What I've been up to...

Sorry I haven't been around lately. I'm grumpy and ready for spring and I'm trying not to spread my bad attitude. ;)

Instead of actual productive things, I've been dinking around mostly.

I made another grocery bag:



Note to self: Jeans with stretch in them are a pain in the butt to stitch down as a straight accent piece:



Here's a blurry shot of the actual bag:



And I've been working on beaded ornaments. All. The. Time. It's mindless, and that's what I need right now.



Here's an idea of my progress. LOL. I'm too lazy to dip the ornaments, so I'm just throwing them in a vase for now:

Annies on Parade!

Finally posting pictures of the Raggedy Anns that I made for Christmas. For reference, the pink and orange ones were for the girls I nanny for and the green one is for my niece.





This one is a different pattern. All of the Annies have embroidered hearts (the girls say "Love you"...I forgot to put that on this one before she was stuffed!

Eek! A naked Annie!


With her dress:



Striking a pose in the car!



A few more pictures here.

Reusable grocery bags

I'm quickly tiring of the plastic grocery bags taking over my house (and of course, our curbside recycling won't take them! Boo!), and I found this pattern and decided to give it a try. (That site has several cute bag/purse patterns, by the way!)

This was my trial run, and it seemed huge, but I used it yesterday and it seemed to be fine. I'll probably make a few different sizes, but here's what I've got for now.

Made from stash quilter's cotton, interfaced seersucker and an old pair of jeans:


And it's fully lined, so hopefully it will hold up nicely: