Josephine Sews

Last month I realized that I hadn't been doing any charity sewing and decided I would do one Project Linus blanket each month.  This is the August blanket. How I did it Everything for this project came from my stash - ya.  This time I used pre-cut 10" squares from the Tiger Fish layer cake and the Tiger Fish jelly roll.  This made the process so much quicker. I have spent plenty of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ buying quilting fabric from my two favorite quilting stores and I have a huge bag of scraps that I refuse to put in the trash.  I define scraps as leftover fabric pieces from other projects too small to use on my normal projects but too big to toss in the trash.  In this project I also used scraps from some of my garment projects. I used 9 squares and embroidered on 5 of them.  The designs that I used are in two different sets from Bunnycup - Adorable Animal Faces and Children's Bible .  I chose the animal faces because they were applique and would help me use up

This outfit reminds me of the sunshine - bright and cheerful.  The top is Lekala 4629 and the skirt is the Bibi skirt from Tilly And The Buttons Stretch book .  Quick and easy was what I was going for. Lekala 4629 I don't have a separate picture of my version of the Bibi skirt but I have included the sample Bibi skirt from the book. Bibi Skirt picutre from Tilly And The Buttons Stretch Book How I Did It - Bibi Skirt I was going for something quick and simple and so chose Tilly and the Buttions Bibi skirt and Lekala 4629.  The yellow fabric is supposed to be a ponte knit but it looks more to me like a double knit.  I ordered this fabric from an online retailer that I had ordered from before but I was disappointed with this purchase.  I love love love the color but hate the quality of the fabric.  The strip is a knit I bought at my local Joann's store. Quite honestly I thought this would be a muslin I could wear around the house because I hated the quality of t