More EPP

 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!!!