Padded Wine Bottle or Glass Pipe Bag

This week I worked on a customized bag to carry your delicate glassware items, such as a wine bottle or a glass pipe. It has an ultra padded interior lining that is completely removable and washable (in case you crash your bike and break the bottle , in which case YOU will need washing up as well) . It holds a big bottle of wine or 16" pipe and will stand up on its own.

This is made from a pair of recycled jeans, appliqued with batik. It comes with a cute decorated back pocket and has an adjustable strap made from the waistband.. The lining has a drawstring and button to keep your wine safe and secure. Round padded bottom as well. The lining is 100% cotton double filled with hi loft poly batting.

Fractured Rose

The Art Quilt group at CCQ is doing a challenge with fractured photos.
We selected from a big bunch of photos, and in the end chose 2. 1 is a rose, which happened to be a photo I took at the Portland Rose Garden.











First I printed it the finished size, and drew around the petals to use them as a pattern.




















Then I painted each petal on white muslin using acrylic paints.
I cut them out and assembled them on parchment paper, and fused them together




















I fused the whole shebang to a piece of green fabric 17" square. Then I stitched around the petals with about 5 different pink threads.
We are going to cut them up later today, pass out the pieces and make a fractured flower from the pieces of everybody's work. FUN!!!

Reorganized Workroom

It took weeks. Larry said it had reached 'critical mass'. Every corner was crammed with junk. I relieved the pressure by throwing the bulky junk in the hall (batting scraps, upholstry fabric, quilting samples) Then mom went to the hospital and we stepped over it (and on it) for at least a week. I decided it needed a serious reconstruction so I got drawers, bins, pegboard, tubs for the art supplies, and I actually (gasp) vacuumed. (OK OK- I didnt vacuum, my daughter Josie did - what a babe!) Larry mounted stuff on the wall for me. Ian organized the pegboard! Here's the finished product.


Under the quilting machine table: art bin project boxes, drawers with batik FQs, tubs with scraps, tub-O-art supplies. Upper shelves - more unfinished quilts and dolls

Upper shelves - scraps & FQs (not batik) UFOs orphan blocks & novelty fabrics in the lower drawers. Rulers, thread & tools on the wall. YAY!!! Look! I can work at the desk.

Lil gadget bags

I started making these and they are FUN! Thanks MaryAnn for the idea.

These are made from a 7" X 9"rectangle of fabric (embellished or not),

a 7" zipper and some fusible batting.

Fuse the fabric to a piece of fusible batting. (I love that stuff!) quilt if desired.

Sew the zipper to the short side. stick a little strap at the top of the zipper. (I made them from 2" wide fabric turned twice to make 1/2" straps.

Sew the 2 ends wonky from each other, turn right side out and viola!

2 cousins and a half

Look at these 2 artsy funny boys.

Autumn in My Neighborhood

It stopped raining for a minute, the sun came out and lit up the beautiful leaves! The light was awesome so I snapped a bunch of pictures for posterity........ its raining heavily today so the leaves will be gone soon. Click the slide show on the right to see all the pictures bigger. Its about 1 minute.

Jungle Mania - For Koben

Quilt for Grandson. Sorta Kinda matches his brother's.
Jungle fun! 72 X 72 - good for bunks & camping. Its brighter than this in person and the back is scorching hot yellow flannel!




















Here's big bro with his quilt. They share a room so maybe it will be fun. The back of this is crosscut black corduroy. I got it dirt cheap a few years back in Canada, like $3 a meter and it is 60" wide. Too bad I didn't have an extra suitcase to buy the whole bolt!

HFD T-Shirt Quilt

I just finished this T-Shirt quilt for Marc my sorta son in law who is a firefighter paramedic search & rescue etc guy in Hawaii. He's donating it to the Sayer Foundation - they have a fund-raiser every year to purchase rescue equipment for the HFD. His HFD t-shirts are sashed with a batik denim (who ever heard of such a thing?)

Here's the helicopter. The blades are stitched in and don't show up as well as I would like.

Ginny & her Jacket

Here's Mom in her fun jacket! It fits all right but pokes her in the neck I think.

Ginny's Jacket

I few months ago I decided to make Mom a sweatshirt jacket. She is always complaining about being cold. I got this sweatshirt & 2 pairs of sweat pants to match (pink & purple) and proceded to chop up the sweatshirt to Beautify it.

I appliqued roses & leaves, and added a collar I purchases years ago for 10c at the Daisy Kingdom remnant room. It was fun, a little challenging and as usual - when the fun part is done (sewing on roses & collar) it went into a TBF pile - aka UFO pile, or P.I.G.S (project in grocery sack)

I thought I should finish it for her birthday. She was 88 on July 17. I am only a few days late. Here's the jacket. I'll get a shot of her wearing it on Thursday and add it here.

Here's the roses - fussy cut from some rose fabric + batik leaves. Fused & stitched.