The PinkLady Sewtogether bag & an unexpected visitor

This past week just flew by,but then that is always the way when one is on vacation.

Recently my sister and I both had the same days off!  We planned a girls day out in the city,first stop,the leather store!  This is a bit of one piece I purchased.  It laid rolled up on my sewing room floor for a few weeks until…

the plan formed.  Pressing leather is not a good idea,a boning tool comes in very handy,as do lots of Wonder Clips!

Since this was my first time sewing with leather,I used cotton for the inside of the bag,and will probably continue to do so in future bags as well.  Mostly because the prints add a lot of interest/color to the bag. It also helps to cut down on the thickness when sewing it together.

A big plus,which you can see from this side shot!

The finished bag,Love how this turned out!  A complete success!  and my unexpected visitor…

Little Miss Audrey Lynn!  My granddaughter came for four days!!!

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Life has been busy as always,and although I didn't have time to post the last two weeks…

Bloom block #5 is all finished,pretty happy with how these blocks are turning out!

This is block #5 in the ugly sweater SAL most of these I have purposely made "ugly"but this one I am really loving ;)

Here are all my blocks so far for the freeform rail fence quilt that I have been working on slowly a few blocks at a time.  The two smaller blocks are mistakes from not remembering what size I was making my blocks!  Since I am using fat quarters and fat eights instead of the suggested yardage…so they will end up on the back of the quilt.  Midas of course had to get right in the middle of everything!  Only 19 more blocks to go…

Check out my IG on side bar to see what else I have been up to lately.  Have a great week :)!

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Wading through the dust and cobwebs

It is hard to believe that it has been around 8 ½ months since my last post here on the blog!  Life has been rather busy,with a cross country move,to the pacific north west,and the addition of...

baby Peanut,born on Dec 6th 2015.  She got off to a rough start,but is doing fine now!

Here she is,AKA Audrey Lynn,in one of her newborn photos.  Be Still My HEART,yes I am a proud grandma.

There have been some sewing starts/finishes,this is one of the latest.  A mini quilt for a swap over on Instagram.  It is all finished,except needing a label on the back.

One of my current projects,is the bloom sew along, this is my first block.  Last Monday was the first block,so when I get todays block done I will post it.

Sorry to all my readers for the overly long hiatus from the blog!  I hope to get back into the routine of posting once a week.   Mostly thanks to my daughter and nice who have both asked when I am Ever going to post again…if you are on IG you can keep up with me there as well,just search @apaisleysunflower

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piece by piece

Did everyone have a good mothers day?  Mine was the best,because I found out that in November or December my first grandchild will be arriving!!!  So Exciting…

Of course I spent some time sewing as well.

This is my Manhattan Miss bag,Aprils bag of the month pattern which also includes a Mamma size.  If you just like to pack around the essentials this is the perfect size,the mamma holds more.  I was able to incorporate my recent cross stitch into the flap!

Directly under the flap is a slip pocket,perfect for my sunglasses/reading glasses,or something of similar size.  The pocket print comes off as yellowish,but actually matches the green in the cross stitch.

Inside,another slip pocket.  Of course you can customize it however you like,but since I wanted a fast finish,I did not add the zipper to the flap for that pocket or any other customizations of my own.  Next time…

A vintage paper pieced travel trailer/camper for my Pillow four Seasons Swap partner (on Flickr).  The pillow cover will measure 20x20 when finished.  My plan is to add aspen trees for a forest setting.

This round in Super Swaps (also on Flickr) the theme was thread catcher or table runner.  Tiny paper pieced geese in sun prints by Alison Glass.

Almost done with the geese,these took me around 8 hours from printing out the pattern to finishing the last section.  The smallest ones are four sections long,and the center larger one is three sections long.

The thread catcher in progress,just need to attach the bottom!

A peek inside.  I ran out of the quilters linen so am hoping that my partner won't mind the two strips of sun prints at the back.

Another quick finish!  Yesterday I whipped up this foot pedal mat,after seeing one over on FB last week.  It works like a charm to keep my foot pedal from running/sliding away from me while sewing!  It is a bit on the longish side,so if I were to make another one it would be a couple inches shorter.  All it took was a binding strip and some gripper or shelf liner,to make it stay put.

I joined IG a while back (just keep forgetting to mention it in a post)  you are welcome to follow me there.  I am @apaisleysunflower over there :).

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Mama's got a new Bag!!!

Sorry for the rather long time between posts,but I seem to have misplaced my sewjo somewhere…I Really Need to find it as I have two swap items to get cracking sewing on Pronto!

Speaking of swaps,this is my Super Awesome tote bag received in round 6 of the Secret Tote Bag Swap!(over on Flickr)  Last time I showed you the bag made for my partner,btw she Loves it :)  I kind of cheated a bit when listing my three color preferences…because I listed green/aqua...

The top view,I am so in love with the jewel tone aqua prints that mamma fairy sews used!

I am not sure what pattern this bag is made from,but I Love love love all the pockets,there are 30 pockets in this bag!!!  Some are narrow and will be great for holding notions like marking pens,slim rulers,and such.  So a pocket for just about any notion you might have!

Check out the cute little dottie pincushion she made as one of my extras,it even fits around the narrow end of the ironing board. So I can switch it back and forth as needed.

The rest of my loot!  Isn't that little dumpling zippy pouch just adorable?!  The scissor lanyard coordinates perfectly with my cross stitch scissors,sweetness.  Some zippers,fabric,and an extra strap so the bag can be worn cross body style.  I was Sooo Spoiled :)


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