WIP Wednesday

Apologies to anybody who has already seen the result of the first pouch but thanks to freaking out about the two swaps I'm in, I don't have lots of new things to show this week. Fortunately there was a teensy bit of progress on my ideas for the swaps.

There's been two trial runs on making zippered purses/pouches for the Mouthy Stitches Swap. The first one, the zip was just that little bit too long. I followed a tutorial which was fairly good in general but I had a couple of problems with it, and there are definitely things I would change if I used that tutorial again. I also put a pocket inside this one too.




The second pouch I used a combination of Katy's tutorial and the zipper insertion tutorial Katy recommended at Sew Sweetness but I cut the zip just a little too short this time, my fault not the tutorial's fault. I'm much happier with the construction of this one, although not so happy with the overall shape.  The triangle is made up of 25 paper pieced triangles in Lark by Amy Butler.
Now I'm crossing everything that third time will do it.

I think I've also,
after changing my mind about 3,895 times,
come up with something that my partner will really like.


I love this, I'm hoping it looks as good once I've sewn it all together and made it into a pouch. The pressure is on, as there are some beautiful pouches appearing from some very talented people.

I've been working on the Name Game Swap as well, where I make a mini quilt with the name of my partner or partner's blog on it. That has been difficult as I have a very silent partner, not a peep out of her since the swap began.  I'm hoping she will like it anyway.

I've cut out her name and fused it to the background. I still need to fuse the pieces from the pic above.

Here's a couple of very tiny pieces of it.



I can't show you any more as it will spoil the surprise for my partner.

Finally I received my Lily Quilt back from Fiona my longarm quilter. It looks fabulous, not that you can tell from this really crappy photo.



I'm finding it difficult to decide what to use for the binding.  I don't want to buy any more fabric, so I've tried to find something in my stash. This is where I need your opinion. Does this look better than just ok? It's a Kaffe stripe,  I can't decide whether it's a good match or just ok. Which usually means that I should find something else, maybe a solid, or possibly scrappy, although I don't have much left of the fabrics I used in the quilt. Please help what do you think?

Worked On This Week
Mouthy Stitches Swap
Name Game Swap

Ignored
Lily Quilt
Tiggly Winks
McFlurry
Material Obsession BOM
Starflowers
Amitie BOM

This Weeks Statistics
Finished - 2 (pouches)
Worked On -  4 ( 3 pouches and 1 mini quilt)
Ignored - everything else
New - 2 pouches, I mini quilt

Next week I hope to get back into playing with some of my long term projects. The pressure has been on to try and make something interesting and different for both my partners. Never having made a zippered pouch before, it's been a bit of a steep learning curve and lots of practice so that I can send something decent that won't  fall apart or elicit a......what the? response when it's received.

Thanks again to Lee for hosting WIP Wednesday, click on the button to check out what else has been happening this week.