Made a couple of simple elastic-waist skirts from this Kokka fabric that I was pretty excited to see in my local quilt shop. The fabric pictures a sweet little playground and schoolhouse with the French words “vie scolaire heureuse”, which, according to an online translator means “happy scholastic life”. Yes, this is still true for my kids.
Made some more kid-sized napkins. Now that we have done away with paper, we needed some more cloth napkins. I used this cute Jay McCarroll fabric and the tutorial that I described here for making the napkins. But I used mitered corners this time.
My bunnies are featured on Etsy’s How-Tuesday. If you’ve had enough bunnies for this year, bookmark it for next year or make the ears rounded and turn them into mice! Click here for complete instructions.
It’s spring, so I am again making bags with bamboo handles. I loved this one that I made last summer which took a lot of abuse, so I made another one last night with Anna Maria Horner fabric from the Drawing Room collection.
I think the heavier weight will stand up better and it is lined with a heavy duty canvas. There is a good tutorial here for a similar bag, but since I lined this bag I pretty much followed the basic construction from this bag, but added two rows of stitching on the outside of the opening. You still can’t avoid hand sewing the bag to the handles (ugh) but the whole thing came together in an hour or two. Sorry for the poor photo, but we’ve seen some rainy days here in Atlanta — which we desperately needed!
Lunch, anyone? Here’s a pattern that I’ve been tweaking. Hope to have it up in the shop sometime soon.
