I made my first purses back in 2002 and they were...eh.  So I put it down for a while but I've been practicing over the last year.  I made one in April that I am currently using and of course it's not quite as attractive and photogenic after months of wear but here is one I just completed.  My twenty-first!  I got this fabric on sale at JoAnns, it was $4 a yard and the lining is some turquoise cotton I got at the local quilt shop.  Inside is no particular interfacing (I can't remember...it was just laying around) and some warm and natural.  The only real issue I had was that I didn't get the innards quite the right size so I had to do some last minute trimming when it was already half-way sewed to the outside.  If that even makes any sense.

I can’t remember what all the fabrics are in this thing but the brown background with red roses is from the Queen of the Ranch Collection from Moda.

This is the dissappearing nine patch and I really like the way it looks, I like the colors I picked out BUT!  There’s always a but.  Just one block alone looks good, or in this case here’s four blocks sewn together:


But when I line them up next to eachother in the formation of say, a quilt, it starts to look really busy. 


What do you think?  What are my options?

Here’s a picture of the throw pillow I’m making to go with it.  I was orgionally thinking of making this a bedroom quilt but I think it may need to be smaller to accomadate the design.

Here it is!
I was commissioned to complete this quilt.  Maybe you can follow this weird story.
Last year a girl commissioned me to finish a wedding quilt for one of her friends.  She gathered nine squares from close friends of the bride and I put the quilt together and hand quilted it.
That girl is getting married (already has!) and one of her friends asked if I would make another quilt like that (a little bigger, 12 squares).
I'm a big fan of quilts for purpose and not art (I know, so shoot me) but I looove this one.  Al the pretty purple blocks really come together.

I did not take enough pictures of the detail and work that went into some of these blocks.  It's stressful to sew someone else's stuff together when you are worried about beads falling off and velvet stretching etc.  some of the embroidery is amazing.
The heart at the middle/bottom of this quilt is all embroidered!

I don't recommend using flannel backed satin for the backing and borders though.
all in all I'm happy with the way it turned out!

I bought this pattern and did View B.  The fabric is a very light weight cotton that I purchased from JoAnn on clearance for I think $2.88 a yard.  I bought 2.5 yds but only needed about 2 of those.  I made the final in a size 8 but according to the measurements on the back of the package I sould be a 12.  In real life I wear a 2 or 4 petite.  So sizing was weird to say the least.



I thought maybe it looked a little too baggy but in the pic it seems to look alright.  I wish I had an action shot to show you!

I got this book for christmas (from my mom and finished my first project from it sometime around Valentines Day, it took about three lunch breaks at work (whihc is about three hours. Here it is:

I started this quilt in 2003 when I lived in Florida and right before I first joined craftster...here's the QIP (quilt in progress): http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=3148.0

and here is where it is finally done! (I live in Oregon now and actually have a reason to use a blanket).



I have been using it steadily over the last two years and I have to say I am suprised on how well it held up because I used JoAnn's fabrics for the quilt top.  The batting was that fancy heirloom stuff and the backing was a used Goodwill sheet.   

Some of us are lucky enough to have a craft room in our houses/apartments.  I am one of those people.

Alright, I bought six of these silly pink plastic cups for $1 at the Dollar Tree, the rick-rack came from the Michael's $1.00 basket and I had the little daisey stickers in my writing desk.

I superglued the rick rack on the cup, careful to put the seams under the stickers which I also superglued on.

Right now I use this one on my desk at work and it holds pens, I also used some in the craft room at home.  One for paintbrushes and one for scrap thread (it sit's next tot he sewing machine).

ta-da!

here is a link to my picture since I'm not allowed to post it directly yet