selina quilts: February 2024

Welcome to my stop on the Love Train. When I first saw the title to this hop I went out and hunted down a couple of sweet Moose ideas. I found some machine embroidery patterns and some machine applique ideas. Great, since I had good ideas I could just add the Hop to my to do list.

A couple of weeks ago I was prepping to go to a meeting and went on a hunt for a pouch to carry some stuff. You know, search through the hundreds of pouches we have all made over the years to test ideas and fabric and construction.

This is what I found. Can you see that great fabric. Cute little moose heads. Now my brain starts asking questions like wouldn't this fabric be better for the hop than the other stuff i hadn't started yet, why did you have that fabric and is any of that left in your stash somewhere, where would you have stuck it, reds, browns, Christmas, novelty.

Well the answer to some of those questions can be seen in the following pictures. like this one. I found just over a yard in the novelty drawer.

One of my issues was to find things to make with it without cutting the fabric into tiny pieces and obliterating the Moose.

This past couple of years I have been making the kind of gifts that you take to a friends for dinner or to greet a new neighbor or go to someone's new home, So that's where I started.

I was given a drying mat for a gift a couple of years ago and love it, It's a piece of Bosal between 2 pieces of cotton and quilted. I use mine daily and it machine washes beautifully.

When I started to make them as gifts I generally add a dish towel trimmed with the same fabric.

Depending on the occasion I will add a couple of bowl cozies, some times with matching bowls and sometimes not.

My latest addition to this goodie basket are jar openers, fabric backed with the non slip rubber stuff used in cabinets.

They work really well at grabbing the lid as well as holding the bottle or can itself.

They are amazing and can be made in any size and shape. I had a couple of scraps left from the previous items and that' s pretty much what determined the size of this pair

The last of the pieces I pulled together for this hop is this gift card. I took the Hop logo and removed the dates in Cricut Design Space. Printed it and stuck it to a base card. I will eventually type up care and use instructions for inside the card for the items in the basket.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit here and have picked up some ideas for very simple but very useful items for your home or as a gift.

I hope you have been following along on the hop so far and that you will be continuing to the last of our talented group. For your convenience I have included the entire list below,

Monday February 19

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Tuesday February 20

A Quiltery-For the Love of Geese