1st SAL.....Peg, Dale and I committed to stitching Anni Downs - A Gardener's Journal in March. I blogged about this on my blog thinking maybe one or 2 others may join us and lots of girls indicated an interest so I decided to start this blog where we can all encourage each other to meet the goals set along the way....March 2010 -March 2011...........
2nd SAL ......well so many of the girls wanted to continue on with another project and some new girls joined us and now approx 91 girls are stitching Natalie Bird's Tis the Season. March to Sept 2011...............
3rd SAL....many girls want to stick with the SAL so now we have moved onto Anni Downs Some Kind of Wonderful - My Favourite Things Quilt.......Oct 2011-Oct 2012.........
Where are we now.....
4th SAL 2013...is numerous smaller projects from the previous 2 books Tis the Season and Some Kind of Wonderful plus some projects from Red Home by Natalie Bird approx 60 ladies stitching together.........
2014 we had the year off..............
5th SAL 2015..........inspired to continue we are doing another quilt project.....Anni Downs newest quilt Natures Journey.....
6th SAL 2017.............A Holly Cottage Christmas by Michelle Ridgway.......once again the pattern is in an affordable book so it is easy for everyone to join in...........and you can raid your stash for the fabrics........or lash out and buy a the whole lot........this SAL will be run by Fiona aka Bubz Rugz and Raewyn........
Chookyblue........

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Tis the Season bag

Hello my friends.
Hope you are getting lots of stitching done as I have.
A few days into July and my `Tis the Season` bag is complete.
I changed the stitching and made as a purse bag for me to use in December.
With a pocket for keys and another for anything else plus room for my wallet.


A day of rain so lighting is not that good.
I quilted the hexagon shapes on the back and inside the hexagons a 1/4"in. 
Heart shapes in the other areas.
Love how it looks.


This is showing that I used my blue `Frixion` pen to mark shape.
Then I stitched 1/8th inside line to hold my hexagons.
After that I was able to press as pen fades with heat!


Once that was done I used my cutter and ruler to cut shape.
Then I noticed that I had two hexagons  that blended in with other fabrics.
So I carefully replaced these with fabric used for the back of my bag.


Love my little bag. Now I will sort what I want to use for next months project.
Happy Stitching,
Clare.




3 comments:

Noela said...

Love your bag. Hugs.......

Susan said...

Lovely bag and colours

Chookyblue...... said...

nice bag.......didn't think of a pocket........