Sew What Sunday

Woo, everypup. It's me, Dave! We'd usually do a Sunday Salute today, but our week has been sort of "off" after the big scare with Zim and all. We're still re-grouping and really don't have a Salute prepared ... so Stormy said I should share some of the projects I've been helping Mom with.

Before I get to it, I want to do two things!

#1. A huge THANK WOO to all of you for the good wishes for Zim. The meds seem to be working for him - he hasn't yelped out in pain since they kicked in and he's getting lots of rest. It's hard not being able to play with him!

#2. Another big THANK WOO! This one to Marvin, who nominated us for the Awesome Blog Award! Marvin, you are really a great friend! Thank woo! We are truly honored! Please stop by the Bone Zone at Dogs With Blogs and cast your vote! Good luck to our fellow nominees: Freda, Sir Chance-Lot, and Nanook & Pooka!

On to our projects! Amber showed you the checkbook cover we made as a sample for the Bernina Shoppe.

That's one of our jobs - making samples for the shop using their patterns or fabrics or both - to inspire the customers or give them ideas! (Mom also works with Moseley and Bristol, the Labs, ghost-writing their blog for them.) Here are a couple more little projects we made for the shop.

Above is a little change purse - it's about 3 inches square, if memory serves me. The colors were a little wild for me, but as Mom's Guide Dog for the Color Blind, I made sure they all "go". Here is another little change purse, below:

Same size, different embellishments.

We also made some scented sachets that look like a stack of pillows and embellished them.

Unfortunately for this hard-working GDFTCB, the biggest pillow was only about 5 inches across, so I couldn't rest my weary head on it. Woo.

Here I am, on a well-deserved break in our Quilt Studio. I was going through some of Mom's fabs - I wanted to do stuff with them!

Woo, Mom. Can't we play with our own fabs?

She said we could, so we finished up this scrappy table runner. The pattern is called "Spider Web". Cool, huh?

Here's a close-up for you.

Mom said the fabs are ones she's been saving from quilts she had made from when she first started quilting! There are lots of memories stitched up in this runner!

Speaking of table runners, we made one in Christmas fabrics, using a technique called "Magic 9-Patch". We made a bigger quilt that way for the shop (it's the one Bristol is laying on in that post), but this one is using our fabs.

Bristol interviewed Mom about how to do this; they put up a tutorial of sorts on the Bernina Boys' Blog. We haven't quilted the runner yet, but it's in the "to do" stack!

And here's Mom's latest "hand work" project. I got to choose lots of colors for it! Even though Mom loves to machine quilt with her Bernina, she is a hand-quilter at heart. She also hand-pieced the little Grandmother's Flower Garden pieces here and hand-appliquéd everything. Doesn't this look like it would be great to snuggle under?

Yeah. That's what I thought, too. But here's some size perspective for you:

Woo. I need a bigger quilt!

We've been working on some jewelry and little purses, too, getting Christmas gifts ready! A Guide Dog for the Color Blind's work is never done!

I hope you enjoyed seeing some of our latest projects!

Luv,
Dave