Wedding Quilt - Flimsy Done (Well, Almost)

It's a bad picture, but it's really just to show that I've sewn it together. 

The living room floor was probably covered in toys or blocks or dog hair, so quick throw on the couch and TaDaa! Proof that it is a (wrinkly) flimsy. (Except I guess it's not a complete flimsy because I'm probably adding borders.  Shh, it's a big accomplishment for me.)

til next time...

Wedding Quilt

I love the difference taking a picture makes.

When I first laid these out it looked like a random hodgepodge of blocks.  But looking at the picture, the chain of squares really pops out, making me feel much better. 

Yay! Progress!

til next time...

Tshirt Rug - Done!!!!

So remember how I said it was a sombrero? Look how much extra braid I had stuffed in the center of the rug before!  (This lighting makes it look sort of bluish.  The last picture in the post is more accurate for color.)

It almost reaches all the way around the rug's outer circumference.  No wonder it was buckling.

So I ended up splicing the extra braid into the end of the original braid to get an extra 2" of diameter on the rug.

And I finished it!  I've done a little more since I took these pictures - like the place where I changed colors at the bottom of that previous picture and the medium gray fabric is sticking out from the braid, that got tacked into place, along with a few other spots around the edges. 

I'll get some more detailed, close up pictures of it in it's new home soon, and get the official diameter for you, but I'm super excited.  And it's flat, I promise (the colors make it look wavy, but I swear, it's not).

See? No waves.  All flat.  Most importantly, it's done!!!

til next time...

Tshirt Rug - 3rd time's the charm

Sooo.... I didn't get a picture, but this rug had turned into a sombrero.  

When your son uses it as a ramp for his monster trucks, you know it's not a great rug.

I think it was the stitch I was using to sew the braids together because at one point I changed my stitch and from that point on the rug was fairly flat.  (I've been told that I am using a blind hem stitch and it's working sooo great for me.)  After telling my husband the options, he suggested I finish sewing it to the end.  (Other options were to rip it out and machine sew it, or rip it all out and start again from the center)

Instead I ripped out the center of the rug until it laid flat.  I started resewing towards the center with the clearly better (for me) blind hem stitch .

It's laying nice and flat now, so I'll keep circling in til I get to the center.  Strange enough, it doesn't feel backwards to sew from the outside in.  

Wish me luck.  If it goes wrong at this point I think I may just keep it a doughnut.  I'm losing a little steam with this one.  I'm very glad I didn't rip out the whole thing.  Definitely saved me time and sanity.

til next time....