Making 2026: Week #8

Hello 'maker' Friends!

I've got a little bit of a new format I'm going to try this week that will hopefully help keep me focused on the things I want to get done ...

Let's give it a try ...

What I recycled and or repurposed:  This skirt was repurposed from a dress that had way too many ruffles in all the wrong places for my taste, so I turned it into a skirt.  I paired it with a black pullover sweater that I had and turned it into what I think is a really cute outfit.

Progress on a 'work in progress' or unfinished project.  (If I've laid a project aside for at least a month, it is being categorized as a work in progress or unfinished project.):  This project is way past the one month qualifier that makes it an unfinished project!!!  In fact this project is way past the one year mark and the only thing it needed to be finished was I need to stuff it ... that's all!  I did that today!

I love little mini cross-stitched pillows.  I have several I've done over the years and bring out according to the season.  This obviously is a Christmas one ... that is now finished!!  Hoot!  Hoot!  One down ... several more to go!

Quilting project:  I completed block #5 in my patriotic quilt!

A sewing channel/video I watched this week:  This week I watched this Youtube video by Dorothy's Daughter.  She and I think alike when it comes to our sewing stash!  Do you have a sewing channel you could recommend?

That's it for this week!  I'd love to hear what your working on and or 'making!'

 Until the next week!

mrs. patsi @ Grandma's Got a Sewing Machine

My other blogs:

A Working Pantry

From This Heart of Mine

Making 2026: week # 7

Hello sewing friends!  This week I'm back in my sewing nook working on a couple of different projects ... both to be future quilts ... 

I shared this picture last week ... block cut out and ready to be marked and stitched ...

Ta-da ... all stitched up!  It's hard to imagine that those small squares and rectangles could be turned into the above, isn't it!

Here it is added to the other 3 I've completed thus far.

Reminder:  these blocks are part of a free sew-along with Jessica Dayon - Quilting and More.

Remember that stack of Christmas themed log cabin blocks I showed you last week that I had finished stitching up?  This week I trimmed them to the same size and decided on the pattern I wanted to use.  The log cabin blog is so versatile and can be laid out in many different ways creating many different looks.  Next week, I hope to be able to start sewing the blocks together, now that the planning and prep part is over.

That's it for this week!  I'd love to hear what your working on and or 'making!'

 Until the next week!

mrs. patsi @ Grandma's Got a Sewing Machine

My other blogs:

A Working Pantry

From This Heart of Mine

Making 2026: Weeks 4, 5, & 6

 Hello, my sewing friends!  With the 12 inches of snow we got, prepping for that and life in general, I've not had time to sit down and bring everyone up to date on my many projects.  I plan to change that in today's post, let's get started ...

The doll blanket I was crocheting turned into a real life baby blanket!  I got carried away crocheting and to be honest, not paying attention to what I was doing.  Once I realized I had made it much bigger than I planned I had several rows done and decided not to undo it.   Not to worry, it will be used as a gift in early summer for a real live baby.  I have enough of this pink Bernat Baby Blanket yarn  left to do a baby doll blanket.  This time I will be more mindful of my crocheting!  

All 3 of these pieces of fabric are slated to become aprons ... two for me (I wear aprons quite a lot and as a result they wear out and or get so stained that I can't get them clean.  This is the time of year that I like to inventory my aprons and replace any that need replacing.)  The third piece of fabric (the puppy one) is for an apron for a grand.  Grandma is making aprons for all the grands this year for Christmas.  This puppy fabric is perfect for one of them!  This fabric has been washed and is waiting to be cut out ... then I'll batch sew them!

These are the pieces for the 4th block in my patriot quilt.  I got behind on this project, but as you can see 'getting behind' doesn't mean giving up!

And last, but certainly not least, I pulled out these log cabin blocks that are now over a year old and finished them up.  This is my current WIP project, one of my sewing goals this year is to work on my Work-In-Progress projects that are 6 months old or older.  Please tell me you have WIP's that are as old as mine!

One more thing, I haven't forgotten about the request to show how I made my sewing labels.  I hope to get that done this coming week!

That's it for this week!  I'd love to hear what your 'making!'

 Until the next week!

mrs. patsi @ Grandma's Got a Sewing Machine

My other blogs:

A Working Pantry

From This Heart of Mine