This is a new sewing caddy I made the other day. I am doing a workshop for my quilt guild and I have been racking my brain trying to come up with something to make. Well, this is the product of me racking my brain. We may not even make them, but now I have a pretty new caddy to tote my things in instead of the zip-loc bag I have been stylishly carrying around. (I know, sad.) This thing is a good size. It will even hold a small iron, a 6″ X 12″ ruler and a clover iron and coffee cup. It also has 3 pockets on the outside and 5 pockets on the inside. I am going to try to do a tutorial on it as soon as I get caught up on some other projects I’ve been working on. Would you like a tutorial?
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Sewing Caddy
This is a new sewing caddy I made the other day. I am doing a workshop for my quilt guild and I have been racking my brain trying to come up with something to make. Well, this is the product of me racking my brain. We may not even make them, but now I have a pretty new caddy to tote my things in instead of the zip-loc bag I have been stylishly carrying around. (I know, sad.) This thing is a good size. It will even hold a small iron, a 6″ X 12″ ruler and a clover iron and coffee cup. It also has 3 pockets on the outside and 5 pockets on the inside. I am going to try to do a tutorial on it as soon as I get caught up on some other projects I’ve been working on. Would you like a tutorial?Cupcakes
This is the reversible pinafore I made for my friend’s little girl’s cupcake themed 2nd birthday party. I just love this little dress. What could be better for a little girl to wear to her party! I never know what toys to get for gifts and it seems like kids these days have so many toys anyway. I figured I go with this instead of toys. Hope she likes it.
Double Shewww!
Did you know this is my favorite purse? I love making this purse! The fabric combinations are endless and the flower just makes the bag. 
I have fabric cut out, ready to make more. They don’t use much fabric (a little over a yard, total) and once you master making the handle, they are easy peasy.
I also got this Bow Tuck Purse made today. The fabric is a little out of the norm for me. It is a custom order. People just love this fabric. This is the third one I have made like this. Can you tell that there has been a purse making frenzy in the “sweat shop”. Shewww…
As you can see, I’ve been busy. I just finished these. It is a custom order for a bride-to-be in Georgia. She is giving her bridesmaids these cute little clutch purses. She picked out the fabric. Didn’t she do a great job! Each clutch is monogrammed on the inside. I really enjoyed working on these.
I took a little field trip to JoAnn’s today.(always trouble) I picked up some cute cupcake fabric to make a birthday gift for my friend’s little girl who will be turning 2 soon. Her party has a cupcake theme and this got my mind turning on what I could make her for her birthday. (I love themes) I have a couple of weeks to get it done, so I’ll show you soon what I came up with. Now that the sample is done for the quilt class, I want to get back to working on Fletcher’s Wonky Star quilt. I have all the fabric cut out and ready to go. I got the backing and binding fabric in the mail the other day. I’m not making a big quilt, just one for him to cuddle with, so it should come together quickly.
Get’er Done
The Breast Cancer Quilt is almost done. I got it on the frame and quilted yesterday. I also got the binding sewn on and now I just need to hand stitch it down. I just did a little swirly thingy for the quilting (because that and random stippling are really the only two things I can do right now.) I got some pantographs and hope to get practicing on those soon. I have been really focused lately on getting things done. I have several things to make for customers and some personal projects to do and I have been sewing like a mad woman. I think I am hitting the wall and that it might just be time for me to take a little break. I say that, but I never seem to bring myself to that place where I feel I can take a break. I might need to have a personal little intervention. A Little Weekend Sewing
This weekend was busy as usual. I finished an order from a customer for these hats. She and her two sisters are going to the beach and she wanted these hats made for the three of them. I made them using Amy Butler’s Big Sky Hat pattern. They turned out really cute. I might have to make one for myself. 
Oh Thank You, Mr. UPS Man.
Look what I got in the mail yesterday. My new labels! I finally have pretty woven labels to go in all of the purses I make. They make me feel so “Big Time”.
What’s Next?
I still have not decided what my next project will be. I am itching to do something, but I just can’t decide what. I have a few projects to get done for customers and I would like to get them done before I meet with the surgeon next week. I am hoping that they can do my surgery soon after meeting with him and put me out of this misery. I have all my applique blocks ready to go, so that I can work on them after surgery. I am going to decided very soon what quilt to do next and I will let you know. In the meantime, this is a quilt that I also made for my sister’s baby. It is a little nine-patch. I never took a picture of it so she brought it back to me the other day so I could. I thought I would share it with you. 
I’m open to suggestions about what to make next if anybody has any.
The Pinwheel Quilt is Done!
I got the last stitch put on the binding last night and I got it all washed and dried before I went to bed. I am so please with how this quilt turned out. I used Heather Bailey’s Freshcut fabrics and the pattern, Tessellation from Sandy Klop’s Quilts for All Seasons book. The book is very good. Her patterns are easy to follow and it has several good quilts in it. I have an American Jane Recess jelly roll and I think I am going to make my next quilt using that. I made one out of her Wee Play jelly roll and it is my favorite. I just need to decide which kind of quilt to make. Decisions, decisions. What I really should do is work on my spiderweb quilt and get some blocks done on that before I start another quilt. And work on the Dresden quilt before I start another one. It is just so fun to start a quilt. My friend is making this quilt and I want to make it too. (Focus Gina, Focus.) It is amazing to me that I get any quilts done at all. Everyone around me continually inspires me with their quilts and I want to make them ALL. I hope everyone has a great weekend and enjoys a little sewing time. 
Quilting is Crazy!
If you think about it, it really is crazy. It is crazy to take perfectly beautiful fabric and spend hours cutting it up into little pieces. Only to take those little pieces and spend even more hours sewing in all back together, pressing it, pinning it, pressing it some more, and sewing some more. But by doing all these crazy things, I get to create things that look like this and I think, well …maybe it would just be even more crazy for me NOT to do it. I love when I finish piecing a quilt. I could sit for hours after it is done and stare at it, studying all the little pieces that went into it. It always makes me feel like I have completed something really special. The Pinwheel quilt top is done! and I am lovin’ it! I can’t wait to get it quilted and completely done. Hopefully, by the end of the week it will be. Hummmm… what’s next?