Craft Basket Wednesday

This past Saturday, our family hosted our 4-H club for a rocket building/pillowcase sewing meeting.  Most of the members worked on rockets, but three chose to make pillowcases.  Angelina has no interest in rockets, so she was one of the three seamstresses who made a pillowcase.  She chose fabric from samples I had on hand (purchased when Hancock Fabrics went out of business a couple years ago).  I had wanted to make her a quilt out of these fabrics, but… we moved… and I had a baby… there’s really not much time to quilt!  Pillowcases are quicker/easier to sew and the bed-set came with linens and a pre-made quilt. On a side note, the bed-set came from my childhood room and was the wedding gift given to my maternal grandparents by my maternal great-grandparents – it’s mahogany and beautiful – this bed-set started my longing for dark cherry furniture.  Anyhoo, maybe I’ll make her a matching lap quilt to curl up in while she reads late into the winter nights.  You know the kind that lay across the the foot of the bed in pictures, but in real life are in a heap on one side of the couch!


The pattern for the pillowcases came from a kit … I just really liked the fabric combination.  Of course, the colors don’t match anything in my bedroom, but the fabric is a silky cotton that I’ll enjoy.  This pattern is quick and easy to sew – definitely under an hour.  Why do I buy pillowcases when construction is this easy??


The bold floral prints are from the kit …



The brown & pink that match Angelina’s room decor…




The full size view – hard to really appreciate the layering in the smaller photos…

 


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