Weekend Adventures

Sewing Projects this weekend including working on the Kelo Pink Bag, which I ended up putting on hold to rethink the bag's overall construction and some pattern modifications...I did have a change to complete Bag #7 & Bag #8...

The Fat Quarter Handbag with Purple and Orange from a tutorial provided by Jennifer Ladd on the Sew Mama Sew Site

and...

the Fredrika Slouch Bag with fabric I had purchased from Ikea a few months ago.



Spent Saturday afternoon with DH at the movies. We saw The Hangover which I've been waiting for days to see, I laughed from start to finish. Click on the link for the movie trailer...

And finally...although the temperature on Sunday reached up to the upper 90s, I managed to make a few Lampwork Beads, (using some of the glass DH had purchased for me about two Christmas' ago) before calling it quits and jumping into the pool...

Bag #6

Now that my sister's bag is complete, I figured it was time to start another bag. I sat in the kitchen for a little while yesterday morning staring at several patterns and was undecided for a least an hour. I gave up and asked DH to pick out a bag. He chose Bag A from the Butterick 4474 pattern (photo - bottom middle). While it took him 20 seconds to pick out the bag, it took me another 2 hours to decide on fabric....damn that growing fabric stash. Does anyone else have this problem?

Finally decided to use the Kleo Pink Cotton Print from JoAnn's. I originally brought the fabric online as my local JoAnn's was out and I made the mistake of trying to buy a coordinating fabric at the same time. Online, the fabric I chose appeared to be a light yellow print, but when it arrived it turned out to be beige. As I was cutting out the pattern I wasn't thrill with the beige fabric but I was too lazy to head out to the store to buy something else so I settled. Now that I have finished the pocket and I'm ready to attach the two layers, I really don't like this beige fabric.

What's a girl to do...