This was my week off from the Project Quilting challenges. The new one was announced today. So hard to believe that this is the last theme for the year.
The theme is Happy Handful in which we make something small enough to hold in your hand. My Pocket Hugs would work for that.
Marsha Cooper wanted more information about these, but she may be a no-reply blogger, so I will answer here. It is not a formal organization or anything, so they can be any size, or shape. Pocket Hugs are little things you can make (or buy) to give to someone as a remembrance of your love and support. You can give it to someone especially when they are going to do something like a trip, getting married, job interview, etc. Or you can just surprise someone with it in their lunch box, pocket, etc. for a random act of kindness.
I am working on a video tutorial for it, and will make some printouts that can explain its purpose and be attached to them for gifting.
There is a related thing which is more formal called I Found a Quilted Heart, where you make little hearts and hide them around the world for strangers to find. You put a note on it so people know it is for them, and not something that has been lost or stolen. There is a Facebook group where people can post the ones they find or hide.
Anyway, this challenge makes me excited. Although I could easily make another Pocket Hug (and I still might do that), I have a glass cookie jar I got from the thrift store several years ago. My plan was to make little bowl fillers, and this challenge is a great way to start on that challenge. I have also been thinking about making those hanging chickens (prosperity hens) that I saw in a tutorial. I was about to make the hens, but then I didn't want to start anything new, and I started about thinking about other shapes to make instead of hens. I hope this is a good start to make those little stuffed things.
15 Minutes to Stitch
I have continued to make progress on my week away from the Project Quilting challenge. I felt like I should be continuing at a speed pace so that I could make good progress on my off week, but then I decided that I needed to rest up so I could be successful next week.
Also, sewing is supposed to be fun, and productivity is something for the job, and not for quilting.
In my relaxed snake, I made the "snake" I made for my Dots and Dashes quilt a little bit bigger and sewed it around the quilt, log cabin style. It is now about 30 inches across, and I think I want about 10 more inches, so I have started another snake. A snake, in case you don't know is one and a half inch strips sewn end to end. They are from scraps so they can be long strips (dashes) or super short ones (dots).
Apparently, part of the sentence I wrote in my last post was deleted while I was editing it, so I completed it. I continued to make progress on the Lupine and Laughter mystery quilt, and it is now looking more like the intended quilt than just parts and pieces. Although I have seen posts from people who made their quilt scrappy, I think I will probably win the award if there was one for the most scrappy. I hope it will look okay in the end.
- 15 minute days / March = 14 / 14 days
- 15 minute days / 2026 = 73 / 73 days
- Success rate = 100%
2 comments:
You have a busy design wall. Looking forward to seeing what you do for the last project quilting prompt. You've done will with the previous prompts. Your version of Lupine and Laughter is going better than mine is. Happy stitching this week.
I think the Pocket Hugs project is a great idea. I Googled to read more about it, and it looks like the item is most often a heart. Confession: I don't like hearts. I know, I know. I'm probably one of the few people in the world who doesn't care for them. Something about the shape, or perhaps the commonality of them.... In any case, I bet a Pocket Hug could be made in another shape. I really like the looks of your design wall. Good stuff there, especially the row of pink "bottomed" HSTs. Maybe they're going into a block? Anyway, it all looks good!
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