The Great Granny Bag: I've been dying to make a bag with bamboo handles for a long time. I don't really care if they aren't trendy or in style, I just kinda like them and I wanted one. I love the light feel of the bamboo rings in my hands, I love that handmade, "basket-ish" look, and best of all, I love how...
I've just listed a few items on my website, yay! I love new stuff. After a few requests, the Emmaline Bag Hardware Kit is now available in Antique Brass. It's going to make some very classy looking Emmaline Bags. Also, I've added 2 more sizes of nickel swivel snap hooks, they will make some awesome removable straps for that handbag, duffle bag, or...
Why a Minecraft Block? On a recent trip to one of my area quilt shops, I gave my seven year old son the usual pre-shopping talk about him not touching anything and me promising to be quick. Of course, neither happened. I took much too long and Jace touched a lot of things. He was especially taken with the fat quarters and was...
As some of you know I made a Lego sewing machine last week, you can read the post and see where I go the idea from HERE. Since then, it's just been getting shuffled around on my sewing table from here to there and back to here again. It's been lost in scraps and found again, dusted and repositioned. Still admired, but not...
My WIP Wednesday, proved to be a work in progress of it's own. I've been working on this all day, and just getting it in under the wire. A) Finished this week: Um.... almost but not quite anything! B) Working on this week: 1) Hex on the Beach, a hexagon quilt made from Tula Pink's Saltwater fabrics, as mentioned on the blog yesterday. ...
Amongst all the handbag pattern making this year, I'm taking on some seriously fun and challenging quilting projects. I've been away from quilting for awhile and it feels so good to get back into it. I've already shown you the two "Block of the Month(s)" I'm doing this year, but I also indulged in a precut hexagon kit out of my most favorite...
I have always wanted to participate in some Block of the Month clubs hosted by quilting blogs, but have always remembered about mid year. Too late! This time January came around and I didn't waste any time signing up. I'm doing two this year and I'll have two great quilts to show for it around December. The first BOM is hosted by Elizabeth...
It's been a busy few days of WAITING for my fabric orders to arrive so I can get my handbag patterns, January Block of the Month(s), and other little mini projects started. I'm glad to be finally at it though, most of my fabric arrived in the mail this week. Yay! What I'm working on: I filled some time waiting with Lego, after...
A of couple months ago (October 2012), I was eager to try out my new sewing machine, a Pfaff Ambition 1.5, but I didn't have any fabric or projects available. My meager stash was still - stashed - away in boxes from my move home to Canada and wasn't to be opened until moving into our new house in November. My good friend,...
A long time ago, as a new mother of 2 daughters, I had daydreams and wondrous plans of sitting down to the sewing machine to teach my Barbie playing, dolly dressing, girls to sew baby blankets, clothes and the odd pretty pencil pouch. While my oldest girl dabbled only a tiny bit in sewing, my youngest daughter - who just turned 20 -...
