The first Finish it up Friday – Tee Shirt Scraps Quilting
Hello there and welcome to my first “Finish it up Friday” where I hope to post about completed projects. Like many crafters and artists I love to start projects; the planing, designing, digging through my stash or my closet, and then the hushed murmurs to myself “you only need a bit of solid background fabric, why shouldn’t you just pop on over to the LFS* and get what you need???” but alas, I don’t seem to complete these projects as often as I’d like. I’m allowing completed “stages” of a project, as most of my hobbies are slow going. This could be something like “finished piecing this quilt top” instead of just “Sha-BLAM! I just finished a whole dang quilt”. I also definitely can not hold myself to that standard of completing a quilt each week every week for my foreseeable sewing future. The batting cost alone would break me.
Finish it up Friday should give me some sort of accountability. Something that gets me to do all the more tedious finishing steps instead of the tempting and exciting designing steps of something new. I’m hoping I can get something like a web-ring going with other people who want to showcase their completed projects no matter what they are. Sharing in comments could be a start. I’m not on most of the big social media sites so I haven’t thought the logistics through completely. It’s a work in progress for sure. I really miss the very interactive nature of how blogs and websites were back when I was a teen and I’d love to get back to that feeling of community and connect with makers from across the world.
Anyways! Here is my (first) Friday Finish; I completed the quilting to my Tee Shirt Scraps Quilt. It went by waaaaaay faster than my last project that I quilted at home but was still slow going and heavy to move around to boot. I’m really drawn to quilting that echos the piecing but the downside to it is that I now have a ton of ends to weave in. I briefly contemplated last week of echo quilting every single piece in the quilt but then came to my senses. Changing the thread/bobbin and going over every piece is just too much for the casual couch quilt this one is meant to be.
I read a tip in an old sewing book that you can use those easy-thread needles / cheater needles for weaving in ends to save time. It felt like such perfect and timely advice and something I would have never thought of. I tested a few ends already and it does feel faster. Trying to push 2+ strands of thread through a needle eye feels dang near impossible sometimes and it is how I broke my one more expensive Clover needle threader 🙁
Oh and I’m going to also get a “recipe” of sorts for a Tee Shirt Scraps Quilt posted ASAP before
I forget how I did everything. Or a full on Tutorial/Pattern whichever makes sense and is the most helpful 😀 I didn’t take any pictures during the making process so it won’t be too great at first but I have sooooo many scraps still left so another Tee Shirt Scrap Quilt is on the horizon for sure. Where I can document the process better for others. And well that’s that, enjoy your weekend ya’ll! And hopefully seeya next week with another Friday Finish hot off the press.
*(is LFS a thing? LYS definitely is and if there is a Local Yarn Shop, there should surely be a Local Fabric Shop [I looked it up and seems like LQS Local Quilt Shop is the standard but like… Not all places have dedicated quilt shops and many people only have access to places like Michael’s, Hobby Lobby, or a thrift store. LFS can be limiting in that way as well I suppose; maybe from now on for me personally it can be LFAS for Local Fabric Acquisition Site.)
Warning: I’m a serial rambler and Millennial AF which is probably apparent by now.
