Snow and Ice and My PUFF Quilt!

Me again! Today, Church was cancelled due to the icy roads! Wow. My husband couldn't believe it!!!

Since I had a bunch of extra time today, I decided to start working on my "Puff" quilt that I began about a year ago!!!! I've been wanting to work on it, but just haven't. But today, so far, I've sewn about 5 puffs! : ) I haven't filled them yet, because I figure -- the hard thing is sewing them together. Filling them will be a breeze!

I will be very excited to finish the quilt one of these days! I believe it will take about 100 puffs to make the quilt, since the puffs are small, compared to regular quilt squares.

Also -- I'm making a puff quilt, because a long time ago, at my Grandmother's house, she had a puff quilt, and therefore, since it was just called a quilt (not a puff quilt), I thought that ALL quilts looked like that! So when I saw flat quilts, I didn't like the way they looked AT ALL, and I didn't consider them quilts, because they had NO fluff to them! No height!! They don't even LOOK like they'll be warm!!!

So -- I'm making my very first puff quilt. I found out how to make the puff's from a book at the library. The bottom square is 4 inches, and the top is 6 inches. When you sew the two together, turn the two pieces to where they're facing each other, then match one corner together, put it under the foot of the sewing machine and put the foot down. Then on that bottom of that same side, match the two corners, hold it with your left hand, and then in the middle, make two folds that are facing each other. That will use up the extra 2 inches of material. Then sew all the way down, stop, make sure the needle is in the material at the corner, lift up the foot, turn the material, and then do the same thing for the next two sides. Leave the fourth side open for when you want to stuff it. (You could sew almost all the way to the end on the fourth side, leaving a small opening for when you want to stuff it, but I tend to forget I'm on the fourth side, and end up sewing the fourth side shut! So I just sew the 3 sides and worry about the fourth side later!) Then, before you stuff the puffs, on the side that was left open, sew it almost to the end, leaving an opening to be able to stuff stuffing in there. Turn the puff inside out, stuff it with stuffing, and then hand-sew the opening shut. Vwala! You have a puff! And when you've got all of your puffs made, then just hand-sew them together, side to side.

Don't be in a rush to make the quilt. It will take a LONG time to finish! Unless you're a master sewer, in which case, you shouldn't even be reading this!!!! : )

I'll let you know when I finish my quilt! : ) Hopefully by the end of next year???