Well at last I have actually been busy enough to post a couple of new purses here (yes, it seems that I'm either "in a rut" or "on a roll" but I'll worry about that later. Right now... fun fun fun, sew sew sew, and then where oh where shall I go to carry my new bags? I will need to go somewhere everyday if I keep this up, three new purses in the last 4 days, WOW ! Whew!!
A friend call yesterday and said "what ya doin"? (Texans never pronounce all of the word ya see) and I said "making a purse". "WHAT she replies, like you NEED another purse" (color me grinning) as I said "Its not about NEED"! Nope, if I want another one I'll make another one...now I'm going to have a garage sale in a few weeks (waiting for a cooler temperature; been 100 here and thats TOO hot) so I really need to weed out the closet and make a decision which handbags to part with...hmmmm,....or CAN I? Oh well, I'll worry about that later too.
Here are some pictures of the latest two purses. The "autumn" bag is foundation pieced using a modified dresden plate template and then quilted on my Janome 6600 (using mode 3 stitch 45) with a variaged thread in the needle. I made a wide binding for the top edge and the candy corn looks good enough to take a bite, lol!
The second bag I call the PinkBag is a cotton patchwork printed fabric of lime green, white, pink and a bit of turquoise. I quilted around the patchwork design(s) of the fabric with hot pink thread (using mode 2 stitch 47) and then decided to have a go at doing some embellishing on the pattern using seed beads. Hopefully that shows well enough in the photos to be seen.
Now I guess I'll have to go to Wally World to carry the purses; how many trips to WW can I make?
5 comments:
Judy, they both are lovely. The pink purse is so girl-y - just a delightful thing. Far too nice for Wally World - I say take a swing through Kohl's with one that nice. LOL Wanda in Edmonton
Thanks Wanda, great idea! I'm going to meet some friends for lunch today and the pink purse is loaded and ready to go... off to fiesta land (we are going for Mexican food!) I'll see if it survives (maybe the spilled salsa won't show up on this one, 'eh?)
Kohl's might be the next outing though.
Judy
You amaze me! And I love the sewing room. I only have about a 9 X 9 to work with and am struggling to figure it all out! Could knock out a wall into a bedroom, but my daughter uses it when she comes home to visit. Could leave a day bed available though! This was her idea, so no problem there! Love your commentary as well! Very delightful!
Carolyn in Utah 6600 group
Thank you Carolyn. The sewing room has evolved (several times!) and I am finally able to move around in it even though it is quite crowded.
I used to live in an apartment and so I KNOW what you are going through trying to maintain room for visiting daughter and still have a sewing space.
Love your purses they look great! And the machine is a honey.
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