TESTING

I am intrigued by this Blog. A while back I got sent an email saying I could no longer load any pictures on here, so opened another Blog with Word Press. Now I find or at least I think !! I find, this Blog appears to have masses of space unused....what to do what to do?????

Bag made from a class I took last year with SewCalGal...

This is the back...

BAGS BAGS BAGS

I have been making bags for want of something to do, am hoping to sell some if not all of them over on my other blog, lots of other items on there too.....

http://needtheroom.blogspot.co.uk/

some of the bags --- 

SOMETHING OLD SOMETHING NEW

OK this is very old as you will see later by the date, it is not one of my best pieces, although at the time I made it, I thought it was the bees knees. I really ought to make another as I feel sure I could do way way better now. Plus I would probably quilt it this time round.

I was asked by my friend Di for pictures of it, so thought I may as well whack them on here for you all to see how I have improve!!!!!  At least  I hope I have!!!!!

It is called a Friendship Window...

 just diamonds held down with bias binding...

 I made the butterflies with wires in their wings so they could be 'posed'...

 base...

 showing one of the flowers and round each of them

I stitched the name of the person who gave that fabric...

 title plaque...

 oh me oh my, you have to laugh at this... this was in the days I didn't have a computer, I wound a piece of fabric into my little portable typewriter I had at that time and just typed my label onto it - look at the date - 1990 oh my gosh and it is STILL NOT SEWN ON, held there with safety pins... ROFLMSO

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This is old too - just a bit of fun...

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This though is NEW

I am just soooooo lucky, My friend Marian sent this

wonderful satchel to me today, she made it especially for me,

I am thrilled with it, perfect colours, perfect size, me to a tee...

 Marian you are a star, I just love my new bag to bits,

I cannot wait to show it off at the FoQ.....

Thank you so much

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BAG MAKING and more

Made a few bags for a competition, I did get carried away slightly!!!! The competition is on the PP Forum, so I thought I best give it a go, but I said I would alter them slightly as is my wont!! Here we go...

Made of yellow satin covered with lemon voile

sequins trapped between the two and if you look close -

you may see a bat or two!!! This is the front view...

the base...

 

side view...

All I could change on this next bag is the quilting at the top of it,

pretty boring,

but it did get rid of some really ugly fabrics in that chenille part...

I have made this bag so many times, I feel I could

almost do it blind folded, good one to do though,

fabrics compliments of Margaret in France - thank you,

this is the outside...

and this is the inside,

two looks for one bag...

in the magazine this was made in denim from jeans,

I changed that to Velvet and silk...

free motion flowers on the back and front -

yes it is my logo I use...

this shows the silk inside, the button was from my button box...

I changed the geese for this bag,

I just quilted them instead of actually making geese...

again the fabric is compliments of Margaret in France,

thank you...

I changed this to a colourful bag as it was just black in the mag,

fabric compliments of Di, thank you...

I had enough to make two -

oh yes I put a little pocket on the front as well...

I originally was only going to make one bag but had put on the forum

I liked six of them and didn't know which to choose, and Caz said -

"Make all six"

Your wish is my command!!

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I bought this gorgeous fabric off our market in the week...

close up of the Peacock..

close up of the Dragon...

Not sure what I will make with it yet, still drooling.

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On the PP Forum we do lots of swaps

this is my Postcard with the theme of RUSSIA

from Katy...

and this is a postcard [card type] which she enclosed with one above,

isn't it great? Thanks for both Katy.

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I too have been busy making swaps etc,

here they are all ready to go to the post...

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FINALLY, I got to grips with the challenge for MAY on the FMQ site. This month it was Leah Day as the tutor, she came up with these 'Foundational' patterns for us to do. As you know I am doing trees right through the year with the themes, and I got a bit stuck with these, but hope you think it looks like a tree!!!!

this is the front...

and this is the back...

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Sometimes when you are feeling a bit down,

something takes your eye,

and immediately you feel better.

THIS did it for me.

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

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RECYCLED DENIM

Well as I missed the competition deadline on the PP Forum, I am putting pictures here of the bag I made from the jeans Annette let me have to cut up. I am really pleased with the result, it is only a bog standard tote but I managed to use quite a lot of the original bits off the jeans, as you will see...

