Here is your BURST of color for the day…
Clothesline Rope Fabric Wrapped Bowls
I have been creating these bowls for a few weeks…
If you are on my list, you will get one during the holidays…
I found this ruler at the thrift store…
it works great for cutting the fabric strips.
Fabric strips ready to wrap around rope…
I bag them up by color and keep them in a wash tub.
Here is the fabric wrapped rope laying on the floor…
Coil up the end…
Variegated thread works great on these bowls…
Using a wide zig zag stitch…..
stitch the coils together in a circle.
Continue to stitch until the base is the size you desire…
6 or 7 inches in diameter is the base size of this bowl…
Tip the base on the side...
and continue to stitch the sides of the bowl…
A couple of feet from the end…
I stop and remove the bowl from the machine.
I create a medallion from the opposite end of the cord
and stitch it together in a circle.
Then I put the bowl back on the machine
and complete the stitching.
Here is the completed Fabric Wrapped Bowl
This is 50 feet of rope.
I can wrap the rope and stitch the bowl in 90 minutes….or so.
Go get some clothesline rope…
You know you want to make one!
We just returned from a trip to California:
Paul Harvey Quilt at Mount Shasta
Paul Harvey is my personal lap quilt. It keeps me warm when I am on the couch at home, and it also travels with me everywhere I go. I sleep with this quilt when we are in motel rooms while traveling from state to state. It just makes an overnight stay a bit more like home, and I sleep better cuddling up with it.
Yes, I named my quilt "Paul Harvey" after the radio announcer
that tells us "The Rest of the Story."
This quilt started out as a class kit in Idaho. When I returned home to Oregon I realized all of the fabrics were not in the kit. I waited months for the quilt shop to send the missing fabrics......but it never happened.
I eventually found fabrics on my own and incorporated them into the quilt top.
The border fabric came from Canada.
This quilt took so much longer to complete than I had anticipated. After awhile I began to feel like it would never be done........when would I see....."The Rest of the Story."
I eventually began to refer to this quilt in progress as my Paul Harvey quilt.
May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
