Waves Hello
I am thrilled to pieces to have found this forum!
I sew and alter my clothes frequently, but mostly via hand sewing because I don't have a good place for my sewing machine, so I sit on the floor with it.
I'm nearly finished with my Cathedral Window pillow covers. Was maybe going into a quilt - but six inch starting squares is too annoying.
However, my favorite nephew (ok, he's my only nephew) really likes the CW and likes to help sew. So, I dug around for an easier method and found Eddie's fantastic tutorial! I'm getting a table for my freebie chunk of a machine, it's visiting the service place right down the street, and nephew and I are going on a fabric hunt. Mostly for the windows, as I've got a huge pile of a pale blue cotton that's delightful to press. It's an odd width, about 75" or so.
So I'm thinking about either 12 or 18 inch starting squares, probably 12". It will get us done that much faster, and I am thinking I'd quilt the top a bit, simply for durability with an 8 year old boy as the owner.
I love working with my nephew. We've made some odd looking stuffed animals, and questionable fabric choices (Do Daleks come in lime green?) but it's fun. Plus, he loves my poor, abused, stained quilt my grandma made me to take to college. So I put up with neon dinosaurs as pillow backs.
So, that's this Nebraskan's winter sewing plans.
Eina