`OPAM.....and the Chookshed (One Project A Month) May 2017 and The Chookshed Sewing Party~

One small item for OPAM this month

A little Mug Rug

I did a little Getting To Know Your Machine Workshop at Rosemont The Patchwork Shop and came home with a little free-motion quilting and a Mug Rug

Not bad for a morning's work!!!

Thank You to Sweet Peg and Kris for hosting OPAM this month!!!

Now I better be off and continue with The Chookshed's Celebration of 5 Happy Years of Sewing!!!

Happy Birthday to the Chookshed!!!

Thanks Donna for hosting this weekend for the past 5 years

Extra Special here as we have a night off from Caring!!!!

Happy Sewing

Dzintra 

~Progress of Bag~

A quick update here....

When I went to the Blogmeet at the Craft Show I had in mind that if I bought a kit I wanted to come home and start it as soon as possible!

Not having done much hand quilting I really wanted to give this a go...

All the strips are sewn together and I thought that I would use the Americana thread above to quilt as I remember that I was told it was for hand quilting due to the fact that it would go through the fabric nice and easy...

and it sure did!!!

The kit......surprise, surprise by Anni Downes of Hatched and Patched!

All cut and ready to be sewn together...

Then I started photographing from all angles...stitchery on top of the pile of fabric...

Fabric chain-pieced together...

I have only done this once before!

I thought it looked nice hanging up......for a moment!!!

Unpressed...

Pressed...

the reverse side...

with the thread and needlecase all set to quilt...

Imagining what it will look like all finished!!!

And I'm soooo happy about how it's starting to look!!!

OPAM...One Project A Month....September!!!

Oops, I nearly didn't have an OPAM ready for this month...until yesterday!!!

I went to a workshop to learn how to use the BSR (Bernina Stitch Regulator) on my nearly new sewing machine...We were going to make a small evening bag...

Here is our little pack...some black and maroon fabric...piping chord...shrinking fabric (never heard of that before!!!)...

 Black thread on the top spool...

I set out to make flowers but just couldn't do it...

never mind, it was just petals and swirls!!!

this is the first time I have tried the BSR...

and silver thread in the bobbin case....this is the underside...

after BSR'ing you iron the stitched fabric and it shrinks...

Magic!!!

Bag all assembled...

The lining...

A bit of bling on top and I'm all ready!!!

A plain black headband purchased this week...

And me being a 'more is more' type I put a rose and feathers on one side of it...

And here they are together...and I love them...

Now just need to go somewhere!!!

Thanks to Peg and Kris for hosting OPAM...

I get at least one thing a month finished that I probably wouldn't have!!!