I have been slowly working on my EPP projects. I try not to work on them when I can be at my machines, but there are days I would rather do hand sewing than machine sewing. Here are two more blocks.
I saw a blog post from Tales of Cloth for a needle book, using EPP to make it. The pattern was free, and it uses Houses, instead of Hexies. I pulled out my 30's repo scraps and made the pluses. This was a quick project, although doing the stitching for the pluses did take a few days, since I didn't work on it for more than an hour or so each day. Once the pluses were sewn together it was a quick sew to make the needle book. I used my Sashiko to quilt the fabric to the batting.
I would love to make more of these needlebooks, but how many does one person need? Since I don't have a lot of friends that do hand sewing, and need a place to store their needles, I don't have much of a need to make a bunch of these. However, I have been wanting to make a cover for the Composition book I keep with me and I think doing some EPP to create the fabric for it would be another fun and relatively quick project. (At least it would be faster than making an entire quilt). So I need to decide on fabrics and colors and start planning that project. I also thought it would be fun to make some EPP for those thread catchers I made awhile back. Those are small and wouldn't take much, but would be cuter than using just a single piece of fabric. I have plenty of scrap batting, and I have found those thread catchers are great at keeping threads off the table and floor. If I use 1/4" hexies for the thread catchers, I could use the two "flowers" I made when I wanted to try sewing 1/4" hexies. Just need to find a fabric to go around the flowers as background. Time to go look through my fabric for a suitable color.
Until next time...Happy Crafting!!!