Sewtember Day One.

I decided that September was a good month to challenge myself by sewing everyday. I know this is fairly common for me anyway, but usually I take a couple of days off every now and then, so this is a good opportunity to get some gift sewing done, among other things.

I was working on something today that I can't show you...I know, boring right? You'll see it soon, I promise! So in the meantime, I decided to share some work I was doing during the last week. If you don't know me yet, there are a couple of things you may not know about me:

First - I love colour!

Second - I love stunning contrast!

C - I love using up the little bits that other people throw out, there is no such thing as scraps!

and 4 - I love fabric!!!!! (most of you would have picked up on that last one at least)

So here is a picture of some of this weeks work.

These were some ideas for using up some little strip pieces I had in my stash.

This one is cool. I really like it.

I like the idea of this, but I'm not sure about how to do it. More thinking involved and maybe this could work . It's more fiddly because of the different sized pieces.

Like I said, I love colour!!

My assistant and I decided that coloured stripes looked the coolest and would be the easiest to put together. She also loves colour and helping to arrange fabrics for my stuff (it's late and I couldn't think of a better word...oh, maybe "projects".) Yeah, she loves arranging bits for my projects!

Stacked and ready to sew. Love it!!

First stripe done!

All the stripes done and trimmed and ready for joining.

This is it so far. I think my assistant needs to grow a little. Hold on...

There we go. It's handy being able to tie string to the walls for displaying this sort of thing.

I love the look so  far. I'm hoping to do some more of this in the next few days, but I do need to get a couple of other bits done. Maybe even something I can show you.

Oh, this is my assistant handing me pegs and admiring the tiny strips in each of the stripes. So helpful!!

Just a quick look at the back. Doesn't look too bad. I do need to trim some little thready endy bits off, but I was being a little lazy with this one. It was a procrastination time filler. I know others have them too, so I don't feel too bad about starting this rather than doing my other things.

It's really been inspired by the gorgeous weather we had early in the week. Shame now that Spring is actually here that so is the wintry cold...whatever...

See you tomorrow, hopefully with another project to show you.

Night!!

P.S. What did you sew today?