Pillow Cases

 I made some pillow cases recently, one I gave away already so I don't have a picture of it.  But I do have pictures of the others.

First one up is a Paw Patrol pillow case that I will give to a Relay For Life group.

The next one is an effort to use up some of my sewing theme fabric along with having a fun pillow case for Retreats.

And the last one is made from some Nebraska Shop Hop fabric.  I went on a bus trip this past April with a local quilt shop.  I found this old Shop Hop fabric on clearance so I picked up enough fabric to make four pillow cases.  And all four of the cases are completed.

I make my cases using the "burrito method".  I found a great cutting chart here at "Hello Sewing".  Here is a tutorial also at that site. There are also lots of tutorials on YouTube if you would like watch one being made. 

 I've read about how people use their fabric to make pillow cases for charity.  My problem is I don't have many fabrics that I buy a yard of.   I buy so many fat quarters as I love scrape quilts and I'm always looking for variety.  But I may surprise myself if I went through all my fabric and pulled out any that could be used to make more cases.

Charm Tablemat

Yesterday I pin basted my CharmTablemat.  It's a free pattern from Country Threads.   And it uses only one charm pack.  I have a number of charm packs and have been looking for patterns that use only one charm pack. and this one was perfect for this charm pack.

This charm pack was from the All Iowa Shop Hop a number of years ago, 2015 to be exact.  While I made this tablemat I worked on fish blocks as my Leader/Enders, so I was technically working on my Project 52.   

Nothing New

I have nothing new to show for the last couple of weeks.  I ended up sick over The Fourth Of July and grandkids didn't come visit.  I'm hoping for a visit soon!

I did try doing a little sewing last week and I ended up with a thread caught in the uptake workings.  So now I need to take my Bernina in for a cleaning, oil and fix.  Always something, right?

I had been working on my patriotic kit and it made it this far before the thread got caught.  It's ready for the borders.