Kid's Grommet Sacks

I'm a slow blogger. Sometimes it's a missed opportunity, but oh well.

I noticed on one of the blogs I follow (listed on the right), Moda Bake Shop is showcasing the "Back to School Grommet Bag." I made FOUR of these bags several weeks ago for a friend's booth but hadn't posted yet. Ended up not putting in booth so now I have four cute bags and no one to give them to! Any thoughts?

By the way--the 2 patterns are the same, yet different because I put my own "flair" to it; AND I did not find the pattern from the listed designer but it is eerily the same. Either way, it is an awesome and easy bag to make!

Now on to the pics...

Two Girl Sacks.

 


Larger grommets used on the Yellow sack but smaller grommets on the Blue sack.












Details: a "made by" tag in each and some fancy machine stitchin' on the ends of handles.

Boy's sacks:

 Detail: I love the rope used for the handle! And my signature "AN" tag.

Detail: I braided some rope for the handle, but I'm not satisfied with it. It's unfinished anyway so I'll change it.
Cute fishies inside though!

Signs of Summer

We have been having wonderful weather here although the past 2 days has been a little rainy. I snapped some random pics with my cell phone and thought I would share.

Loving the new hammock swing!

Sun Tea (and weeds lol).

Colorful flowers and Tomatoes (many more not visible).

Play BALL!

New hydrant and hoses always attached.

Iscream...

Uscream!

Flip Flops Follow up.

No...it didn't take me THIS long to do only 3 more flip-flops; but it has taken me this long to post a few pictures for you!

Here are strips in process...........

........and some finished products!

I have enjoyed them ALL already! Hope you like them!

Fabric Folded Flower Cube

Say THAT 3 times in a row: Fabric Folded Flower Cube...Frabric Floated Flower Cube...ah whatever lol.

I needed to practice my fabric folding techniques as I have been asked to give a short demonstration sometime this fall at one of our Portland Modern Quilt Guild meetings. (STRESS hehe). In the May meeting, we had a 5" charm swap. FUN! Do you want to know more about charms? Then check out Charm Squares 101 over at Oh, Fransson! web site by Elizabeth Hartman.

So I combined the two concepts and used some of the charms from the last meeting and decided to make a cube. Of course, I couldn't wait until I had run to the store to get the stuffing to make this post-- But you can get the idea from these pictures*...

The main colors are black, red, and white. The background color of the plain two sides are a light blue.

In the center of each flower, I stitched on a flower bead and yellow seed bead as shown in picture below.

The finished cube is about 4.5" square or so. I'm thinking of making it, and some of the others which I will be sewing, the fun giveaways during my presentation. We'll see!

*Disclaimer: Pics are from cell camera. Hope to get a camera sometime. :-)

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Flip-flops in need of Sun!

I am preparing my summer shoe collection--customized flip-flops. I have seen many instructions and ideas on how to embellish your flip-flops with sequins, ribbon, beads, etcetera such as this article suggests to do. All fun and decorative ideas; however, not my style.

At the same time, I have been rummaging through some 4" square scraps of fabric in my craft room. None really match or have inspired me to any ideas for quilts. Then, voila! I read Alisa Burke's post.

I loved the artistic freedom that the post allowed for. It did not give specific directions on how to do it, but great guidelines and how she did it. So I jumped in and this is what I did:

This is my first pair--ready for the Fourth of July holiday.

I hand-stitched with embroidery thread as Alisa eluded to. I used a variety of colors to give it some character. Like this photo shows:

My favorite part happened on a whim! Towards the end of my stitching, it happened that the word "Freedom" on one of the fabrics used was cut off to say "Free".......I was able to leave it as a tag look!! 

I am so thrilled and motivated with the product and the process that look here at what awaits me.........

But it's MAY you say!

And I respectfully respond: "and your point is?!"

In the PNW, the weather has been...um...well...wet...no surprise there. But, the wind and temps have also been a little higher and lower, respectively, than usual. I'm still occasionally wearing my fleecy, fluffy coat outside. Definitely have not put the winter clothes away.

No complaints here as I have seen the beating other parts of the country (and even world) have taken! But the bears were a little grumpy, soooo..........

I finished 2 fleece hats that have been sitting in my stash all cut out and waiting for about 2 years now! They're very happy and warm now!