Firstly, "Happy Thanksgiving" to all my American friends! I hope you have had a wonderful day.
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Yipee!!! I have three small finishes to share with you this week!
On visiting Amanda Jane's "Finish it up Friday" Party a few weeks ago I spotted someone had made some small drawstring pouches for carrying vegetables from the supermarket instead of using plastic bags (and, I'm very sorry but I don't know who that was).
As I am mad crazy about not using plastic bags more than absolutely necessary, imagine my delight, later, when I found a scrap of net curtain fabric I'd "inherited" from one of my stitching friends ..... well, I just had to make some pouches of my own, didn't I ?!!!
I couldn't believe how difficult it was to get a photograph to really show off such a simple pouch!
The fabric wasn't easy to stitch .... it wanted to fray all the time! Good job there's only a tiny bit left .... I can't be tempted to do too much with it! Tee, hee ..... wanna bet!
I trimmed the edges just before machine stitching each seam, and I've used French Seams which will stop them fraying further.
In the next view you will see that even when filled with potatoes, tomatoes and lychees, it was still pretty difficult to photograph the pouches!
Oh, and yes, that's a new game bag in progress in the background which was meant to be in another blog post, but, since I neglected to take a picture of the pouches on their own ..... here they be!!!!
The other side will say Rummikub. Hopefully it will make it easier/quicker taking our tiles from the bag rather than having to turn them over and spread them all out on the table. You can find the tutorial for the Game Piece Bag over at Patty's blog - Elm Street Quilts ..... HERE.
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| Don't look too closely! The backing is cotton wadding and I am afraid my needle pulled the wadding through with every stitch! |
After being disappointed with the lint all over this piece I'm going to use interfacing on the other side so the same thing doesn't happen again!
These three little pouches are my first entries into Patty's linky party.
Anyhow, this is Jenny's! I love the way she finished it by adding a fir tree branch. All those who have finished their pictures seemed to complete them in different ways, and I wish I had pictures to show you, but I don't always have my camera with me!
These three little pouches are my first entries into Patty's linky party.
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Finally today, I couldn't resist sharing a photo from my Handicraft group.
Last year a few of us attended a Goldwork Workshop run by one of our members. I still haven't finished mine, and in fact if you have a look at my left hand column you will see how far I've got ..... no, wait, actually I have done more, must update the photo!
Another project to finish! No pressure, eh!
Hugs,
Barbara xxx
