this week’s giveaway— a Sugarbooger Sandwich Box with a leash* of foxes.
You can carry all sorts of quilt-y notions in a sandwich box — or you can carry a sandwich :-). I have several different sandwich and bento box styles at pieceocake.com. Click here to find them all.
*According to wikipedia, a group of foxes is referred to as a skulk, leash, or earth. Who knew?!
Mary G won this week’s giveaway, a Magical Unicorn pattern! If you are not Mary and still want to make this quilt, click here. This is a happy quilt that makes a wonderful gift for that unicorn-loving person in your life.
For those of you who may be wondering…
10 days ago we all thought my mom was dying. ‘We all’ included her physician, the staff at her assisted living center, the hospice staff who came later, and me – the not-medically-trained quilter.
My mom is much beloved at her assisted living center and they did everything they could to help and that included finding round-the-clock sitters and getting hospice set up on a Sunday. It was an amazing mobilization of help. I was mentally making funeral plans.
During those 2 days, we all said ‘you know, she could get better’ but none of us really thought she would. And then, she did! I showed up early Monday morning thinking mom would still be practically comatose and there she was, eating breakfast in the dining hall!
She’s gotten steadily better over the past week and is now mostly back to where she was ‘before’. Let me just say that I hope I inherited her healing genes :-).
No one knows how long this will last, but isn’t that true for all of us?
Every day is a gift. Hold that thought in your heart, as much as you can.
Enjoy today with a smile on your face, a song in your heart, and sewing in hand :-).
This photo is one I took for my photo critique class with Ricky Tims.
Three lucky quilters have won a copy of MAKE Wall Quilts. Congrats to Teri, Joyce, and Nancy!
Inside the book, you’ll find instructions to make 11 different projects, one of which is a quilt of mine — Outside In from Appliqué With Attitude shown at the bottom of this post.
Maybe I’m biased, but I think that the teacher roster looks great! I’ll share more information later in September but for now — save the date!
I spent 12 years with an admittedly fine sofa from Crate and Barrel. I loved the chocolate brown color, until I didn’t. CandB announced their annual sofa sale 2 weeks ago and I did a happy dance. Our new Petrie sofa is exactly the same as the old sofa except that it’s a little shorter, charcoal gray, firmer, and cleaner.
I have 2 midcentury modern arm chairs whose cushions were covered with a lovely brown print that I had also grown very tired of. They looked so bad with the gray sofa that I couldn’t put off recovering them.
Why is it that there are so few choices in upholstery fabric, especially if you don’t live in a big city? I could have shopped online but I wanted to see and feel the fabric. I was amazed that I found the perfect fabric at Hobby Lobby — and it was even on sale!
You know me and dots…
Just so you know, recovering cushions is not hard. You have the skills to do this. Use the old cushions as a guide and go for it!
I made the brown the cushions years ago and it wasn’t hard to use them as patterns for the new covers. The foam inserts did not need to be replaced. I spent a few hours carefully cutting all the pieces for 2 seat cushions and 2 chair backs.
And then I sewed. It took longer than I thought it would, partly because I made the covered cording too. My trusty BERNINA 1140 handled the many thicknesses of this thick fabric just fine. I love that machine!
I finished the last cushion just before the eclipse which, when you look at the fabric, felt perfect.
I bought more of this fabric than I needed. There’s probably at least a yard, but there are diagonal cuts from where I cut the bias for the cording. If you would like what I have left and are will to pay the postage, it’s yours :-). Email me at becky.pieceocake@gmail.com. The first person I hear from gets it. I’ll send you a PayPal invoice for the shipping.
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