Chabby Chic meet Modern Line

I made another bag!

You make ONE....

 and then....

YOU JUST CAN'T stop!!!

Kind of like potato chips.

;)

I began with the florals.

When I added the BRIGHT lines

It sort of

UPDATED the whole thing!

It's nice and roomy.

Even has a special PLACE for your water bottle.

 

Bag making is just plain FUN!!!

I never use a pattern.

I always let the FABRICs dictate the SIZE.

;)

 

I always enjoy

USING the FUN pieces of fabrics

that fill my shelves!!!

 

I made a teeny TINY dent

making this bag!

Emphasis on TINY.

LOL!!! 

 

Just listed this one in my little shop.

 

 

 

 

A quilt for Education

I finished my African quilt last night!

I love ALL the color in this one!

That SKY blue really sings....doesn't it?

Believe it or not...

I had that tie dyed border IN MY STASH!!'

You COULD say I have a BIG stash.

:/

Since there wasn't QUITE enough of that pretty blue backing...

I was able to make a BLOCK and piece it in.

Ooooh!....I LOVE it!

This quilt is ALL READY

to be used for a fundraiser.

(Not sure YET how I'm going to go about it.....

But I'm READY!)

Any ideas about ONLINE fundraising

would be appreciated.

 *****

 Thanks to Elaine....

  I Found a fundraising site!

here it is.

This is Erika.

My house guest this week.

;)

She's going back to Africa to open a school

for the local children there.

I'm excited to be able to help!

She helped ME by making dinner one night!!!!

The LEAST I can do is make a quilt.

RIGHT???

Lost

I'm still stitching away on my little take along project...

but I had a VERY sad event.

 

I LOST one of the finished blocks!!!

There WERE 5 pre-printed squares..

and now there are only FOUR.

:(

The one I lost was FINISHED too!!!

Ugh.

 

I was so sad when I realized one was missing.

I REALLY think it dropped out

or was left on the chair in the waiting room

at my daughter's eye doctor.

I've called TWICE

to see if it turned up.

NO LUCK.

Would someone TAKE it??

 

I'm still hopeful it will show up!

IF it doesn't..

I have a PLAN!

:)

IF I can find some white cotton that matches...

I'll be drawing the pattern with washable blue marker

using a finished one as my GUIDE.

 

LOTS of work...

but WORTH it!

 

I already have the quilt worked out...

sort of...

in my HEAD!

AND.....

I need FIVE embroidered squares.

NO LESS.

:)

An African Adventure

I tackled another RESCUE effort this week!!!

;)

(rescuing orphan blocks

from a lonely life in the drawer)

I started with this VERY large orphan "block"

measuring 31"x32".

Much bigger than an orphan block...

but NOT big enough for a quilt.

This was sent to me along with

other various orphans.

 

What WAS I going to do with this big

BEGINNING of a quilt?

I found this mustard colored sheet at the thrift store.

I added squares from my square drawers...

different sizes...

Pieced into the mustard sheet.

 

I like the different sized squares....

AND...

I LOVE the FUN of finding

those colors ALREADY cut and READY to go

in my drawers!!!!

 

There were also some other orphans

that got to be included into this quilt!

 

I didn't know what to do with those

TWO black lines in the middle there.

I'm adding some applique squares to break it up a bit.

;)

 

I might be done with this quilt top..

OR...

I might add another border!

 

Today, though, I need to get ready for house guests!!!

 

They'll be IN MY SEWING room!

Eeek!!!!

One guest is a missionary from Africa.

This quilt kind of "goes" with the THEME of my week!

Isn't that FUN???

 

Have a GREAT weekend!

 

The END is in sight!

My Thursday mornings are paying off!!!

I've spent the last few Thursday mornings working on this

LONG, SLOW project!

It helps to have friends sitting around the table

working on their OWN things

as I stitch!

 

This one is for my daughter and son-in-law.

A wedding gift.

;)

The wedding is only a memory now.

 

SEVEN more petals to GO!!!

 

Maybe I'll even get it DONE

before NEXT Thursday morning!!!

THAT would be SOMETHING!

 

I can see the end of THIS applique project!

 

Then....

it needs to be quilted.

:/

Hope THAT doesn't take me 2 years!!!!

Why I create

I made a bag.

I made a bag because....

someone gave me some old buttons.

 

and...

I had to use ONE!!!

I made a bag.

I made a bag because....

I have so many household things to do!!!

 

 

Oh...the Silly reasons I create.

How about you?

the BEST thing

If you were to try and GUESS what I love most

about this quilt...

I think you'd have a hard time

choosing the ONE thing

that REALLY makes it for ME!

 

There are so many things to like!

There are some CUTE little owls...

but that's not it!

I LOVE this color...

but that's not IT either.

;)

You may think it's the scrappy blocks.

YES!! I DO love scrappy blocks...

but something else TRUMPED them this time.

The binding??

NO.

I struggled finding a suitable binding...

so I'm NOT friends with this binding.....YET!

LOL!

The pieced backing???

You're SOooo close!

 

I AM happy I used up almost ALL of the

fabric that came in this fat eighth bundle...

partly because I added those blocks

on the back!

THIS IS IT!!!

 

A piece of my vintage fabric!

I ADORE this fabric.

This quilt incorporates the VERY FIRST cut!!!

AND.....

There's more of this wonderful fabric to use

on my next project!!!!...

THANK GOODNESS!

A scrappy quilt to love!