Originally Posted by
SandyinZ4
Love all the latest finishes. Log cabin quilts are so wonderful..still on my bucket list. I too am curious about the lit up red batik tree wall hanging. Are the snow flake things at the top real costume jewelry pins or do they just give that appearance and are fabric design? And I also would like to know how to get the lights in without causing too much of a hole in fabric where they are inserted. Love everyone's latest finishes. Oh..just as an aside. I said I was working on a selvedge jacket. It has now been put in the 'cut up for stuffing' pile. Evidently, there was too much stretch on one side when I was sewing the strips on and I could not get the second sleeve inserted in correctly. There was way too much fabric left over so after 3 attempts to 'fix it', I gave up. If and when there is a next time and there will be, I am going to take my time and measure everything and mark which side each sleeve goes on etc. I still really want to have one.
Time to answer questions - The snow flakes are printed on the fabric in metallic, the fabric is a Stonehenge I believe. To get the light in - I saw one on a display that had button holes for the openings, I did consider that, but the lights that I got from IKEA (a couple of years ago I had purchased 2 - 10 light battery operated strings for another project, that was never created) were SO tiny that I didn't know how I would keep them in the button holes. What I did was figure out where I wanted the lights and while quilting I made some small circles and then made a tiny slit within the circle, just big enough to fit the lights tips in. I also sewed around them on the back to help fasten them to the quilt and sewed a pocket at the bottom to hold the battery packs. Hopefully that will be enough!
So sorry that your jacket didn't work out! Was it a sweatshirt based jacket? I haven't done one of those yet - it's on the list...