I've been quilting!

After spending about half an hour typing all this out on my little phone I went to add a picture and I lost everything so I had to start all over again this time I'm going to try it I'm talking and my phone is typing or Google is typing whoever - but I still have to go back and edit it.

These are the last two crossbody bags that I finished for the preteen and teenage great granddaughters and I have one more left and that will probably be for the teen granddaughter . See that pink stripe across the bag? That's a zipper but without a zipper pull - I goofed and I wasn't going to take it all back out again. There are still three pockets that can be used.

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Last Saturday, I went to a quilt show with two quilting friends. It was okay - it was crowded but I don't mean by people. It was kind of a cramped space; it was in a elementary school you're going  down the hallway and there's vendors on one side and then you get into where the quilts are and that was smaller half of the gymnasium and I'm not sure if there were even 20 maybe 24  quilts by members other than the president  - she had her own section (that's another story) I did see one quilt there that I really liked. Well, two of them that I liked -  one I took a picture of because it's so reminded me of my brother and his wife and I had to take the picture and send it to him immediatel; I think they got a kick out of it.

Now this next one is one that both my cousin Cathy and I liked. I've been trying to find the pattern and haven't been able to but I'm going to keep looking.

 Then in the next 'room' (the larger half of the gymnasium) was their garage sale tables with different fabrics and patterns and quilt related or sewing related items that members have donated to sell I only went to two of those tables - one had fat quarters for a dollar each ( I bought 10) and then the next table was quilt patterns and quilt books for $0.50 each unless otherwise tagged - I got an Edyta Sitar book and a small pattern for a barn scene that you transfer onto fabric and then color it using crayons.

Then on Monday I met up with two other quilting friends for lunch in  Battle Creek -we didnt eat here but I got such a laugh out of it and had to take a pic. - Youngest daughter and I agreed that we'll have to go there the next time she comes home.

After lunch we went to a local quilt shop where the owner is retiring and apparently no one wants to buy the business so she's closing. I spent way too much - on patterns and a canvas panel.

I made this next one right away because I needed something for my front door.

Yes, this is one of the patterns I bought on Monday...started it on Wed. and finished it the next day. After I finished the door hanging I went and pulled out a UFO  - something I had started with three quilting friends, oh my gosh must have been at least 10 years ago, where we laid leaves out on black fabric - then we sprayed a bleach/water solution around it, let it set in the sunlight for a few minutes and then dunked it into another solution so that the bleach would stop working.

 I found some tie-dye type fabric that would work for the leaves themselves so I stitched the leaves on with invisible/clear thread and then they sat because I couldn't decide what to do with them.  On Thursday, I pulled them out and as you'll see, two of them are now placemats - there is a third one that'll work here on my desk as a place mat.

I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with the remaining three. I've pretty much used up the scraps of the fall themed fabric that I was using for backing and binding on the placemats (and the door hanging).

Well I think I've got you all caught up for now.

Take care.