The new school year is about to begin. I am anticipating lots of reading, lots of homework, and lots of exciting learning. Unfortunately it also means that my sewing machine will sit patiently waiting for me while I ignore it more often than usual.
But from now on . . . it’s not going to collect dust! Voila! . . . a new dust cover for my sewing machine!
Some people start the new school year by buying school supplies. I make sewing machine covers. Go figure.
A few days ago I spent some happy hours in my studio sorting through old quilt tops, deciding which were worth keeping for “someday” and which should go to comfort quilts or even to the trash bin. When I came across the black and white composition I had pieced five years ago in Nancy Crow’s class at QBL, I was uncertain about what to do with it. I just couldn’t part with it. But I certainly didn’t want to make it into a quilt. And so it became one of those “just can’t part with it” quit tops that we all keep around for no reason. I looked at it for a while, shrugged my shoulders, re-folded it, and put it back in the drawer.
This morning I thought I’d spend a little time puttering in my studio before the school year grabs me by the throat. In search of inspiration, my eyes landed on my sewing machine. The poor thing had no idea it was going to be neglected so soon. But at least it will collect dust no more! It is now lovingly adorned with a cover fashioned from two pieces cut out of that black and white Nancy Crow workshop quilt top. It took almost no time to cut out two 23″ x 13″ pieces from the quilt top, layer them, quilt them lightly, sew them together on three sides, hem the bottom, and “square up” the corners. Ta-da! All done! Now, when I’m not working at my machine, I can admire its spiffy new cover while I reminisce about how much I learned in that workshop with Nancy Crow, and dream about how I hope to be able to study with her again some day.
Oh . . . here’s the back view:
Cute, huh? I wonder what I can do with the rest of that quilt top?
