Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Teacher gifts


This is a dish/face cloth I made using a "red dress" pattern from the Monthly Dishcloths Yahoo Group - the picture is not great so it's a bit hard to see the dress.

I finished it and then realized that it had the same colours as the teacher bags I had made. So... E's teacher received 3 reusable shopping bags and a matching cloth.






Here is the picture of the cloth with the three bags. The fabric for these bags was purchased at Fabricland's big sale in May. Because it was a thin poly-cotton I ended up cutting a large rectangle and folding it before sewing so that it was a self lined bag. The handles are webbing from a bolt that I bought at Dress-sew in Vancouver in 1996 - and I finally used the last of the webbing on these bags.









This is another cloth I finished in May - its from a mystery knit a long so I had no idea what it was until I was done - actually when it was done I still didn't know what it was - mainly because I missed several lines of the pattern - it's 2 hearts then 2 joined wedding rings (missing a bit!!) and then another ring.

The yarn is some really nice cotton I bought at Spun - can't remember exactly what it was just that it was really soft - this took about 1/2 the skein so I need to find a pattern for the rest of the yarn.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Noticed anything strange...

I'm trying to update my blog to show all the things that I've taken pictures of - so I'll try to post things with the dates they were created - when you scroll through the blog you'll see a bit of time travelling.

So even though this blog was created in 07 - I've got postings from 2001 to present - basically anythign that has a digital picture.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Tote bags R Us

This weekend I decided to sew and this is what I finished:

1 - Yoga Monkey bag. Bought the cute fabric on eBay, lined with a remnant from Walmart, magnetic snap and a few pockets.

2 - Same pattern but used Dick and Jane fabrics from Len's Mills. Both these fabrics and the Monkey fabric and Michael Miller - love their cute prints. Magnetic strap but not as many pockets as I only had enough fabric to make the bag.

Pattern used is found here: http://artsycraftybabe.typepad.com/tutorials/pleated_tote_pattern.pdf

E saw the second bag and tried to claim it for his teacher - umm nope it's mine!! I think it will become a knitting bag. May need to make a trip to Len's next weekend to get more of this fabric to make the teacher something for the end of the year.

Pictures to follow as soon as they are taken