Took a break from quilting tonight. Couple of reasons.
- It was just one of those days, ya know?
- I ran out of white thread! ACK!!!
- Brad tried to find the thread I wanted, but it couldn't. Its ok I rather get it any who.
- I had some other projects I wanted to do.
I found this super cute little fabric basket at
Pink Penguin
Of course I made some changes, based on what I had.
I found this cool fat quarter. If you look close you will see all kinds of words related to sewing. It is really neat far away too. I thought this would make the perfect thread catcher basket. so I changed up the pattern and instead of quilting a bunch of little squares I just made a band on top of the heavier fabric.
I used a heavy out door fabric from my stash for the bottom. Hoping that it would give the basket a little more stability. On the right I am basting the finished outside to batting. I liked the idea of adding batting between the layers.
Since Red has so many new functions once I was done I thought why not use some of her decorative stitches? So I did. Isn't this cute? When I did the last 2 baskets I used a contrast color so it shows better. I also decided to leave the handles off. I was afraid they would get in the way or they would catch on something.
cute litte spools. Fitting for a thread catcher basket.
All done. Pretty sturdy too
Sorry that it is fuzzy. I made three tonight. Easy I only worked for about 2 hours, maybe less. Too breaks to play with Evelyn. On my last basket I thought it would be nice to have a little of the inside layer trim the top. Gave one to Mom. She is already using it for Nana's stuff. ;o)
Happy Monday!
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