Last week I showed you the paper pieced pencil case I made for my niece from the Patchwork, Please! book.
This week the Patchwork, Please! Zakka Along 2.0 kicked off, the plan is to work through the book with a project a week, linking up and sharing your makes (oh and there might be prizes too).
The first project are some fairly simple coasters, made in the shape of a bell pepper. I had fun pulling scraps from my collection but realised that I do keep some pretty small scraps in those boxes and not many were suitable and big enough! Despite having joined in the text charm swap last year I also discovered that very few of them worked (in my mind) for this project (but happily I’ve taken part in another text charm swap so will have more to choose from soon).
Ok so I will confess that I sewed the red backing to the orange pepper and only realised after I’d trimmed the pepper with my pinking shears and yes incredibly I was patient and unpicked it carefully and sewed the correct parts together:
As I sewed these I did think that with a little tweaking you could make butterfly coasters or round them to make them look more apple like and to be honest one of my children thought they were apples!
I’m adding these to the flickr pool, check it out for everyone elses take on the projects.
They are gorgeous, Mary! I particularly like the yellow one – really cute prints!
Amber x
Well done, especially for the unpicking!
My kids though the yellow one I made this evening was an apple too – thinking of making some a little rounder for teacher gifts!
Just gorgeous! Got my book in the post yesterday! Jxo
oh these turned out really nice, and great hint with the pinking shears!