Dream List

I love this wire hanger...made for hanging just one completed block, how cute is that! And the tree block below is just my style!

Specially handmade

Just a little case/pouch I put together the other day to hold some little handmade presents for someone special. I used Japanese themed fabrics for the most part..

And a metal clasp closure, which are so easy to put in now that I've figured it out!!

And filled it with a few presents...felt bunny and bracelet from me, clay jizo from Julia and a little paper mushroom from Jordan!

For a bitty baby!

Our new to the neighborhood international friend's wife just had their first baby, so I worked on a couple little baby girl presents...Jordan and I were able to stop by and greet the adorable little one in person!

A quick to sew bib!

One of my favorite basket patterns from The Pink Penguin!

And a diaper clutch from The Noodlehead!

Taking from nature!

I love shells...and driftwood...and shells! I have jars of them, about a decade's worth of careful collection. I used our last gathering of shells to make a simple candle holder...using an empty spaghetti sauce jar, shells and a tea-candle!

Quilty Placemats

Continuing with my theme of 'Presents for Grandchildren!' I stitched up these two placemats for a couple more grandkids celebrating birthdays! (When one has many siblings, kids, friends and grandkids, one is always busy making something or other)! I used buttons to create holes in the e's and a...I thought it was kind of cute!

Here's a closeup of the free-motion machine stitching I did...

I did actually start off wanting to take pictures of the process...Here is picture one with the letters machine appliqued to the top strip... I used fusible webbing to iron the letters on, then a small tight zig-zag to applique them.

Next step was to sew the main body of fabric to the name strip...

Then I layered it with batting and a backing, and binding [Love the purple binding with little Japanese rabbits on it, one of my favorite accent fabrics!]

Then I walked away from the project, and forgot I was taking pictures when I came to finish it off!

Granddaughter presents!

Had some fun sewing up little bags to send my little grand-daughters in England. I really love making small bags, they are so fun to creatively use fabric and scraps!

I put a little surprise in each one too, to make it even funner for them!

Not sure if Suzy Zoo is popular in England, I thought it was British, but it's pretty popular in Japan, and I love the cute little characters.

Really funky scrappy pouch, with lots of pink, I hope she doesn't mind pink!!

And there they are!

Bento gift bag

Once in awhile I break down and purchase a pattern...and this little lunch bag is one of them. It's perfect, a little drawstring reversible bag with a flat bottom, I love it, and I really love the, I don't know, sort of 60's style print fabric? Made it for my step-daughter's birthday coming up in a few weeks.

Inside is a clover/butterfly print, really cute stuff. It could be lined with interfacing to give it some stiffness, but I like it without.

And using a bunch of scraps I snagged from my Mom's scrap basket, I made a log cabin block on a day I was bored (how the heck did that happen?? Me...bored...wish it happened more often!)

I used a really pretty yet pain the you-know-what thread to machine stitch the outer border...

...and finished it off with my leftover embroidery thread and a running straight stitch.