Category Archives: bags Our guild is doing a swap today–everyone participating is bringing a sunglasses pouch. As usual, I had about 800 ideas and then when I actually made the item I dumped all of my ideas and made this instead. 🙂 I love it and want to make another one for me (and I’m planning on sticking […]  When I proudly showed Nic my birdie sling, his only comment was “that’s really big,” so I changed my mother’s day gift plan for my momma from the birdie sling to the smaller Portabello Pixie gathered market bag pattern that I unearthed last month. After making it, though, in the future I’d construct it more […]  It was a market bag weekend (using jane market bag pattern)–I made my library bag as well as two others. I find that whenever I repeat a pattern, I end up making more mistakes than the first time. With the floral bag and my library bag I forgot to do the top stitching down the […]  I love to sew. I’m so grateful to modern quilting for making it more accessible, more fun, more relaxed. I love that we have so much choice–machine or hand, complex or simple, scrappy or coordinated, solids or prints, modern or reproduction, bright or subdued. I love that for every taste there is a pattern. For […]  One of my favorite fabric lines this year is Spring Street. It makes me happy and fits the season so well. I did a pattern swap with a friend from my guild, and I got to make some Birdie Sling bags from her pattern and she got to play with my Practical Bag pattern! With […]  I made a bunch of these cash and carry wallets before Christmas and found them to be a fun quick project. I think my confidence level was too high because when I made this one for our trip (I don’t want to carry around my big heavy normal wallet all day), it turned out to […] |
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