Front of the bag - I used most of the long leg pieces from the jeans for the main body of the bag, inserting a pretty polycotton fabric I had between the strips for a touch of colour, I quilted feathers all over the denim to stop it stretching and give it a bit of strength as these were well worn jeans....

close up,

the loop is from the back of the jeans waistband,

it is there for a reason...

voila...this is how the bag closes, the long tag going through the loop was inside the waistband of the jeans, it says BOOTCUT, I thought it was fun so used it, I first had to 'touch up' the embroidery as it had frayed a fair bit through many washes I guess...

You may be able to make out they are from NEXT,

the size too!!!

Just had to put one of my special labels on,

cheers Liz...

back view...

I sewed a pocket inside,

one of the rear pockets,

I have done it in such a way that is actually a double pocket...

tada.

Thank you Katy for coming up with the great idea.

Thank you Annette for the jeans.

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I forgot to put in the previous post that Ros had sent Rebecca these seeds, she can't wait to sow them Ros, she loves strawberries, so does her mum

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FUN BAG, REBECCA AND MORE

One of the girls on the PP Forum was going into hospital and Katy decided to organise something for her, she was thinking of making a bag to put the somethings in and I volunteered to make one for her. I had had an idea buzzing round my head for ages about a bag design so this was my opportunity to see if it did indeed work. Based on a Hexagon, I wanted it to have lots of pockets and be reasonably big enough inside. I made it as the old fashioned Dolly Bags were made, I was very pleased with the way it turned out, in fact I actually wanted to keep it for myself, so what I did so I couldn't keep it was to put a secret message round the points for Alison, that way it had to go.

Starting on the Green for go pocket it says...

For

Alison

love from

your

PP Forum

friends...

this is a view showing the inside of the bag...

this is the bag closed, love the look of it like this,

looks like beach huts in a circle...

showing the handle in 'long' mode...

and this is 'short' mode handles...

I hope she liked it along with the goodies which were put inside, which was

fabric of course -

I am going to put a tutorial of this on my other Blog eventually

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Thank you to everyone who has asked about Rebecca and how she is getting on, what a lovely lot you are. I can say she is doing remarkably well considering what her mouth must have been through. She is almost back to normal chatter, hahaha, and is managing to eat reasonably well she is finding it difficult to keep food to one side of her mouth at times, so I told her it doesn't matter how long she takes to eat, just don't put large amounts of food in her mouth, which at home is fine, but when she returns to school next week, they only have 10-15 minutes for their lunch..hmmm....we shall see.

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This is my fabulous Postcard from Marian on the PP Forum -

the swap was for Climate Change/Leap Year/Valentine,

it is all on there...think about it....thanks M I love it, clever girl...

 Some gifts arrived from my lovely friend Ros today,

these are for me, a Lavender sachet which is gorgeous, I have it by my

sewing machine as I am there most of the time, the hexagon is a coaster but

way too pretty to put cups on I have that by the computer as that is the next

place I am to be found, the Cosmos seeds will be popped in the garden soon...

 Rebecca received a Lavender Heart which she is going to hang in her bedroom and some Scottie dog cut outs, which I have my eye on......hahahaha

thank you so much Ros, you spoil us you know.

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Yet more stamps arrived for Love Quilts -

these are from Juliet on the PP Forum...

 and these are from my lovely little friend Susan from Liverpool -

can you spot the odd one out?????

 thank you girls, these will go in the post to LQ on Monday.

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Not sure if I have mentioned that on the PP Forum, Katy came up with an idea for us to use some recycled Denim. I had to ask Annette for a pair of her old jeans, which are here, cut up ready for use. I started my 'thing' today, one more hour and it would have been done, but I ran out of time so it will be finished tomorrow. Thing is though, I think I have missed the entry date as I have not been on the Forum for a couple of weeks, gave myself a holiday so to speak. Oh well, never mind, I shall finish it tomorrow regardless, shame to waste it now.

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I treated myself to some books from Amazon the other day, but I made a right hash of the order, had to get Annette to sort it for me tonight. Which she has, thank you Annette, sorry your mother is so thick!!!! hahahaha

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