Sewing: Week Twenty Three Chair Throw

Chair throw for week twenty three. So, this is embarrassing – I missed week 23. I know, I should know how to count, right? Right. In all the excitement I miss counted, so here we are making up for it! This is week 23 of 52 weeks of sewing and next week will be week 26. A bit all over the place, but that’s okay because it happens every so often.

Chair Throw

Okay, the chair throw. How did this come to be?

Well, in the winter of 2013 I was attempting to make a quilt. Sort of a modern one where all the lines are just free-styled across the fabric. The first 4 photos are from that project. It took mea bout 10 hours to cut the fabric, lay it out and pin it all. It measured 100 x 120. Huge, I know.

So many pins!

Okay, so how did we get from there to this chair throw? Well, I wasn’t ever going to finish the quilt. It was too big and my machine isn’t fit to have all that fabric (50 inches or so) bunched up on the side while I try and ‘quilt’ a seam down the middle of the blanket. Ah, nope – not going to happen.

So, the main lesson of this post is to know when you’ve come to an end. That’s where I was with the quilt. The second lesson is, don’t discard fabric – it can be repurposed. It took me 2 hours to undo all the pins and take out the 15 seams I had already made.

Then, I had to pull out all the threads – another hour.

As a result, this chair throw, which measures 60×80, took almost 15 hours when it could have taken 1 hour. Life is funny sometimes, right?

Just like any blanket, serge with right sides together and leave a small space to turn the blanket right side out. Then, stitch up that seam.