Now that the VMQG has held their Christmas meeting I can share one recent make with you, though. I love this one. It's a little beyond the intention of the scrap swap we did (last month we all brought a sandwich baggie filled with our own scraps with our name concealed inside. Then we grabbed a bag off the table to take home and spend a couple of hours making something out of the scraps to gift back to the scrap owner). I might have spent more than a couple of hours.
I made this machine cover for my lovely friend Berene. In the summer, she bought a Pfaff QE 4.0, the same machine I have. It was my plan to make her a cover for it (since she sews at her dining table) for her fall birthday, but I didn't manage it. This swap was a perfect opportunity and I was happy to score Berene's scraps! All of the wonky stars, patches and the strip along the top of the machine were in her scrap bag. The medium grey Kona were all scraps of mine from this quilt (which, by the way, is now quilted and bound - photos as soon as the rain stops here. I'm thinking maybe May).
Having the same machine made sizing a breeze. The panel across the top of the machine has a piece of heavy weight interfacing under it so that the front and back sides drape vertically from the top of the machine. These geometric quilting lines are a triple stitch that I love using for stand out lines - here I used a 28wt Aurifil that has a lovely sheen. The cover is quilted with a fun backing fabric that I've enjoyed using on the back of various projects over the past couple of years (yikes, I'm almost out!).
The cover was finished just in the nick of time, so I didn't have a chance to take any photos - thanks for taking and sharing these ones Berene!
I plan to make another appearance prior to Christmas, but if you're taking a blog-reading break, then I'll take this opportunity to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday! xox
27 comments:
What an amazing machine cover! I'm sure Berene loved it.
Merry Christmas to you and a wonderful new year too. What a lovely sewing machine cover!
Your comments seem to indicate that I (your SIL) might get something for Xmas sewed by you. Yipee! You could post it and I promise not to look. Ha ha. Hmmm I wonder what it might be. I hope the back is a nice as the front because you know I always like the back best. Looking forward to 7 a.m. on the 25th at your house!
Gorgeous machine covers!! Brilliant idea! Merry Christmas and the best ever holiday!! Enjoy those kids!!
Big HUG!
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Nice! Love the way you quilted it.
Merry Christmas♥♥♥
It's a beautiful sewing machine cover, but I'd expect no less from you, Krista! Have a great holiday and I'll see you in January!
I like it! It is so much nicer than some of the machine covers I have seen. She will like it a lot.
Merry Christmas Krista, I hope your family has a wonderful time together.
Oh you did great, as always!
The machine cover is awesome. I love it and I think I maybe should make one for my Horizon. Thanks for the idea you have given me
What a fun idea for a swap and with such a beautiful outcome! Happy holidays in case I miss your next post:)
wow, it's gorgeous!!! Love all that heavy stitching.
So cute :). And for another one of my favorite people :)
Berene had a lovely bag of scraps for you to work with and you turned them into a gorgeous machine cover. Merry Christmas!
What a lovely cover and an lucky friend.
That is snazzy and CUTE! Happy Christmas to you and your family and I'll see you next year!
Love the machine cover!
We had a swap at our guild too (PMQG) ~ everyone made the most amazing things. I got a lovely table runner ~ love swaps ~ so fun to see what people make!
This is seriously cute. You are a really great present giver, you know.
Now, what say you about the Pfaff? I am looking at getting a new machine when I get home and I was looking at the Pfaff and the Janome Horizon 8900 (the upgrade of the 7700). Are you happy with yours?
Tis the season for sewing machine covers. One of my guilds had that as a swap earlier this month.
Merry Christmas!
That is just gorgeous! And I totally comiserate on not being able to show gifts until after Christmas. It's almost frustrating to not be able to show progress photos or to be working on something but can' t prove it, lol.
Love the machine cover but I'm most taken with those wonky stars. A friend gave me instructions on how to do something similar but I lost it; I'll have to study yours.
What a beautiful present! Lucky Berene, she must be sew happy with it. See what I did there, wink, wink!
You can translate a bag of my scraps anyday you like!! This is lovely and I just know that Berene was thrilled with it.
Beautiful! Such a great gift.
really lovely, Krista! And that lining fabric is so awesome!
This is so wonderful! Happy sew lucky indeed!!
LUCKY DUCK!! Lady who got to have your wonderful creation! Maybe you have a pattern... in the works?
hugZ,
annie
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