Black, White & a POP! of Color DQ

Last month I joined in on the September DQ swap over on the Quilting Board.  Our optional theme was

Black & White with a Pop of Color.

First I thought that I would do some

Wonky Stars

as I had just demostrated them at my guild meeting.

But nah,

I want to make something a bit bigger.

Then I thought

Single Irish Chain.

No, that's not it either.

So I put it out of my mind for a time

while I worked on the supply list for the workshop

I'm leading for guild this coming Saturday...

the Jelly Roll Race.

That's it!

I'll do a miniature JRR!

It took me a while to figure out the math

to get the size I wanted,

and then I began grabbing my black & whites &

my POP! of color & started cutting.

It went to together so quickly.

And I liked it soooo much

it was hard to send it away to my partner!

Taaaa-Daaaaaah~!!!

Even though I had good lighting,

the blue is not the right color in the picture.

It's really turquoise,

but you get the idea.

I just did a quick stitch in the ditch for the quilting.

I've decided I'm going to make a big one for myself now.

After I finish up a few more things I have stacked up!

sue

edited to add:  I'm linking up to the Clover & Violet Stash Project of the Month!

Little Zippy Bag Swap, part 2

This is the bag that I ended up making

for my swap partner:

I followed the tutorial here at

It's a Pretty Modern Life.

Her directions were very easy to follow,

although, while it was still

inside out,

it looked to me like it was going to have holes in it.
I figured I could hand sew them...

but once it was right side out

the holes disappeared!!

Just like magic!

I am very happy with how it came out.

I may just make one for myself now.

These are the crocheted bags I made

to send along with it.

The string bag was an experiment.

I wanted to try one with a round bottom,

but couldn't find a pattern for that.

So I made it up!

Not bad, since I've only recently learned

how to follow a crochet pattern.  :D

The colors don't show up well in the pics,

the light part is actually a pretty, pale yellow.

I also sent a package of 2 rotary cutter blades too.

Just because I was so late!

Hope you're having a great July!

sue

Little Zippy Bag Swap

A few months ago, I took a DEEP breath,

and signed up for a bag swap.

It was a bit scary, as it was to be a bag with a ZIPPER....

and not only have I not made many bags,

but I think I MIGHT have sewn in a zipper one other time.

And that was YEARS ago.

I looked at a lot of different tutorials and patterns online,

but I couldn't find one I was comfortable with at first.

I had sent an email to my swap partner, and didn't hear back from her for a long time,

so I sort of put it out of my mind.

Then I did hear from her, so I wrote back to answer her questions & ask some of my own,

and never got an answer.

And I forgot about it again.

Then I got a squishie in the mail!

Isn't it amazing?

I love it.

It's big enough to hold a cone of yarn,

my TomTom, a CD, and

a bunch of other stuff!

I've been using it every day.

One problem.

Now I'm totally intimidated

about getting the bag done to send back to her.

I looked through the pattern books at JoAnn's,

and bought a pattern for a laptop case-type bag.

But, they didn't have all the hardware to go with it.

So I started looking online again,

and I finally found one that I thought

that I could do successfully.

And I did!

But, it was a small bag,

and that intimidation thing kicked in again,

so I also made a crocheted string bag

and a small crocheted pouch

to go with it.

They should arrive by Wednesday.

(I had emailed her to let her know that I would be very late.)

So, after Wednesday,

I'll post pictures of what I sent to her.

I hope she likes them.

<sigh>

sue