I finally finished my square bottom lunch bag last night. It looks big! There’s plenty of room for my tupperware and grapefruit. Yay, I’ll never have to bring my lunch in grocery store plastic bags again!
As I was putting this bag together last night, I realized that the thin quilting cottons are kind of translucent…which gave me the idea of making “light boxes” with thick and thin materials. I’ll have to play with that idea this weekend.
Happy Friday!
I got a couple of awsome swap packages this week (private swaps from craftster) and I just had to show them off.
Fabric from Finland (I think mostly vintage). I LOVE the one with the little brown trees! These will be incorporated into future quilt projects.
Totes from Sweden. The one on the left is made from vintage fabric. I realized that I was drawn to the one one the right because I remember these characters from when I was a little kid!
Is it me or does it seem like just about everyone in crafty blogland are making doll quilts (see here for example)? Anyway, this is what I did last night with the little 2.5″ vintage fabric squares I won from Ebay. I decided to group the patches by color. I don’t have a plan yet for the quilt(s) but it sure is fun to play with fabric squares!
I was supposed to pick up a dresser 2 weekends ago (a mid-century modern Craigslist find). It didn’t work out the first weekend because we got snowed out. I tried again this weekend and all I could get in my station wagon was these drawers. Whaaah!
I’m going to try again this coming weekend with my neighbor’s van. Third time is the charm right? It’s a gorgeous dresser with lots of storage…perfect to hold my vintage fabrics!
I started replacing my hand-me-down/found/IKEA furniture a couple of years ago with “real” furniture. Real as in real wood (not particle board), no assembly required, and dovetail joints (not those cam lock screw things). I’ve had pretty good luck finding great deals on Ebay and Craigslist and now I have a pretty good collection of mid century modern pieces. I think I’ll take some pictures and show them off here!
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