Handcrafts

I love using items which would probably end up in landfill. Instead I use them to create usable items like fabric bowls, bags, cards, quilts, and other slowstitched projects. Here I will share these items.

Fabric Bowls

I use old bed sheets, quilts, fabric selvage, scraps from other projects and even old clothes to make fabric twine and then using salvaged wool or yarn to make bowls.

Hexagon Quilt

I started this project on my 2nd dose of AC chemotherapy. They are inch hexagons which I thread basted together. I have over 5,000 of the hexagons so far and am getting closer to a finish on a quilt. I was just going to make one king size quilt but now I have multiple quilt ideas so I keep basting and keep sewing. It is a meditation for me. I often carry my "travel box" to appointments so I can continue to thread baste more hexagons.

Chakra Colour Quilt

I was inspired to make this for a wonderful person called Carlie. She had been my massage therapist since 2015 and she is integral to my healing with all my breast cancer treatments. She had a poster in her treatment room of the Chakra healing points so I chose those colours. The quilt block is inspired by the traditional Manx quilt block. Manx is the Isle of Man. They use their hand span measurements for the backing square, the length of their middle finger for the middle square and from the thumb knuckle to the bottom of the nail for the strips. It is an addictive process and there is no wadding so you are quilting as you make the block.

Weekly Slow Stitching Challenge

I have been following a YouTube channel called K3nclothtales since late 2023 and for 2024 she is doing a weekly slow stitch challenge. I made my panels6.5" x 12". I completed 52 panels, the last panels in the first week of 2024. More updated photos coming soon.