Elephant quilt

Hi everyone,

Finally finished appliquéing all the little elephants on my second baby quilt today!

Now onto backing & binding it!

See pics below:

Bags - first attempt!

Hi everyone,

Happy new year.

Hopefully during 2013 I will be posting lots of projects to inspire you to sew.

I have Bern busy with Xmas and a short trip away to beautiful merimbula (NSW).

While i was away I did visit a market to look for fabric. I purchased some beautiful Japanese fabric. See pic below!



I also brought a small painting for my sewing/ study rm by a local artist named Helen Pearsall. Titled 'silk surprise'. This is beautiful & very different!

Pic of painting below:



Today I visited Spotlight as I received a voucher from my lovely friends at work as a farewell gift. I stocked up on some supplies, purchased some cute fabric, lots of accessories & a book on bags!

Book purchased is by Sue Kim titled 'Bags - the modern classic'.



This book inspired me to make my first bag!
I thought I better start with something simple so I decided to make my 4 year old daughter a little bag.

I googled easy bags & found a website:
www.sewingsupport.com

It took me around 3 hours tonight to make from start to finish. See pics below!


Fabric


Finished product! Spot the mistake??? I put the owls upside down on the front! I could not be bothered to un pick it. Lazy I know. Hopefully she doesn't notice!


Back!


Velcro attached! This was difficult to sew on! Took me half an hour just to do that!


Close up of the finished product!

Mel :-)