One more PB, thread, and clearing up the big table

I forgot to publish my post from yesterday! What the what? So if you are interested in my three days of crazy go take a look. Meanwhile, I packed up the PBs. I counted 99 including the bunch that were returned to me. They filled three containers. Add in another 11 for the designer gifts and table gifts and that's a lot of project bags!  LOL!!

I decided I needed to make it an even 100 for the people at the retreat so I took that leftover interfaced lining piece and cut the rest of the pieces I needed to make it a bag. It didn't take long to make.

I then packed up the thread beds. Here are 183 I will be taking. Add in the 11 for the table gifts and designers, 1 for Anne, 1 that I kept because of that mark on the flannel, another one I decided to keep and the new pig TB. Well, you get the idea - I made a lot! LOL!!

Two boxes were delivered yesterday.

One was some thread from a friend who didn't want it.

The other was thread that had an extra 20% off the sale prices.  The smaller spools are regular sewing thread.  

I had to laugh that one cone I bought was the same color as a cone that my friend sent me! This will be perfect for quilting one of my bunkhouse quilts.

I have been still cleaning up the studio and here is the table after last weekend and what it looks like now. In the back corner are two quilt tops that are first on my list since I am done with TBs and PBs for now.

Three days of crazy!

I took Friday off to get some stuff done. I went to my hair appointment, ran some errands and then headed to the sewing studio. I got the one scissor pouch and PBs I needed for table gifts done.

Here is the back of the odd one. I don't think it looks too bad.

I was cleaning up the big table and found enough pieces to make two more scissor pouches.

I made a different type of pouch for my beautician's scissors.

For my brother, I fixed two shirts, an equipment bag for the band, and a seam that was missed in one of the shirts we sell at the merch booth.

I finally got the snaps in these 18 thread beds.

Then I needed to replace a few snaps that had fallen out of the thread beds my friend had sent back to me. These 15 TBs were made before I bought The Hulk. I replaced the missing snaps and put each snap back in The Hulk and pressed them again to make sure they won't fall out.

There is one lady at the needlework shop I wanted to make something special for. She mentioned she like ocean fabrics so I made her a thread bed and scissor pouch.

I wanted to make something for me and experiment with adding another pocket to a thread bed. I had bought a cute chart, but in my regular TB, it was close to not fitting. Here you can see it just sticking out of the pocket.  I kept this TB after I noticed that there was a dark streak thru the flannel.  No way I could sell it so I just kept it for myself.  

Here in this new version, you can see the chart easily fits in the new flannel pocket side of the TB.  So now there are two pockets.  I will have to make and send a couple of this style to my sister to get her opinion

I interfaced the flannel and backed it with matching fabric before I sewed the binding at the edge. I made the width of the TB 1 1/4" wider and the height just 1/4" bigger.

For good measure I decided to make some boxy pouches for little gifts just in case.

I spent time putting things away in the studio and did spend about an hour blowing leaves. On top of all of this I caught a cold which started on Friday and spent a lot of time blowing my nose this weekend. I have killed off almost two boxes of Kleenex already. I do feel better today and I think taking Zicam with elderberry has helped!

Got that seventh project bag

I wanted to give as my table gifts at the retreat a matching TB, scissor pouch, and PB. I was short a PB and half of the fabric I needed for one more scissor pouch. What I had was nothing but cut up pieces and a partially made TB. I started last evening by going ahead and putting together the six PB that I knew had all the pieces. They now just need to have the self-binding pressed and sewn then they will be done.

So then I laid out the fabric parts and pieces I had left.

I took apart the zipper pocket that was made for the TB and there was enough fabric for the other half of the scissor pouch.

I then press all the tan sampler pieces to figure out which ones would work the best to add to the 12 1/2" x 15" outside piece. I needed the outside piece to measure 14" x 16"

I was able to match up the pattern for the bottom piece so the seam is barely noticeable.

I press the heck out of the seams so they would be nice and flat then I trimmed it to 14" x 16". The add on fabric will be part of the self binding so I don't think they will be that noticable.

Here the interfaced lining piece and the altered backing piece are ready for quilting.

OH we are not done! LOL!! I still needed the pieces for zipper. I didn't have enough of the tan sampler fabric like I used for the rest of the PBs.

So I took the last extra interfacing lining piece, heated it up and pulled the fabric off the interfacing.

There was still some glue on the back of the fabric, but I pressed it lightly and cut the pieces I needed. So now I have all the parts I need for that seventh bag. If the table where I sit at the retreat isn't filled, then I might not need to give this one away.  The round tables usually are set up for 8 stitchers. 

This was a lot of fiddling around, but I am happy I was able to get that 7th just-in-case project bag.

And that's how it is done!

200 DONE! Yes, I got the last 23 finished! Woohoo! I am happy to have met my goal. Now I know I will have plenty for everyone.

But wait - there's more! I finished the four scissor pouches to go with the matching project bags and thread beds for the four designers.

But wait - there's even more! I finished six scissor pouches to go with the thread beds for table gifts!

I have been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out how I am going to get the seventh scissor pouch when I only have enough of that gold sampler fabric for half a pouch or at least I thought. This morning I was straightening up my table a bit and organizing what projects that still need finished and I think I figured out a solution. Meanwhile, this is what my table looks like. It's not as messy as it looks because I know where everything is!

I will show you my solution as soon as I get farther along with finishing up projects. I had bought 6 yards of that tan sampler fabric and a bolt of the gold sampler fabric (I had used some of it before I started this round of projects) and here I am scrounging for scraps to try and complete projects! LOL!!!

Six more done

I sewed those last 29 scissor pouches together. After that I turned 16, pressed them, then topstitched. I was running out of time so I punched the holes for the snaps in 6 and finished stitching those. I now have 177 out of 200 done or 88.5% done!

Here are the 10 ready to have the holes punched, snaps installed, and then the final stitching.  I will easily be able to get these done tonight.  

I packed up the remaining pouches that need turned to do the turning at lunch today.

Last evening the postman delivered a package which turned out to be a birthday present! Yes, this is my birthday season. I put it like that because you don't want to be exact on social media with personal information. This was such a lovely surprise from the daughter of a blogging friend! There was a sweet card.

She made this cool bag for me! We lean politically the same way and it totally cracked me up with the MAKE ME appliqued on it! I love it!

The other side is a bit racy.  It is all about not complying in advance.

If that wasn't enough, Melissa crocheted me this lovely piece. I will have to find a special place for it.