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blog milestones, draught excluders, English paper piecing, hand-piecing, handwork, sewjournal blog, tessellated draught stopper
Draught stopper finished
Tessellated draught stopper
After a lot of work and sore hands – I never realised how much stress English Paper Piecing places on your hands – the tessellated draught stopper is finished. This one is for the front door and so is bigger and fatter than the one I am planning for the door that leads to the garage.
I stuffed it full of off-cuts of batting – a variety of wool and silk, 100% polyester, cotton and polyester ,and bamboo. I always knew that I would find a use for them.
If I decide to make another tessellated one for the door to the garage, which is slightly narrower and inset rather than flush with its surrounds, I think I would only use 3 pieces around instead of 4 and I would make it 3 or 4 pieces shorter.
Anyway here is the finished product:
Draught stopper in use
3 blog milestones
Today is 3 months to the day since I started this blog; yesterday was my 100th post; and today the visitor count just clicked over 15,000! Thank you all for visiting and for leaving your comments. I do read them all and often reply to them if they need it. Please let me know if there is anything you would particularly like to see on the blog and I’ll see what I can do.
Congratulations on the perseverance and work you did to reach these milestones!
Thanks Marcia. I have really enjoyed it. It has exposed me to a large number of other blogs that I have found fascinating and put me in touch with people who share my love of making something beautiful.
Munaiba
Love the draft stopper, it looks fantastic. I seem to recall my Nana had made several using corduroy and they were filled with sand, they had ears too I think????
I guess filling them with sand would make them heavy and ensure they stayed in place. Good idea!
Munaiba
Happy Blogiversary 🙂
SheilaC
Thanks Sheila
Good for you! I’ve always been going to make a few myself. Winters here are quite hard and often drafty! lol But I never seem to get around to it… 🙂
Congratulations on all the milestones. The draft stopper looks wonderful, those batting off cuts are so handy, I don’t throw them out either.
I love your cold weather door stopper. So cheerful and bright. Just what you need. Congrats to on the huge amount of visitors on your blog. It’s a great blog.
Another thing that works good for stuffing cold weather stoppers is dry beans or rice. We can buy rice very reasonable in huge bags at Sam’s Club.