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Sunday 9 June 2013

Apples & Peppers

My first pepper from Patchwork Please! was met with shouts of 'nice apple' from the household hecklers.  Hmm...that gave me an idea!

So here is my pepper...


I am going to take this one to work to help  make the hours pass more prettily; I am only in for 3 mornings this week, thanks to a timely Inset Day, but anything to make that time more in-keeping with what I would rather be doing, can't be a bad thing.


The idea?  Teacher gifts, actually Teaching Assistant gifts, and to make them a bit more 'teacher-ish', I rounded them out to really look like apples!


I just had to use the Dick & Jane print on the backs !

This is such a super easy, quick and effective little make.  I used freezer paper for my templates, and a frixion pen to draw round them.  I used ribbon instead of felt for the stalks, and felt for the apple leaves.

After making the pepper, I decided to put a little woven interfacing on the inside of the top piece as I could still feel the turning slit, and with the light fabric I thought, and it does, give it a better finish.   2 layers of fusible fleece instead of batting, cut a little smaller than the template to reduce the bulk, and Bob's your uncle.

The best bit, Mary mentioned using pinking shears in passing yesterday, and bugger me, if that wasn't the most obvious, useful and amazing tip for the curves EVER!  In fact, I used them for trimming the whole things.  Honestly, I would never have thought of that!!  Thanks M xxx

Linking up with awesome Lindsey and Debbie for week 1 of the Zakka 2.0 Sew Along.

Well apart from tripping out the mains power 3 or 4 times with the iron; even after changing the fuse, I had to resort to my old one, which is half the weight and probably just as rubbish good; I made Terri's second Brit Bee block...


It's a Twelve Pointed Star from Fat Quarterly's Shape Workshop book, and I think it looks lovely in T's low volume prints against the Kona Wisteria.

I might get my final June Bee block done this evening, or I might just stitch down the binding on the mini I finished today for the Modern Mini Challenge.

Decisions, decisions xxx

34 comments:

  1. Aren't you the clever one making apples out of peppers? Very cute

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  2. Awesome! I might steal that for the kids teachers! I made a pepper today and used pinking shears - much easier. The block is very pretty!

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  3. A Granny Smith apple - fabulous! And so yummy looking!

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  4. Lovely apples and great ideas, but i did have a fnar fnar moment when I saw Oh, Dick! (Must stop spending time with pre teen boys!)

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  5. Those peppersImeanAPPLES are bloody brilliant. Chook's got a male teacher this year. Too girly? Mebbes. So I could make one, decide it's not for him and keep it! Genius...

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  6. A+ and a gold star for your apples! :o)

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  7. Your apples are perfect. They remind me of rosy apple sweets - I wonder if they still make them?

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  8. An apple for the teacher- perfect! ;-))

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  9. Lovely apples & peppers my dear! You beat me to it with the Shape workshop star! Jxo

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  10. Haha I always use pinking shears on curves! So much easier than cutting notches and easing them! Yours look much more like apples than mine did (and yours are supposed to. My girls were opting for the pencil case for teacher gifts but heck an apple would be so much quicker!

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  11. Turning the peppers into apples? Genius! I'm also stealing the pinking idea ;-)

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  12. Wow - clever revamp! I like the fabrics you chose.

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  13. Nice apples, and I love the Dick and Jane print - v apt! Really wish I worked in a primary!

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  14. Pinking shears for clipping curves! How am I so thick?! It's so obvious now you mention it!

    I love the peppers / apples - I wondered if they might come out a bit appley and was thinking of stretching them to make them more peppery but actually it makes more sense to squash them like you did and make them appley!

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  15. Apples and peppers........you are always so efficient and now you have teacher presents made too. I think that I'm organised but you leave me behind. Nice makes Mrs. Di x

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  16. Ha, well who says hecklers are useless! Loving the Dick & Jane backing :o)

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  17. The peppers are fab, and the apples are the perfect idea for teachers gifts.

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  18. Your pepper is lovely but aren't you clever with those apples! Really fun & cute!

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  19. love the apples, and thanks for passing on the pinking. tip, the 12 pointed star is great, fab fabric combo

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  20. They're great teachers gifts, miss smarty pants. Wonderful idea.

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  21. Such a cute idea for teachers gift. I have to remember that!

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  22. Clever idea, and a perfect use of Dick... and Jane of course :o)

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  23. I made the "peppers" too and thought they looked more like apples! Nice job with the "apples"!! Might try those too...

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  24. My son said mine looked like an apple, a strawberry and a pumpkin...but he was only teasing me. I also have an idea about how to make one of my false starts into an apple, but THESE...these are just fantastic! They are going on my Pinterest board right now. LOVE them so much!!!

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  25. I love your peppers and your apples!

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  26. Super cute apples, and a brilliant idea!

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  27. Excellent pressies for teechie types.

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  28. F A B .... I am hunting out my pinking shears as we speak....

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  29. I was thinking apples as well but yours are great with that added leaf.

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  30. So cute! And of course the Dick and Jane backing for the apples. Do little British children grow up with Dick and Jane like we did here in the U.S.?

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  31. Love your apples for the teachers!

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