quilting

Two Little Finishes

January 19, 2024

I have two little finishes to wrap up this week. With all the cold weather this week, I’ve been happy to be home and in my quilt room. You might recall that in past posts, I’ve talked about a little UFO on my design wall that I’ve been given the side-eye while I worked on current projects. This little UFO has been pulled out and put away so many times over the – years! Seriously, years!?! Initially it was meant to be a pillow, I think. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought I should just toss it, but then I’d hesitate and pack it away again. I even considered it for the center block for my SAHRR. Well, with the blustery, cold weather, it seemed an appropriate time to finish it up.

Small quilt of a snowman with a red scarf and earmuffs on a blue background with red border - piecefulthoughts.com

This little quilt measures approximately 12 inches by 22 inches. It is an odd size for a pillow or a mini wall hanging, which I think was part of my hesitation years ago. The fusible used for the snowman is from the early days of fusible, so it is pretty stiff. For the quilting, I used a light blue thread on the background and quilted wavy lines with the idea that it might look like snow blowing around the snowman. I quilted the red border with matching thread, stitching straight lines through the border.

Side view of little snowman quilt with a blue background and red border - piecefulthoughts.com

The backing is a snowflake print I had in my stash, and the binding is the last of the background fabric.

I don’t have any information on the fabrics to share with you. I’ve had them all for quite awhile. I’m glad to finally have this little fella done and out of my UFO stack.

In a recent conversation with my son, he mentioned that he would like a dice tray and wondered if I could make someething like that. Well, that piqued my curiousity, and after a little research, I came up with an idea to try. It worked out really well, and took just a little while to complete.

Image shows a black dice tray in a hexagon shape - piecefulthoughts.com

He wondered if I had any fabric with skulls on them. Surprisingly, I did have some that I used when I made Harry the Crow. I only had enough for one side of the tray, but I had another piece of black fabric that coordinated well.

The tray consists of two hexagon shapes of black fabric, a smaller hexagon of stiff interfacing, another lighter piece of interfacing (to give the sides some stability) and Kam snaps. The photo above shows the tray as it would be used with the dice.; it measures about 10 inches across with the sides up. The snapped sides keep the dice from skittering off the table when rolled. To store the tray, it is unsnapped so it lays flat.

Black dice tray, unsnapped, so it lays flat for storage - piecefulthoughts.com

This was fun to make, and I had it finished in just an hour or two. The hardest part was making sure I had the kam snap pieces right!

And that wraps up my week here at Pieceful Thoughts! I hope you stop back on Monday when it’s my turn to share the first border for the Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) 2024! See you then!

Wendy

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