Shaking My Pom-Poms, Part 1

Shaking My Pom-Pom Scarf

in the spring breeze!

 This is sew much more than a pretty scarf!

This scarf has pockets!

A pom-pom tool holder!

A mini-pincushion!

 This is my new 

Sewing Chatelaine Scarf

and Pom-Pom Pin Cushion Cone!

  I was the very lucky winner of this lovely squishy  from Sophie Junction  in her
 In Your Words Blog Hop Giveaway.
I have been fondling these pretties from time to time
and musing on the perfect project.  Thank you, Sophie!

When the Shake Your Pom-Poms Blog Hop was announced and I started thinking of what I wanted to make for this blog hop an image with her striking star flower block popped into mind.  Something I have never made before. 
I love to try new ideas.  

I gathered materials and ideas to think for awhile.   It was a nice sunny day in my sewing room  

Butterfly helped  

Katniss helped by snoozing all day in the sunny basket on the cutting table. Her plan was to keep Butterfly from grabbing the basket. Butterfly did not care much...  

Butterfly was busy helping me with the thinking process.  

It took a lot of thought ... 

so she decided to sleep on it.

this took some time

Finally the sun moved off the cutting table and Butterfly

moved to my thinking chair to do some more thinking.
Butterfly thinks better when she is hanging upside down off the chair
... and has been well petted.

My plan was ready for the stitching stage.

I had found a beautiful mottled blue/purple satin at JoAnn's

and bought a skinny 1/4 yard



 I wanted to the focus Sophie's beautiful star flower block.
The pattern for this Daisy Star block is a freebie on Sophie's site...
Sophie Junction

I also wanted to use some of the pretty squares she shared and I wanted to add purple from my stash and I had been thinking of making a crazy quilt type scarf with the satin for the backing.

Butterfly and I had decided that we did not want to cut the squares up too much and to just enjoy the pretty fabric and add the print border.

 I started sewing ... in a hard molded folding chair
so that Butterfly might continue helping in my sewing chair.

I sewed the squares to a long piece strip of muslin

as if making a string quilt

I pressed each square as I sewed

added border fabric strips to the sides 

I hand stitched echoes in four perle cotton colors around the star flower.

This is not part of the quilting as it only goes through the muslin.
I have not added the backing yet.



close up of hand stitching

I machine stitched some decorative stitches.

Added a small pocket with decorative machine stitches and trim.

I found that I could tuck my favorite embroidery scissors through a pom-pom and use the cover to hold it in place.

Then I added the satin backing by pinning and sewing together
pillowcase style on three sides with fronts together
and then turned inside out to finish the bottom edge by machine ...

By now Katniss was awake to inspect my work and offer her help
by trying to catch and eat these butterfly pins
 as she seems to think they are bugs.
I have to watch Katniss very closely in my sewing room.

 On the fourth open side I tuned under the hems and added a strip of the pom-pom trim and used the same decorative machine stitch
that I used on the small pocket through all layers to close the seam.

The star flower block is actually a large pocket!

Close up of my finished sewing chatelaine.

I added a small purchase pin cushion I had that was a perfect addition.
The roomy large pocket is very useful for putting those little balls of perle cotton that Katniss likes to chase and other hand sewing  items.

The small pocket holds several of my tools and keeps them handy and I can actually walk into the other room and take the pins and needles with me so I do not have to worry about Katniss getting into them if they are left in the open if I want to make a cup of tea
or to take my hand sewing to a comfy chair in another room.
I like!

Katniss says,

Time for our giveaway!

[This Giveaway is now Closed]

15 charms - 6" squares

Some of these are left from Sophie's giveaway.
Some I added some from my stash.

2 chances to win:

1st:  Leave a comment on this post

2nd:  Leave a comment on the NEXT post
"Shaking My Pom-Poms, Part 2"
... click HERE

I also made this

 Ice Cream Cone Pom-Pom Pincushion

For pictures and how-to for this pincushion, click on this link
 Shaking My Pom-Poms, Part 2
to open another post.

ONE random winner will be drawn
from all the comments on these two posts.

Winner will be contacted by email
so must have an email address for me to reply.

This giveaway is open to anyone anywhere in the world.

I use google translator to read and reply to comments in other languages.

This giveayway closes at Midnight Eastern DST on April 30th.

Winner will be announced and emailed on May 1st.

Good luck wishes!

Please visit my quilty friends on all of today's blogs

to see what's shaking:

Friday, April 26th

April 26

Cherry Valley Designs

Life in the Scrapatch (You are here)

Felt free på Åsly

Love it Sew it

Patchouli Moon Studio

Dreaming In Patchwork

In The Boon Docks

Jane’s Quilting

Thanks to
Madame Samm @ Sew We Quilt

and to

Thearica @ Pigtails and Quilts

for cheering this wonderful blog hop!

Butterfly says,

"Thanks for stopping by visiting in our Scrapatch Sewing Room!"

:)