Saturday, February 9, 2019

Bigger than a Bread Box - Project Quilting challenge 10.3

For the latest project quilting challenge we were given the theme "Bigger than a Bread Box".  Our creations could be anything, as along as they met the size requirement of one measurement larger than 16″, and another measurement larger than 9″.

I was inspired by the breadbox idea and decided to make a cover for my sewing machine.  



Since I would be looking at this pretty much every day, of course I had to use my favorite fabric - Cherrywood hand dyed with a little bit of Ricky Tims hand dyed thrown in.

I started by making strip sets and somewhere along the line I thought it might be fun to add some decorative stitching.  Which led to the idea of stitching out all of the decorative 
(leaving out the utility and various alphabet) stitches my machine has so I'd have a reference right there on my sewing machine cover.  


Well I seriously under estimated just how many stitches that meant and just how much time it would take.  I quickly realized I would need more strips so I cut the sets I already had in half.  I filled each of those strips with a decorative stitch and I still had a LOT of stitches left.  I added the grey stripe between strip sets and more decorative stitches, this time closer together so I could get them all on there.  Once more I ran out of room and I still hadn't used all of the stitches.  But now I was committed, so I included one more strip set and two more grey stripes for the top. 


225 stitch outs and four days later, I was finally ready to put all the pieces together.  Whew.


It was a lot of work, but in the end, completely worth it.  



Stitch Library Sewing Machine Cover


Size:  23" x 11" x 10"
I create in Casa Grande, AZ


Check out all of the entries for this challenge at 
click the link and then scroll down the page to find the entries

12 comments:

  1. Love all the decorative stitching on your machine cover!

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  2. LOVE!!! Useful, protective, AND decorative PQ Challenge project. Your Stitch Library Machine Cover is SEW much better than the sad piece of muslin with my stitches on it!

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  3. This is brilliant! I'm totally doing this for my new bernina!!!! Great work!

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    1. Thank you! Be forewarned, it takes forever to do all the stitch outs. I used a fusible stabilizer to back everything but found I still needed to add some tear away stabilizer for some of the denser stitches. And even though it all worked out somehow, I wish I had planned ahead for how many stitches I would be doing and how best to space them out. Have fun with it. I sure did.

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  4. This is pretty and great idea! Congratulations on your win!

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