Happy Summer Solstice everyone! Apparently I suck at keeping up with my blog, but in my defense up until the past week or so, I haven't done a whole lot!
When I went to the Circle of Friends retreat in April, my friend Christine was teaching a class on the Miranda Day Bag by Lazy Girl Designs it is a marvelous bag and extremely easy to make. The full color, step-by-step instructions make even the dumbest of us dummies (yes, i am the epitome of the girl who needs those "for dummies" books, hehe!) able to understand and execute each step. This bag is very heavy duty and stands on its own. It is fused with fleece and fusible interfacing. It has 10 pockets that go around the entire inside of the purse. I'm telling you it's fabulous and the pattern is a "must have" for all of us because this bag makes for a lovely gift. It makes a great diaper bag, a great purse or a great business bag! I cannot rant enough about it, so I hope you get the point that I love it! I've made three. On each bag, I did all of the quilting on all of the fabrics before constructing the bags. Here they are:
This is the small version:

"Pockets in the Round" on the inside:

Luna approved hehe:
Wooden handles with seed beads, purchased from Joann:

This is the 2nd one I made, this is the large version that the pattern teaches. I got the fabric with the peacocks and ladies from a friend in Australia. I love the blue fabric, it reminds me of the peacocks and the purple reminds me of the dresses the ladies are wearing. I think this tote is going on etsy :)
This is the 3rd one I made for a friend, I love muted colors!


Next up I had crocheted a baby sweater and made a baby quilt for my mom to give her friend at work whose daughter had a baby. [-WHEW! Side note: Google Chrome just crashed as i was typing this out GOOD THING blogger save drafts! i would have been so absolutely discouraged to retype everything. Not that i've done a whole lot of typing so far, but it's taken me over a month to even blog so i probably would've been like eh, screw it! LOL THANK YOU BLOGGER FOR SAVING DRAFTS!!!]
Here is the baby quilt. I have said it before and i'll say it again! I LOVE putting eyelet and minkee in my baby quilts. Eyelet gives it an heirloomish, timeless feel and the minkee makes it 'baby' This was given to a little girl. Yep, it has blue in it. I'm not afraid to use colors that move me at the time. I don't believe colors should be gender specific. It only limits you and with sewing and well, every other hobby in the world where the possibilities are endless why limit yourself? So yeah :) This is my interpretation of this little girl's baby quilt:
Close up of the eyelet and gingham, I line the eyelet with white cotton so that the batting does start to pull through the holes:
And minkee almost always is on the back of all my baby quilts unless the customer requests something else. This particular minkee has hearts imprinted on it:

Here is the sweater with a close up in the bottom right corner of the Beatrix Potter buttons I used on it!
On Thursday, June 18th my sister dropped off her 2 chinchillas: Hugs & Petey for me to babysit for 10 days while she is on vacation #1! I always look forward to babysitting these 2 adorable little guys, because well, they're adorable, comical and silly! I've had a blast babysitting so far. I have let them out at 9am and have been letting them stay out for 12 hours at a time! They're so mischievous! The white one is Petey, named after the bird in the movie Dumb & Dumber (haha! my sister Jess and I love that movie!) the dark grey one is Hugs.

Petey deciding which fabric he'll use hehe!

This was hysterical because they had been out for about 11 hours and decided to stop in their cage, grab a bite to eat and then they both sat there in the front of the cage resting for about 10 minutes! As if they were sitting there relaxing & talking haha! They're too cute!

Hugs climbed all the way to the top of my jewelry case pile... and it's pretty high!

Hugs inspecting the serger

My little chinese dwarf hamster Luna riding Petey for fun
weeeeeee!!!!!

Petey managed to get up on my sewing table and was hopping around up there lol!



4 comments:
hey hey! That's a lot of updating!!! I may have to come back and read it again in more detail!!!
I have never touched a chinchilla - are they soft!?!?! That fur looks so thick and wonderful I want to pet them!
WOW Lots going on for you. The Chinchillas look cute, but not the pet for me!
Hope you get your MacBook Pro...I am a "Mac" user, I've had my PowerBook G4 for 6 years and it is still going strong. Of course I want a new MacBook Pro just because I want the updated technology.
Amazing crocheted sweater and baby quilt.
Ali - oh my goodness, yes! Chinchillas are insanely soft! They make [very expensive] fur coats out of them :( :( :( They have the most soft fur ever!
Thanks Jody :)
Talia, the strawberries and plaid bag is just the cutest. I'm not too sure about the little critters, but I know you love them. I think it must be some kind of phobia I have. I bet you are over excited about getting your dream machine, Congrats!!!
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