Valentine Love and Weekend sewing

Yes, yes I know it's not Valentine's Day anymore But I have a good excuse for not posting my Valentine stuff until now. I was at a Sewing retreat most of the weekend. See, a good reason. ;)
I made my two crazy things each a pillowcase for Valentine's day. Which I had done early last week. Plus, that gets two things off of my 1QFAL. Ya!!

I used a different minky fabric for the edge to keep them separate but the same. The oldest one randomly picked the navy blue one and the youngest got a bright pink one.

I used the burrito method to make the pillowcases with enclosed seams. Search pillowcase burrito method and tons of tutorials will pop up. Choose your favorite and follow along. I think I want a pillowcase with the minky edging so I can rub it will my fingers as I fall asleep. ;) Hmmm, maybe I can find some sewing themed fabric next time I am at a fabric store.
They are happy with them. Plus, the main fabric is Frozen, so I could do no wrong their. They already have plans to go see the short Frozen movie that will be playing before the Cinderella movie. I don't think they understand its only going to be several minutes long, not the whole movie.

I digress, back to Valentine sewing. At my stitchers club it was this cute project, a Valentine appliqué hot pad.

 

Appliqué is something many people in my group, including ME, wanted to learn more about. This cute project was a perfect was to learn a few basics of appliqué and have a finished project at the end of the evening.

Then on Friday evening after supper, I headed of to sewing retreat. This retreat is Sleep in Your Own Bed Retreat. I worked on my Irish Chain Quilt-a-long assignment. I'll post about that later. Saturday I headed back in the morning for a full day of sewing. Yippee!! Thank goodness my husband and I had celebrated Valentine's Day last weekend when we went to a comedy show and supper, without the crazy things! I finished my weekly assignment and started on finishing two t-shirt quilt tops. I finished the one and the other one is 90% done. I was glad I had planned to stay for the day. At one point there was white out conditions and 40 mph winds. Plus dropping temperatures to the single digits. Brrrr!! Hope your weekend was filled with Love and Sewing!!

Thanks for reading!
Hollie
Just a Mom who Sews