Recently I have been wanting to use up the little pieces of fabric I have. I don’t have much fabric at all, but am planning to sew some simple dresses and maybe a skirt or two in the future. I will be buying fabric for each project as I go, which is a nice calm way to go about things.
A housewife’s fabrics are resources, to be enjoyed - and used. Otherwise they can cease to be a resource, and morph into burdens, that will not benefit us.
I began to look at my unused or half used fat quarters, one at a time. There was an attractive green floral FQ in the box which seemed a good place to start
The above planning sketch was not intended to be a work of art 😊
I used a hot iron on the steam setting, to press all the creases out, then folded over about a quarter of an inch on all sides once. Then folded over again and pressed to get a nice crisp fold
At this point I could have hand stitched along the hems, but decided to use my old Bernina mini-matic sewing machine to sew them, on the straight stitch setting. Then I pressed all around again to “set the stitches”.
I hope to post more simple projects if you find them interesting
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