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Fathers Day from Sew Preeti Quilts

This is my dad.

My dad

Yes, I take after him :-)

Daddy's Girl

He passed away in 1998 and I miss him everyday. The grief never really goes away. You try not to dwell upon it constantly. You eventually learn to think of happy memories when you think of them.

One of my happy memories of my dad is when he would return from an out-of-town work trip. In his shirt pocket, there would be a 5 Star candy bar . As soon as we heard him or saw him at the door, we girls would run up to him ...

added by Preeti 1 year, 10 months ago. under death , despair , disgust , empty pockets , fathers day , grief , mass shootings , old shirts , recycled , repurposed shirts , robb elementary school , school shootings , shirt pockets , upcycled , uvalde , uvalde shooting

Dressing Up - a modern tile qal from Sew Sunshine

"Dressing Up"

Modern Tile Pattern by Mell Meyer

27"x 27"

made from upcycled textiles

hand appliqued shapes on all the blocks

hand quilted with big stitch in med gray

I used all black or black gray textiles. I have always wanted to do dark on dark and thought by making this pattern smaller I could accomplish it and keep my sanity. Sewing with dark thread on blacks requires lots of natural light for me.

As you can imagine with the different textiles - denim, shirting, slippery shirting, skirt weight and stretch denim it was a challenge. Some areas have really ...

added by Kris 2 years, 5 months ago. under black on black , hand applique , hand quilting , mell meyer , modern tiles , qal , textiles , upcycled

Making Waves from Celtic Thistle Stitches

It is reveal day for this quarter's Endeavourers Challenge, this time the theme for the Challenge was "The Sea".

I have called my piece "Making Waves", it is made with strips of upcycled denim for the waves with quilting cotton scraps for the island in the distance.

Over the years I have amassed a store of cast-off denim jeans that my sons either grew out of or decided were no longer their style, so I was delighted to have the perfect excuse to dig them out and start cutting into them.

Flock of seagulls rising from the shoreline

This is the view from my sewing room ...

added by Celtic Thistle 3 years, 5 months ago. under denim , endeavourers , seascape quilt , stumpwork , upcycled

Small changes from Celtic Thistle Stitches

Living by the sea it is hard to ignore the obvious signs of plastic pollution that washes up on the shore here.

We hear about the longevity of plastic straws

and plastic bottles and it is not difficult to find examples of them nestling amongst the rocks and seaweed of our shoreline.

Just before Christmas our youngest son's partner spent a happy couple of hours rifling through my stash cutting up fabrics that she plans to turn into beeswax food wraps. So, inspired by her I thought that I too could use some of that stash to make a ...

added by Celtic Thistle 4 years, 3 months ago. under cotton pad , pollution , upcycled

A bit of housekeeping from Celtic Thistle Stitches

One of the joys of my sewing room (yes it is almost finished!!!) is the pull-out ironing board set in to a cupboard. I know I am easy to please :)

Given the punishment ironing boards take around here I wanted to make a cover for it to make sure that the nice, fawn surface wouldn't get ruined when I inadvertently iron fusible wadding the wrong way round!

So, I grabbed an old shirt of my DH's cut one side out of it and added a part of a sleeve to give me the length that I needed. A ...

added by Celtic Thistle 4 years, 4 months ago. under ironing board cover , recycled shirt , upcycled

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