Todays sewing session

Now I'm not sure I can keep up this posting every day, but at the moment I need to just to make me keep to my New Years Resolution.

Here is todays offering. A little drawstring bag.
I've been wanting to learn how to make one of these for weeks now, but you know me; it has to be a nice drawstring bag.
I didn't want any raw edges showing. (Well if a jobs worth doing...)

This one is lined. See what I mean about it being nice.
After a little searching about on the interwebthingy I settled on this tutorial from
Happy Things.

See how dinky it is.
Yes I'm very pleased, just need to alter the size now and have a play around.

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Yesterday I said I'd show you what had almost kept my fingers out of the choccy tin over Christmas. Well here it is..

It's a small lap quilt kit from Bucilla. I've had it years and years stuffed in a box in the loft, so I decided this year I really ought to have a go at completing it. I don't think you can see from the photo but I've hand quilted around the red circle and around the snowman's scarves. I also did around the banner at the bottom. Then I turned the backing at the edges and hand stitched it all down. To finish off I stitched a tube of fabric on the back so that it can be used as a wall hanging if desired.

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Did you notice the mini me in the bottom left hand corner?

As the quilt was a kit, it had printed instructions on the fabric along with this little mini picture of the quilt. Now I couldn't let that go to waste could I? So I scrabbled all the scrap fabric left over from the quilt and made it into quilted pot holder.

This is the back. I patchworked fabric as there wasn't enough left over of either to fit. Do you know I'm more chuffed with this little pot holder than I am with the big quilt!

Bedtime now. I'm glad it's Friday tomorrow, it's been along week. Hopefully child #2's school bus will be able to get through the snow; she's had a very long Christmas holiday this year!

Till next time

Fi x