Our local quilt group has a new member, whom we call Longarm Michelle (because she is the only one in our bunch who has a longarm!), who gave us a great tutorial on how to make fabric bowls last month in our meeting.  Here are some of the fabric bowls that Longarm Michelle has made:

Aren’t they cool?  For our quilt group, Michelle went way over-board.  She purchased the clothesline rope that we would need, she got a bunch of honey buns from me (and bought some herself), sewed six honey buns together, made biased tape out of each honey bun string, sewed half of the honey bun to each of our clothesline ropes as an example AND she bought us all this cool pair of medical tweezers that has little claws on the end (this helps hold your fabric together while you sew it onto the clothesline rope).  What generosity!

Because my poor blistered hands weren’t cooperating on Saturday, I decided to just take what Longarm Michelle had done and create a mini-fabric bowl out of it.  The rest of the rope and honey bun will have to wait for another time when my hands aren’t in a mutiny with my ambitions.

Here’s what my completed mini-fabric bowl looks like (and yes, if you noticed, I used a lighter thread on purpose so I could see what I was doing and where my mistakes may be):