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.

Floral tote bag

Here is a bag made in 2005.

Remnant of floral corduroy from fabric land - original plan was for a skirt until I realized that the large print would have made a very unflattering skirt. Lined with dancing baby fabric from Len's Mills which was left over from making PJ pants.

I think I made up the pattern - looks like a simple rectangle - Can't it has been a while but I do know that pockets were added to the interior to fit my palm and cell. A clip was also added to hold my keys.

Pink FOE was used to attach the handles