August Give Away

I've noticed several blogs have a monthly giveaway, to entice people to check out their blog, so I am going to start doing this. Post a comment on the end of this post, before the end of the day on the 5th. I will choose a random number from the posts to win one of the change purses I made. Your choice of fabric from the posts yesterday and today. Good Luck!

Today's fabric choices are purple pansies, sunflowers, bright butterfly/birds, and thimble mice. These are so fun to make, I just can't stop! I still need to get some more snaps, I'm sewing a few on at a time. I had some beautiful Laurel Burch fabric in teal with horses, but the horses went the wrong way on the stripe, too bad. :(

We are getting ready for our dye workshop this weekend!! YEA!! The highlight of my summer. We are going to try ice dyeing, marbling, and as usual dye painting, parfaits, tie dye, & Shibori techniques. As much as we possible can in two days, so check back next week, when I post all the fun stuff we did.
Don't forget to leave a comment. Click on the word comment, just after these words.,

A Lil Bit 'O Fun

I've been playing with some small gift items, a change purse from a Valori Wells pattern. I made several with ladybugs, frogs, butterflies and cute sewing mice. They are quick and easy, and nice to have around when you need a quickie gift. I need to go buy more snaps, or start using Velcro for the closure.

I fussy cut the butterflies and the mice, and the only problem when using a directional print like the frogs, is they end up, upside down on the flap. The lavender leaf print was a Gelli Print I made with acrylic paints, I added some free motion quilting to it, to get more texture. None of them have batting, but there is a layer of heavy iron on interfacing.

There was a fun little zippered bag on a blog, and I kick myself because I did not write down the name of the blog. I thought I had saved it, but can't find it now. Any way, I used two of the pieces of discharged fabric I made with the decolourant, and lavender zippers. They were also very quick, but I wish they had some lining for a stabilizer, to hold their shape better. Maybe some interfacing will help.