FTLOS: Partner Received!

Finally, my partner has received her items! The package sat in the post office in her city for a week before getting to her. Long story, but it has to do with the mail forwarding process. I'm just relieved it got there as I've been driving myself crazy checking the mail at my house for it.

Since she has what I made, I can now share photos with you. My partner was Whitney who made a mosiac of many modern items. There was a lot of improv piecing so I dived in to give that a try. She asked for a sewing machine cover as one of her items and that's what I went with. Also, her color inspiration came from Kate Spain's 'Fandango' which is where I started.

Here's the cover. I opted to make one with ties and wanted to personalize it. I improv pieced strips of three colors: greens, blues, and yellows. To make her name, I did reverse applique. It was quite the process and worked out in the end. I wasn't sure about it until I zigzagged around each letter and then added the hand stitches. The quilting is organic straight lines. I thought that went more with the improv idea rather than total straight quilting.

As for the small item, I used some of the improv pieced strip to make a pouch. I don't recall how big it was now, somewhere around 9" at the longest edge I think.

I also included two fat quarters of peacock fabric since her blog title has peacock in it and at the time of making, her Flickr picture was a peacock feather.

Now as for those squares I shared on Friday? They are finally sewn together and I'm contemplating how to quilt them. I will be finishing this up before I go to bed so I can meet the noon deadline tomorrow. Back then to show you the final result!