The best thing about FaceBook is the ability to keep up with folks you don't see often. For example, my youngest nephew Drew just started college this past week. One of his first FB posts was...
There were a lot of smart aleck comments made by friends and family; however.... someone had an idea....
...and sent off a care package full of snacks and a special peanut butter & jelly knife! Here's what Drew posted on FB earlier this evening...
Yup, FB is fun....
A friend at work brought a quilted "something" a relative had made to show me and I was intrigued! Can you guess what it is?
Yes! It is a casserole carrier! How does it work, you ask? First, you put the casserole in the center of the carrier, underneath the diagonal strap.
Next, you thread the strap through the two D-rings, forming a loop.
Then, you pull on the loop part of the strap.... et voila!
You have your casserole ready to carry... and with only one hand! Cool! When my daughter saw it, her eyes got big and I could almost see the light bulb go on over her head.... so I offered to make her one. (She attends a lot of covered dish dinners since her husband is a minister at two small churches.)
Committed to using only stash, I rummaged around and selected two fabrics. I pulled batting scraps from the bin and pieced enough to make two layers of batting in the sandwich.
I decided to do a bit more quilting than the original because it used poly batting.
I'm making the casserole carrier a big differently than the original and I need to pick up some D-rings to be able to finish it up. I'll report back on my success (or lack thereof) when I'm finished.
Lesson 9 (link) was posted this past Thursday but it was the weekend before I could get to it.
I've given up on the mock up and have the blocks on my design wall now... helps more with looking at what colors need to go where...
It's a good thing that the rest of the blocks have small pieces because even though I'm cutting carefully and saving every scrap, the contents of the FQ basket holding the batiks are getting smaller every week!
