Top 5 BS Excuses for my Long Absence:
5. Kept typing in http with just one slash and couldn't get my browser to find this URL.
4. My dog ate my computer.
3. Someone was already parked in my cyber space.
2. Paralyzed by angst over whether to use Safari, Firefox, or Chrome as my browser
1. Too busy corresponding with new-found Nigerian banker friend to post to my blog.
Sew, back to business. Purses and quilts are now my new focus.
I accepted the challenge from the Modern Quilt Guild to use eight fat quarters of Riley Blake fabrics to make something quilted. I added some white fabric and this is my interpretation. It's been featured on the MQG blog and I just submitted it to the Lyndon House Arts Center 39th Juried Art Show. I'm waiting to hear if I'm accepted.
Then I took an online Craftsy course called "Making Leather Bags". While I didn't use leather, I followed the pattern in upholstery fabric and faux leather.
I'I'm not usually one to buy small amounts of fabric--especially when I don't have an idea as to what I'm going to use it for so I have quite a bit left. I also like to make one of a kind items so another red purse didn't appeal to me. Watch me eat my words because I still have another purse's worth.
This leaves the other side of the fabric. Enter beautiful granddaughter, Josie, with her modeling pose.
Now it's time to work on some leather. There are several leather jackets and skirts that I can use for re-purposing with some yummy lime green leather and bright blue lambskin in the wings.
For today, there's a jelly roll and a quilting method with my name on it.
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