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Our favorite color is Moda! What’s yours? Moda Fabrics released a colorful panel and coordinating yardage with a gorgeous sampling of each Bella Solid as well as coordinating yardage. To make the most of this unique new collection, we’ve created several new projects and released a new FREE quilt pattern, Spectrum!

You’ll love the variety of DIY projects you can sew to take advantage of Moda’s full-color range. We had to sew them all because picking our favorite project is like picking our favorite color – impossible! In fact, did you know Moda has 324 different colors ...

It's the 1st of January here in New Zealand, so Happy New Year everyone. 

I certainly hope that 2021 is going to be kinder to us all than 2020 was! We won't forget that year in a hurry.  

Here's my first finish of 2021.  Can you guess what it's for?

It's a pouch for my son's new Xbox Series S.  The Series S is a very small, portable Xbox, so my son requested a pouch for it.

He chose the fabrics from my stash - black and white for the outside, a tone on tone ...

 A look back at 2020...

January 2020

I needed a fresh start for 2020.

My sewing area went from this:

to this:

February 2020

Calving Season begins @ the Kessi Ranch

Playing with Rayon Threads

March 2020

The Turkey Vultures are BACK

Calving Season....continues:

Fertilizing the Hay Fields

Playing with Improv

April 2020

Improv Technique 2

Improv Technique 3

Improv Technique 4

Improv Technique 5

Improv Technique 6

Improv Technique 7

Improv Technique 8

Sunflower Quilt Finished

May 2020

Zipper Pulls

June 2020

Improv Quilt Top

Messy Painted Canvas

July 2020

Tassel Necklaces

Haying Season ...

Making a few more zip cases

for holiday gift giving...

at Joann Fabrics

will stand up...

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

to decorate the bags...

Stuff them full of goodies

and give them to friends and family.

Happy Holidays!

CLICK HERE for the Zip Case Tutorial

Note: Originally published on 21 September 2017 and updated on 30 October 2020. See the step-by-step video tutorial included at the end of the post, too. Hello! Today I’m excited to share with you a new bag tutorial for the cutest little patchwork bags ever made with Moda Candy squares (or 2 1/2″ x 2 […]

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I call these...

Peek-a-Boo Bags

Island Batik and ByAnnie set me up for success by providing everything I needed to make not just one pocket packer, but I was able to make all 4 of the Pocket Packer styles from one ...

I have several rolls of clear vinyl...

it is time to set it FREE 

I will be back in ...

Since I had enough notions -- with the exception of zippers -- to make a few more Open Wide bags, I bought a few more zippers and got to work.

The first one that I made is the same three fabrics as the large pouch that I made in the original set, just in the smallest size. I used all of the same colors of thread for quilting and construction so that these are a matching set. 

For the second, I made a medium sized bag using only two different fabrics instead of three. I used the same fabric for both the ...

It was a great pleasure to see that there was the making of a bag on this semester’s schedule. We love a lot the bag making in Greece. And I love especially Annie’s Unrein patterns. When I was asked about the pattern I wanted to make, I chose this bag that actually is not a bag, but a whole suitcase. I had made this bag in the past several times, but I wanted to see the most of the materials that Annie has in her shop. Therefore I asked for this pattern, that proved to be very wise ...

It was a great pleasure to see that there was the making of a bag on this semester’s schedule. We love a lot the bag making in Greece. And I love especially Annie’s Unrein patterns. When I was asked about the pattern I wanted to make, I chose this bag that actually is not a bag, but a whole suitcase. I had made this bag in the past several times, but I wanted to see the most of the materials that Annie has in her shop. Therefore I asked for this pattern, that proved to be very wise ...

 Today is my day to share for the It's In The Bag Blog Hop, sponsored by Island Batik and By Annie!

The collection I got to use for my project is the new Floralicious collection!

If you remember back to my unboxing post from this summer, I got all of the pieces and parts to make a set of the Open Wide 2.0 bags from By Annie!

Hello and happy Friday, friends. Today I’m sharing a tutorial for one of my favorite gift projects, a Quilted Patchwork Bag. I first shared a pictorial tutorial for this project several years ago, but realized it might be better shared through a video. Quilted Patchwork Bag This quilted patchwork bag is a fun project. It’s […]

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It is a common truth that we live in interesting and challenging times.
My generation will have full bags of memories to share.

We are about to reach  the middle of this turbulent full of fear and unknown things 2020, without realizing it. The Pandemic brutally stopped the whirlwind of life in which we all were carried. The two months of isolation meant to prevent the spread of the SARS virus - Covid 19, reminded us, among other profound things, that we are the sons and daughters of planet Earth, not its masters. The geographer in me keeps telling me this ...

A couple of weeks ago I watched Tula Pink's video launching her new black and white fabric line - Linework (It won't be available for months yet, so don't panic).  Towards the end of the video Tula showed two Zip It Up! bags she had made.  I thought they looked amazing so I dashed off and ordered the pattern from the Ribbon Rose in Auckland.

Hello friends! Today I’m excited to share a fun patchwork pouch in our Summer Sweet fabrics. The pattern is from a delightful new book, Perfectly Pretty Patchwork by Kristyne Czepuryk of Pretty By Hand. I’ve been following Kristyne for years through her blog and Instagram accounts and have always loved her beautiful projects with an […]

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