I've been asked to teach how to make a round box to a group of ladies. As I haven't made one myself in quite a while, I thought I'd better brush up on my skills before trying to teach the class.
Isn't the fabric cute?
I love the Chinese children at play.
Yes, I remember now. It's really quite simple, the hardest part is probably cutting all the card board circles by hand.
I hope you'll come back tomorrow for the Sew Mama Sew Give Away Day.
Of course I had to drop everything and give it a go. I didn't use a jelly roll; mostly because I didn't want to "waste" my lovely Bliss roll, but also because I didn't want to make it quite as big. I used mostly scraps.
After I've finished sewing all the strips together it looked rather colourful, and not necessarily in a good way. I appliquéd some flowers on as it's meant to be a baby quilt. And there's another reason for the flowers as I had to patch over where I had - once again - cut into the top while snipping off stray threads. I've lost count how many times I've done that. One would think one would learn, but sadly not me ;(.
All ready to go to a local quilt shop which is collecting baby quilts to send to Japan.
And it seems it has become a bit of a tradition of late to show you the boxes I or my friends have made during our workshop. Last week we ditched quilting in favor of box making during our quilt group meeting. I think everyone enjoyed it and was quite pleased with the results.
We're off on our home leave (I'm still calling it that, although I consider Singapore home now) later in the week. But I'm back before that for a little give away. So watch this space.
