Saturday, April 11, 2026
wide leg cargos
The remnants were about six inches shy in length for the pattern so I had to figure out a way to make it work. I decided to turn it into a fashion statement and make the pants in three sections.
had plenty of heavy duty thread from the last time I made something out of denim and I thought it would be really fun to add a ton of top stitching.
I don’t know if it was actually fun doing all that top stitching, it wasn't hard, just time consuming. I used a double needle, which I wasn’t sure would work on the thick seams but my machine took it like a champ. I really liked how even the stitching is with a double needle as opposed to trying to sew with a single needle twice and keeping it even.
I used a little bit of math to get the sections the right length (yea for math skills!) And I love all the pockets. There are so many and they are so deep and can hold so much stuff. Like I don’t even need a purse when I wear these.
One thing I didn’t like about the pattern was the way they said to put in the zipper. I thought I would try it their way even though I have put in tons of zippers. I thought maybe they would have an easier way of doing it. Um…. no they did not have an easier way. In fact it was weirdly complicated. I couldn't figure it out at all so after an hour or so of trying to figure out their way I gave up and just did it the way I have always done it and I don’t know why I ever tried something new. It took seventeen minutes to put the zipper in once I did my way. Sometimes it's better to ignore pattern directions and just do the way you know. I need to remember the directions are kind of just a guide.
I really like the way they turned out. My favorite part is the star accent on the back pockets, I freehanded them on my machine and I really like the little hidden star fabric on the inside of the side pocket flaps. It's like a little secret bit of joy! oh and I guess I forgot to get a photo of that little detail but I assure you it is there.
Full disclosure here the road was closed to vehicles, but open for recreation. Please never sit in the middle of an open road.
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Saturday, March 28, 2026
Superman quilt
I decided to make a quilt for a friend who is expecting and I like to try to personalize a little for the family and this family seems to like superman alot. So I went with a superman theme.
I spent a good little bit of time trying to find a simple superman shield block for this quilt. I found a few that were simple but I didn’t like the way they looked and I kept coming back to this one. It's paper pieced and I have never done paper piecing. I’ve been told by a few people that paper piecing was really difficult and had to be taught in hours-long classes. Basically I was told it was far too advanced for me to even try so it always felt intimidating. Well I really liked this block and after staring at the pattern for a while I thought well I could always just try it. It doesn’t look that hard. The pattern itself didn’t have any instructions with it. I guess they assume you will already know how to paper piece if you are trying this. It's literally just a pattern with numbers and colors. I’m sure I could have looked up tutorials but I decided to try it on my own. And here is what I found. Paper piecing is really basic, it's not that hard to figure out, but it is time consuming. That is the only reason I can figure the people told me it was really hard. I didn’t find it any harder than piecing together traditional quilting. And honestly I am sure there are plenty of quick tutorials out there describing how to do paper piecing (the site I got the pattern from does have a tutorial section, I’ve just never looked at it). I did admittedly mess up on the first block at the beginning, I started putting it together backwards, I however realized this fairly quickly and started over and the rest of the shield blocks went together without too much trouble.
The rest of the quilt I did just simple blocks that I came up with. I really liked working with the bright primary colors; it added a bit of happiness to it. I was happy with the way this turned out. And I really like that fandom in stitches offers patterns for free. This is the first pattern I have tried from there but probably not the last.
Patten for the superman shield Its in the justice league category
If paper piecing seems too intimidating or time consuming they also have a good applique block.
Superman shield block Designed by Lilja Björk Sigurdórsdóttir
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