Patchwork slipcase cover for scrapbook and patchwork needecase

During long winter evenings I always have several different projects on the go. I now find I can’t embroider white on white under artificial light and have recently given up using a lamp that simulates daylight as it stops me from going to sleep, however tired I may be. (Immediately I stopped using it, I slept more – nuff said as Nigel Molesworth might say.) 

Patchwork slipcase for scrapbook and needle case

Patchwork projects are ideal for these dark nights as I sit cosy on the sofa beside a comforting if not really necessary log fire. As well as piles of diamond patches (for the ongoing altar frontal project), I also have had stacks of little squares. Sewing the little squares  progressed rapidly and last week I decided it would be good to make them up into a cover for another cuttings scrap book. For the scrapbook I lined the patchwork with calico and quilted the two layers together. For the little needle case I sandwiched the patchwork and lining with wadding and added a couple of leaves of woollen felt, Now I can leave the formerly tatty scrapbook around without it looking an eyesore and the needle case is  usefully visible  when I’m desperate to find a needle, as I so often am. Now, as the daylight of Thursday morning beckons I can look forward to going back to sewing  a whitework monogram.

Patchwork needle case