not a quilt quilt monday

Sorry nothing new quiltie to show today. I have so many things at the almost completed stage and can't take pictures of them yet.

As a result, I'm going to show another bag that I made. I had cute both of these out when we had our first bag night. Mom had commented that she would like a new mailbag for work so that is what I had planned to make.

I cut it out big; 21inches. I wasn't able to finish it that night so I took it with me on our holidays and got it finished there.

It is HUGE. I mean GIANT lol.



I didn't want the second one that big so I cute 6 inches off it before I sewed it together. I also added a pocked to the smaller one.

Here you can see how big the first bag is. Mom loves it; you can cram ALLOT of mail into it lol

is this the kind of iron

You put water into?

That was a quote from last night. And to protect the innocent(giggle) I'm not going to reveal WHO said that, but it was pretty funny. Or maybe we were just all overtired.

Anyway, last night Sarah invited a bunch of us over to have another bag making night. Cindy and I were both going to do the large patchwork bag from the fall issue of Quilts and More. Sarah and Marcia were making more of these totes and Alexa was doing a messenger bag



I really wish I had precut my fabric. I think it took just under an hour to cut all the pieces. Than I discovered after I had cut almost all my interfacing that it WASN'T fusible-ahhhhhhh. But than Cindy had the idea to sew the bag together and than put a whole sheet of interfacing on it, instead of per piece. I did that and it has worked great. Thanx for the great tip Cindy!



I didn't get the entire bag done. And it's a BIG bag lol. I used leftovers of Moda Chocolat(still my favorite) See how it looks like a fabric garbage can? lol



And here's the completed(mostly lol) bags.



Mine is on the left, than Sarah's two tote bags she made for her sons to take to their piano lessons. Next is Marcia's tote(LOVE this Pixie Belle fabric from Fabricland. Really fighting bringing some home lol.) Marcia also made a little holder for all her crochet needles etc; isn't it cute? Than we have Alexia's messenger bag(now that fabric I am not going to fight getting. It's a beautiful denim. That will soon be living in my fabric stash lol) And than Cindy's In Town Bag by Amy Butler

We were able to convince Alexa to model her messenger bag but she said we had to cut off her head lol




Cindy and I headed home at midnight. I have to finish up my bag lining and than shove the whole thing together. Sarah and Marcia actually started more bags when we left and Sarah completed one of these 4patch Swing Bags but I believe she made her's bigger. Check out the changes she made. It's posted on her blog.

Thanx for such a fun evening!!

snack saturday

Peanut Butter-Brownie Pie

1 pkg. (450 g) brownie mix
1 pkg. (4-serving size) Vanilla Instant Pudding
1-1/2 cups cold milk
1/2 cup Smooth Peanut Butter, divided
1 cup thawed Whipped Topping

HEAT oven to 350ºF

PREPARE brownie batter as directed on package; pour into greased 9-inch pie plate. Bake 30 min. Cool completely. Scoop out centre, leaving 1/2-inch-thick rim around edge and thin layer of brownie on bottom. Reserve removed pieces.

BEAT pudding mix and milk with whisk 2 min. Add 1/3 cup peanut butter; mix well. Stir in whipped topping. Spoon into crust; top with reserved brownie pieces.

MICROWAVE remaining peanut butter in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 min.; stir. Drizzle over pie. Refrigerate 2 hours or until pie is set.

card friday

fun times

Yesterday I headed down to Washington State with my mom and a family friend to visit some fabric stores and of course, Target.

First stop was Tangles Quilt Store; I haven't been to this one before. I LOVE this store.



Than off to Fourth Corner Quilts. Been here before and it's another favorite of mine.



Our final fabric destination, Joanns Fabrics. It's like the mothership calling us home lol! I had to take a picture of this display in Joann's lol




Here are the patterns I picked up



The yummy fabrics. The beige is for quilting, the rest are all for bags.



Wonder what I can do with these.....

wordless wednesday

pumpkin time

Fall is my absolute favorite season. I've gotten almost all my fall cards made and ready to mail out(yes, I seriously do that lol)

I love this card, but not happy that I didn't cut parts of it straight. And of course I didn't notice until it was too late to take it apart and fix

4 months until Christmas

Shocking isn't it? lol

This is a McKenna Ryan block of the month quilt, Once Upon a Star, now available at Hamels
Quilted with Winter White

Have you started your Christmas shopping/planning/crafting yet?