1st SAL.....Peg, Dale and I committed to stitching Anni Downs - A Gardener's Journal in March. I blogged about this on my blog thinking maybe one or 2 others may join us and lots of girls indicated an interest so I decided to start this blog where we can all encourage each other to meet the goals set along the way....March 2010 -March 2011...........
2nd SAL ......well so many of the girls wanted to continue on with another project and some new girls joined us and now approx 91 girls are stitching Natalie Bird's Tis the Season. March to Sept 2011...............
3rd SAL....many girls want to stick with the SAL so now we have moved onto Anni Downs Some Kind of Wonderful - My Favourite Things Quilt.......Oct 2011-Oct 2012.........
Where are we now.....
4th SAL 2013...is numerous smaller projects from the previous 2 books Tis the Season and Some Kind of Wonderful plus some projects from Red Home by Natalie Bird approx 60 ladies stitching together.........
2014 we had the year off..............
5th SAL 2015..........inspired to continue we are doing another quilt project.....Anni Downs newest quilt Natures Journey.....
6th SAL 2017.............A Holly Cottage Christmas by Michelle Ridgway.......once again the pattern is in an affordable book so it is easy for everyone to join in...........and you can raid your stash for the fabrics........or lash out and buy a the whole lot........this SAL will be run by Fiona aka Bubz Rugz and Raewyn........
Chookyblue........

Sunday, July 7, 2013

JULY BAG COMPLETED

 After looking at the pattern I decided I did not want it to be a Christmas bag. It was also a bit smaller than I like so I have made it bigger. I had this star block left over from another project so decided this would be used for the back of the bag and then not be wasted. It is constructed the same as the pattern with a wider bottom and side panels to give the width I wanted.

I enjoyed doing the hexies for the front and did not make an embroidered front panel and so I was able to finish the back fairly quickly. I have also made the handles longer so I can have it over my shoulder when shopping. Now looking forward to next month, and will practice with the bag pattern as it looks a bit tricky and I dont want to cut into my good fabrics until I know I can do it.
Bye for now Jude from judesstuff

4 comments:

Anita : Shabby Quilt said...

Your bag looks great.

Susan said...

very clever adaptation.

Solstitches said...

Lovely bag and what a great use of an orphan block. Love how the back looks.
Margaret

Chookyblue...... said...

the star looks great on the back......love the dark brown.........