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Splatter Bags

Splatter Bags...

ready for gift giving !

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Zip Cases

Here where I live it's a beautiful autumn. With sunny days and golden colors in gardens, but also rainy days, when you better read, knit or sew something useful and beautiful. It was precisely these days of bad weather that were the ones in which I managed to sew a few bags. 

Thus, today I'm happy to share my brand new bag pattern, Tama Handbag!

I have been installing tote bag handles

with double cap rivets for a few years...

This is a commission...

Donkey Mare and Foal: 

Moonlake Fabrics sells these ...

The rain ran us out of plowing the hay fields

so I am taking the day to play ! 

This was great FUN !

I had an ...

Hello, friends, and happy Monday! Today I’m super happy to be sharing a Simple Sewing Kit Tutorial + Video for a project I finished recently. My new sewing kit (using Seashore Drive + Summer Sweet fabrics) is actually an updated and larger version of my friend Vanessa Goertzen’s Goody Goody Binding Kit from a few […]

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Is it any wonder that we associate the Summer months with feeling happy and carefree? 

Maintain this mood by sewing (or asking someone to sew for you) a light and cheerful bag in which to hold everything you need to feel good when you are not at home.

A bag without lining but with 2 zippered pockets? Yes, of course! Just click here if you want to receive the pdf pattern and to find out how is it possible to make in no time, all kind of beautiful and useful bags using one single pattern. 

 Only 4 more... I kind of ran out of steam really but wanted to make 4 more to gift to some of the lovely people my children had interacted with in various clubs over the years. 

So with that, here are my last 4 bags. 

2 for the dance teachers

2 for the Scouts leaders (one with upside down birdies...)

And 4 additional finish for July and off my Q3 FAL list. 

Linking to Needle and Thread Thursday, Brag about your Beauties, Off the wall Friday, Peacock Party,  Whoop Whoop Friday, Patchwork and Quilts

Celine

 And that will be 3 more, including 2 rather last minute. I needed one for Brown Owl, to be gifted with the open wide pouches so I finished that one with about one hour to spare.

And I also needed one for school last Friday as the presents have to be quarantined before being handed to the teachers this week. So that was another one to finish off.

This one was with 2 colours as I messed up the cutting of the wave!

And some more OPAM for July. Ideally I need to make 4 more bags but I must ...

 I'm back and doing well. I'm sorry I've been awol for the past 3 months. So much has change but all for the good. My treatments ended the end of April and I made it. I was so happy they were over and wanted to get back to a routine and start exercising that I over did it and had to slow down and allow my body some time to recover from all that I had been through the past 10 months.

Well that is what I did and this past month I have been able to ...

I’ve been having a lot of fun cutting Happy Days yardage since it arrived on Tuesday. But I realized that I haven’t yet shared my new Simple Zipper Bags Pattern, the Everyday Zip Bags. I’ve been meaning to put the directions for these three favorite bags into a stand-alone pattern for some time now. (I […]

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I met up with my Monday group...

The Harlan Valley Quilters

I made more Screen Play Totes

and then there were.....3

It is birthday season in my world,

there will be more to come !

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I met up with my Monday group...

The Harlan Valley Quilters

The daffodils just outside the door

have been putting on a show !

Happy Spring

I have been saving product packages

for the last year...

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 ...