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Reusable coffee cup sleeves

With the craft fair coming up at work, I am working on making coffee cup sleeves as one of the items for my booth/table. Here’s the work in progress.
WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

I had trouble coming up with the pattern and design. Here are two of the examples, I landed going with design 2 (the one with the grey background). For the back I have been using a complementary corduroy.
  This is how they look on a cup.

  
So far I have created several top designs, these are shown below.

Christmas themed cup sleeves

Coffee themed cup sleeves and coaster

  

Detailed patchwork cup sleeves

Top: Dark purple as the main color and the yellow and green used for contrast

Bottom: Orange red as the main color with pink and teal for contrast

Work in Progress: Orange and Grey Quilt

For this week’s work in progress, I wanted to share the quilt I am working on for our bedroom.

WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

In the previous post, I was able to share the first 5 squares of 64 for this quilt, which was only doable as I discovered Spoonflower (found fabric prints that fitted with what we were looking for). Here’s a reminder:

Now the update, here are four more – I decided to introduce the a glimpse of green in amongst the see of orange and grey.

Here are some individual shots, just in case :-):

  

First time buyer from Etsy: New Fabrics

I have been looking around for fun fabrics to use in future projects, and I found what I was looking for on Etsy.com. Here are some of my new fabrics:

Shop: skyerevefabrics
Fabric: Fly a kite
Designer: October Afternoon for Riley Blake

Shop: fabric shoppe
Fabric: The Simple Life Quilt
Designer: Tasha Noel for Riley Blake

Shop: poppyseedfabrics
Fabric: Polka dots purple panda
Designer: Cosmo Japanese Prints

Shop: sewfreshfabrics
Fabric A: Chairs and Ottomans in Meadow from Perfectly Perched
Designer:  Laurie Wisbrun

Fabric B:  Castle Towers in Purple from 1001 Peeps
Designer:  Lizzie House

Fabric C: Clothes Line on Cream from Lucy’s Crab Shack
Designer: Sweetwater for Moda

Fabric D: Put a lid on it in Charcoal from Retro Kitchen
Designer: Michael Miller Fabrics